{"id":51363,"date":"2017-02-01T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51363"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:23:48","slug":"on-the-precipice-of-a-majority-minority-america-perceived-status-threat-from-the-racial-demographic-shift-affects-white-americans-political-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51363","title":{"rendered":"On the Precipice of a \u201cMajority-Minority\u201d America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans\u2019 Political Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797614527113\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>On the Precipice of a \u201cMajority-Minority\u201d America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans\u2019 Political Ideology<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/pss\" target=\"_blank\">Psychological Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/toc\/pssa\/25\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 25, Issue 6<\/a> (2014-06-01)<br \/>\npages 1189-1197<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797614527113\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0956797614527113<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psych.nyu.edu\/craig\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maureen A. Craig<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.yale.edu\/people\/jennifer-richeson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jennifer A. Richeson<\/strong><\/a>, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> projects that racial minority groups will make up a majority of the U.S. national population in 2042, effectively creating a so-called majority-minority nation. In four experiments, we explored how salience of such racial demographic shifts affects White Americans\u2019 political-party leanings and expressed political ideology. Study 1 revealed that making <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s<\/a> majority-minority shift salient led politically unaffiliated White Americans to lean more toward the Republican Party and express greater political conservatism. Studies 2, 3a, and 3b revealed that making the changing national racial demographics salient led White Americans (regardless of political affiliation) to endorse conservative policy positions more strongly. Moreover, the results implicate group-status threat as the mechanism underlying these effects. Taken together, this work suggests that the increasing diversity of the nation may engender a widening partisan divide.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/0956797614527113\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Precipice of a \u201cMajority-Minority\u201d America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans\u2019 Political Ideology Psychological Science Volume 25, Issue 6 (2014-06-01) pages 1189-1197 DOI: 10.1177\/0956797614527113 Maureen A. Craig, Assistant Professor of Psychology New York University Jennifer A. Richeson, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology Yale University The U.S. Census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,8,26,20],"tags":[455,12246,12248,26109,26110,2201],"class_list":["post-51363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-california","tag-jennifer-a-richeson","tag-jennifer-richeson","tag-maureen-a-craig","tag-maureen-craig","tag-psychological-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51364,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363\/revisions\/51364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}