In-Group Love and Out-Group Hate: White Racial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Elections

Jardina, Ashley

doi:10.1007/s11109-020-09600-x

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“…Like other identities, White's racial identity heralds various types of sociopolitical attitudes, such as conservative political positions, desire to strengthen the racial in-group (Knowles et al, 2014;Lowery et al, 2006), and prejudice against racial out-groups (Morrison & Chung, 2011;Castillo et al, 2006;contra Jardina, 2019 , , which suggests that many White identifiers do not hold very much prejudice against racial out-groups). As such, intuitively, White identity has been found to predict positive evaluation of Donald Trump, a White conservative politician (Knowles & Tropp, 2018), and negative evaluation of Barack Obama, a Black liberal politician (Jardina, 2020).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…However, how is White identity related to evaluation of White liberal politicians and minority conservative politicians? Past observations described above do not point to a clear direction, as White identity is usually modeled to predict support for politicians that are either Black liberal or White conservative (e.g., Knowles & Tropp, 2018;Jardina, 2020). Theories on White identity do not rule out either possibilities: the positive effect of White identity on support for Trump has been theorized as something grounded on his political agenda that protects Whites' interest (Knowles & Tropp, 2018;Jardina, 2020), which assumes that White identity's effect is contingent on the politician's ideological orientation (i.e., "ideological").…”

Section: White Identity Politics: Ideological or Racial?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Past observations described above do not point to a clear direction, as White identity is usually modeled to predict support for politicians that are either Black liberal or White conservative (e.g., Knowles & Tropp, 2018;Jardina, 2020). Theories on White identity do not rule out either possibilities: the positive effect of White identity on support for Trump has been theorized as something grounded on his political agenda that protects Whites' interest (Knowles & Tropp, 2018;Jardina, 2020), which assumes that White identity's effect is contingent on the politician's ideological orientation (i.e., "ideological"). The negative effect of White identity on support for Barack Obama was (at least in part) because "as the nation's first black president, Obama challenged the nation's racial hierarchy by disrupting the succession of white presidents" (Jardina, 2020), and this rationale suggests that White identity's effect is contingent on the politician's race (i.e., "racial").…”

Section: White Identity Politics: Ideological or Racial?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Theories on White identity do not rule out either possibilities: the positive effect of White identity on support for Trump has been theorized as something grounded on his political agenda that protects Whites' interest (Knowles & Tropp, 2018;Jardina, 2020), which assumes that White identity's effect is contingent on the politician's ideological orientation (i.e., "ideological"). The negative effect of White identity on support for Barack Obama was (at least in part) because "as the nation's first black president, Obama challenged the nation's racial hierarchy by disrupting the succession of white presidents" (Jardina, 2020), and this rationale suggests that White identity's effect is contingent on the politician's race (i.e., "racial"). Consequently, it is unclear whether White identity is positively or negatively related to support for White liberals and minority conservatives.…”

Section: White Identity Politics: Ideological or Racial?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Politicians’ Ideology Matters More than Their Race in Determining the Association between White Identity and Evaluation of the Politicians

Bai¹

2020

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Despite historically being omitted as a socially invisible identity, recent studies suggest that racial identity can play an important role in predicting White Americans’ sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors, demonstrating an emergent trend of White identity politics in the United States. However, whether the effects of White identity politics are more “ideological” or “racial” remains an unclarified question. Four studies using White American samples show that the evidence consistently supports the “ideological” explanation of White identity, the idea that White identity predicts support for conservative politicians and opposition for liberal politicians for their ideology. The evidence is limited for the “racial” explanation, the idea that White identity predicts support for White politicians but opposition for Black politicians for their race. Thus, this paper clarifies the theories about White identity politics as well as implications for whom might benefit from the rise of White identity politics.

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Section: White Identity Politics: Ideological or Racial?mentioning

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Politicians’ Ideology Matters More than Their Race in Determining the Association between White Identity and Evaluation of the Politicians

Bai¹

2020

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“…This gap is surprising, given that there is an intrinsic link between Whiteness and estimations of Trump. Whiteness plays an increasingly important role in shaping Whites' political behavior as it relates to their evaluations of political figures and their voting preferences in the Trump era (Jardina, 2019(Jardina, , 2020. An important theoretical justification for studying White Americans' attitudes towards the media in the Trump era is that, demographically, the audiences of outlets that cover Trump in a favorable light are overwhelmingly White, too.…”

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White Media Attitudes in the Trump Era

Thompson

2020

American Politics Research

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Scholars and political commentators point to Trump’s war on the media since the 2016 election as an unprecedented attack on a vital check to Presidential power. However, little attention has been paid to the role that White audiences play in this critical debate. In this article, I examine the relationship between Trump, the media, and White audiences. Using data taken from the American Trends Panel, I show that affect for Trump is conditional on Whites’ selective partisan exposure to conservative news media. My analysis also shows that exposure to political and election news directly from Trump intensifies the relationship between Whites’ perceptions of media bias and their distrust of national news organizations. The findings provide a novel and unique contribution to the existing scholarship by demonstrating the causal effect of selective exposure to conservative media outlets on affect for Trump.

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How do you solve a problem like Maria? The politics of disaster response in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas

Willison

Singer

Creary

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World Med & Health Policy

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COVID‐19 is not the first, nor the last, public health challenge the US political system has faced. Understanding drivers of governmental responses to public health emergencies is important for policy decision‐making, planning, health and social outcomes, and advocacy. We use federal political disaster‐aid debates to examine political factors related to variations in outcomes for Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida after the 2017 hurricane season. Despite the comparable need and unprecedented mortality, Puerto Rico received delayed and substantially less aid. We find bipartisan participation in floor debates over aid to Texas and Florida, but primarily Democrat participation for Puerto Rican aid. Yet, deliberation and participation in the debates were strongly influenced by whether a state or district was at risk of natural disasters. Nearly one‐third of all states did not participate in any aid debate. States' local disaster risk levels and political parties' attachments to different racial and ethnic groups may help explain Congressional public health disaster response failures. These lessons are of increasing importance in the face of growing collective action problems around the climate crisis and subsequent emergent threats from natural disasters.

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In-Group Love and Out-Group Hate: White Racial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Elections

Cited by 63 publications

References 58 publications

Politicians’ Ideology Matters More than Their Race in Determining the Association between White Identity and Evaluation of the Politicians

Politicians’ Ideology Matters More than Their Race in Determining the Association between White Identity and Evaluation of the Politicians

White Media Attitudes in the Trump Era

How do you solve a problem like Maria? The politics of disaster response in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas

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