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I think so, yuuup! I will say, too, that when we provide a nudge on national Hispanic growth, we see White fight sentiment generated in places with local growth (study 4). But it helps to add to the story here, as we note
Also another piece of mine on this www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
7) PS, if you're curious, reach out to me about post-2024 Election continuation of these analyses. I have a LOT to say, and have even validated the efficacy of White fight sentiment with more recent studies.
6) Check our sections on "Addressing Caveats and Drawbacks." We unpack quite a bit there.
5) Black growth on county levels at base drives up White fight sentiment through the prime. Crucially though, when the prime is paired with a discussion of Hispanic growth on a national level, we see upticks of White fight sentiment among White Americans in counties with Hispanic growth too.
4) Consideration of national racial demographic change, NOT state level, is what generates White fight sentiment. We identify this through a similarly worded prime on state-level changes relative to national-level changes.
White Flight and White Fight within Allport’s Prejudice Scale. Description: Allport’s Prejudice scale with identification of White flight and White fight within the scale.
3) We build off of Gordon Allport's Scale of Prejudice and Discrimination to define the concept.
“There goes the neighborhood” is a historical expression of White reactions to local Black increases, explaining discriminatory reactions in the form of “defended neighborhoods” (56) and for some eventual flight from those locales (57). We ultimately expect that nationally generalized ideas of local demographic changes will cause a similar, but wider-scale reaction along the lines of “there goes the nation.”
2) Similar conditions that motivated flight now motivate fight:
1) Overall, we find that White Americans who live in counties with White American decline or Black American increase *specifically* become more violent and antidemocratic when they receive a simple prime about racial demographic change. We define this as "White fight sentiment."
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
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so far the only explanation i've seen that doesn't smack of "if only she'd listen to me she would have won" is "global discontent with incumbents because of inflation and post-pandemic malaise + toxic information environments"