Andrew Thompson
andrewifethompson.bsky.social
Andrew Thompson
@andrewifethompson.bsky.social
AP at UPenn in Political Science
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...
Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy - Volume 23 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
6) Check our sections on "Addressing Caveats and Drawbacks." We unpack quite a bit there.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
3) We build off of Gordon Allport's Scale of Prejudice and Discrimination to define the concept.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
2) Similar conditions that motivated flight now motivate fight:
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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."
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM