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

White Americans’ racial identity can predict their sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors, demonstrating an emergent trend of politics. However, when it comes to predicting support for political candidates, remains unclarified question whether the effects politics are determined more by candidates’ ideology or race. This article disentangles compares role Four studies using American samples consistently hypothesis, which suggests that predicts conservative politicians opposition liberal because ideology. The evidence is limited but Black Thus, this complements theories clarifies implications who might benefit from its growing influence.