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Front Psychol. 2021; 12: 555667.

Making America Great Again? National Nostalgia'due south Event on Outgroup Perceptions

Anna Maria C. Behler

¹Psychology Department, N Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States

Athena Cairo

²Psychology Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States

Jeffrey D. Green

ⁱⁱPsychology Department, Virginia Democracy University, Richmond, VA, U.s.a.

Calvin Hall

ⁱⁱPsychology Department, Virginia Commonwealth Academy, Richmond, VA, Usa

Received 2020 Apr 25; Accepted 2021 Mar 5.

Data Availability Statement

The datasets presented in this study can exist found in online repositories. All reported study hypotheses, measures, and methods were preregistered through the Open Scientific discipline Framework, available at https://osf.io/mwh6n. De-identified data and report information tin be viewed at https://osf.io/6j4gm/. Some survey measures listed in the preregistration were not analyzed in this study and therefore non listed in this report.

Abstruse

Nostalgia is a fond longing for the past that has been shown to increment feelings of meaning, social connectedness, and self-continuity. Although nostalgia for personal memories provides intra- and interpersonal benefits, there may be negative consequences of group-based nostalgia on the perception and acceptance of others. The presented research examined national nostalgia (a course of collective nostalgia), and its furnishings on group identification and political attitudes in the United States. In a sample of United states voters (Due north = 252), tendencies to feel personal and national nostalgia are associated with markedly different emotional and attitudinal profiles. Higher levels of national nostalgia predicted both positive attitudes toward President Trump and racial prejudice, though there was no evidence of such relationships with personal nostalgia. National nostalgia most strongly predicted positive attitudes toward president Trump among those high in racial prejudice. Furthermore, nostalgia's positive relationship with racial prejudice was partially mediated by perceived outgroup threat. Results from this study volition help united states ameliorate understand how the feel of national nostalgia tin influence attitudes and motivate political behavior.

Keywords: national nostalgia, prejudice, intergroup relations, emotion, political differences

Throughout Donald Trump's tumultuous presidential campaign and tenure, journalists and scholars sought to explain his appeal to many American voters. In the 2016 presidential election, as many as nine million voters who previously supported Barack Obama, the commencement Blackness president, voted for Trump despite his inflammatory race-focused rhetoric (Skelley, 2017). One concept repeatedly emerged within these discussions as a mainstay of Trump'southward political appeal: that of nostalgia, broadly defined as a bittersweet longing for the past. Evidence of Trump's appeals to an earlier time in American history have been cited from the beginning of the 2016 presidential entrada through his failed 2020 reelection entrada, ranging from the salient nostalgic reverie of the "Brand America Nifty Again" campaign slogan (Samuelson, 2016) to more coded political rhetoric promising White, working class Americans a render to times that take been lost (Brownstein, 2016).

Some have hypothesized that such nostalgic rhetoric may capitalize on voters' latent feelings of threat to their economic welfare, or to the racial or cultural homogeneity of American culture (Brownstein, 2016; Smeekes et al., 2020). On a wide calibration, nostalgia focused on nationality is a prominent characteristic of right-fly populist party rhetoric, and prove from voters in holland suggests that the emphasis of stigmatizing outgroups and preserving cultural hegemony within cornball messaging is what explains the link betwixt nostalgia and correct-wing populist support (Smeekes et al., 2020). In the United States, several studies provide strong evidence of a link between support for Trump and group prejudice. For example, survey research has indicated that racial and anti-immigrant resentment strongly predicted voters' back up of Trump in 2016, more than so even than voter'south feelings of economic threat (Hooghe and Dassonneville, 2018; Mutz, 2018; Schaffner et al., 2018). Additionally, a longitudinal analysis of police reports evidenced a significant increase in detest crimes reported in Trump-supporting counties in the 6 months following the 2016 presidential election (Edwards and Rushin, 2018). Notwithstanding, no research has of yet established whether Trump'south nostalgic rhetoric may be associated with voters' attitudes toward racial outgroups. To this end, in this newspaper, we nowadays evidence that national nostalgia, an emotion distinct from personal nostalgia, is associated with increased prejudice as well as support for the populist messaging of Donald Trump.

The Sociality of Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a more often than not positive emotion that increases self-regard, attenuates self-esteem defense, enhances significant in life, increases perceptions of self-continuity, and lessens feelings of existential threat (Wildschut et al., 2006; Routledge et al., 2008). About people study experiencing nostalgia on a regular basis (Wildschut et al., 2006) and often structure their present in anticipation of experiencing nostalgia in the future (Cheung et al., 2020). Nostalgia is triggered in diverse means, including past music, scents, and reflecting on past momentous events (Barrett et al., 2010; Reid et al., 2015; Sedikides et al., 2015b). This emotion also serves vital relational functions, increasing social connectedness and perceived social back up (Sedikides et al., 2008).

The social connectedness function of nostalgia is a primary avenue through which nostalgia confers positive psychological benefits. Although cornball memories are more than likely to be evoked while experiencing negative impact (Wildschut et al., 2006) and loneliness (Zhou et al., 2008), the content of cornball memories evoked during these emotional states seem to human action as a "repository" of positive bear on, positive self-regard, and social connectedness (Sedikides et al., 2008, p. 306). The content of nostalgic memories is predominantly social, including recollections of close others, important social events, or tangible objects reminiscent of loved ones (Wildschut et al., 2006; Batcho et al., 2008). As a consequence of this, cornball memories seem to indirectly regulate these positive emotions past evoking and making more salient 1's symbolic connections with others (Sedikides and Wildschut, 2019). For example, nostalgia felt in response to loneliness has been shown to reduce perceptions of isolation and low social back up (Zhou et al., 2008). In organizational contexts, cornball emotions buffer the negative effects of low social support (due to procedural injustice) on reduced cooperation (van Dijke et al., 2015).

Importantly, those who are more likely to experience nostalgia (i.e., those loftier in personal nostalgia) are also more motivated to control prejudicial feelings and reduce their expression of prejudices against outgroups as a result of these positive benefits (Cheung et al., 2017). Four studies of Caucasian Americans examined the links between personal nostalgia and the expression of both blatant and more subtle prejudice toward African Americans (Cheung et al., 2017). They found that the link betwixt personal nostalgia and prejudice reduction was mediated past feelings of empathy, suggesting that the experience of nostalgia offers advantages beyond the cocky.

National Nostalgia vs. Personal Nostalgia

The link between nostalgia and sociality becomes more than complex when considering nostalgia felt for ane's grouping. Although nostalgia felt at the private level confers both intra- and interpersonal benefits, group-based nostalgia appears to accept a singled-out psychological profile from personal nostalgia. Group-based emotions, as singled-out from individual-level emotions, arise when individuals self-categorize with a social group and integrate the group into their sense of cocky (Seger et al., 2009). Furthermore, grouping-based emotions can differ markedly from their analogous individual level counterparts, such as when an individual might feel potent pride and happiness for their home squad while not feeling strong pride in themselves (Smith and Mackie, 2016). Furthermore, grouping-based emotions serve a regulatory function of strengthening positive attitudes and behavioral intentions toward both their ingroup and threatening outgroups (Smith et al., 2007; Seate and Mastro, 2015).

Group-based nostalgia—operationalized every bit nostalgia felt for events shared with i's ingroup, or collective nostalgia—tin can be experienced in a multifariousness of social settings, including organizations, school classes (due east.k., Class of 2021), cities, and nations (Wildschut et al., 2014; Smeekes, 2015; Green et al., 2021). Like private-level nostalgia, shared memories can include notable events, such as a special functioning (ring or orchestra), graduation solar day, homecoming (college course), or sports championships (city). However, different private-level nostalgia, group-based nostalgia can occur in the form of a longing for a past that individuals themselves did not experience, but rather one that was passed downwards through commonage memory (Martinovic et al., 2017). Additionally, collective nostalgia has been shown to increase positive attitudes also as an approach-oriented action trend toward the ingroup relative to an individually experienced nostalgic memory (Wildschut et al., 2014, Study 1). Collective nostalgia besides can increase group-oriented prosociality (eastward.g., willingness to volunteer or donate money to assist the ingroup; Wildschut et al., 2014; Dark-green et al., 2021). Collective self-esteem mediated this effect: recalling a commonage nostalgic event increased collective self-esteem, which, in plow, increased intentions to volunteer. Other enquiry has found additional ingroup benefits to commonage nostalgia, such a preference for domestic (vs. foreign) consumer products (Dimitriadou et al., 2019) and a promotion of collective political action (in Hong Kong; Cheung et al., 2017).

However, at that place are two sides to this coin. A preference for domestic products is also a bias against foreign products, and the promotion of collective political action was driven by anger and contempt for the outgroup (i.e., Hong Kong residents toward mainland Chinese; Cheung et al., 2017). Individuals who recalled a collective nostalgic memory (vs. an ordinary collective memory) were more willing to punish outgroup members who were unfair to an ingroup member (Wildschut et al., 2014, Study 3). However, in some cases, collective nostalgia might increment intergroup contact when individuals can feel collective nostalgia for a superordinate group (Martinovic et al., 2017). In a study of former Yugoslavians who had settled in Australia, Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs who identified with Yugoslavia (when these groups were bound together prior to sectionalisation and subsequent conflict) reported feeling more nostalgic for Yugoslavia and reported more contact with the ethnic groups that had resided in the sometime Yugoslavia (but not command ethnic groups).

National nostalgia is one type of collective nostalgia that is felt while self-categorizing as a citizen of a specific state, and is likely to be associated with item intra- and intergroup attitudes and behavioral intentions. Just equally personal nostalgia during times of modify and upheaval can facilitate coping (e.thousand., attenuating loneliness) (Zhou et al., 2008), national nostalgia—a reverie for a state'south good sometime days—may increase felt closeness to boyfriend natives during times of national stress or incertitude. However, nostalgic revelry at the national level may exclude other citizens, such every bit recent immigrants or minorities (Smeekes and Jetten, 2019). Studies of national nostalgia amid Dutch participants indicated that national nostalgia predicted prejudice toward religious minorities in the land (Smeekes et al., 2014) as well as prejudice toward Muslim countries (Smeekes, 2015). Notably, these outgroup attitudes were not predicted past personal nostalgia, which has been shown to exist associated with decreased intergroup prejudice (Cheung et al., 2017). This distinction between personal and national nostalgia may lie in the extent to which outgroups pose an emotional threat to the self.

National Nostalgia and Outgroup Threat

The intergroup threat theory (Stephan et al., 1999) posits that intergroup prejudice and hostility is largely explained past perceptions of threats to one's ingroup by an outgroup. In line with this theory, substantial evidence has found that intergroup prejudice is strongly influenced past both realistic and symbolic threat perception (Stephan et al., 2002; Mutz, 2018). Realistic threats are perceived threats to i'south bodily well-being, and typically include the domains of physical condom, political power, and economic security. Symbolic threats are more abstract, dealing with the cultural norms, ideologies, values, and traditions of one's ingroup (Stephan and Stephan, 2000). Realistic threats tend to be elicited from groups that are more economically powerful, whereas symbolic threats come most from marginalized outgroups who are perceived as highly dissimilar, and thus often inferior, to an ingroup (Stephan et al., 1999). Though these constructs are distinct and examined separately in the literature, there often is overlap between them, especially considering the demographic, economic, and social dynamics of some ingroups and outgroups. To be specific, when a marginalized minority grows in political, economic, or representative power, realistic and symbolic threats can be conflated (Craig and Richeson, 2014).

One salient factor in perceived threat for members of majority groups is the size of minority outgroups, with more threat being evoked by larger outgroups (Giles, 1977; Craig and Richeson, 2018) or even through messages endorsing diversity (Dover et al., 2016). In one notable fix of studies past Craig and Richeson (2014), White American participants who read that the Us population was condign more than diverse (relative to control conditions)—that the pct of whites was dropping—reported more than explicit (studies 1 and three) and implicit (studies 2a and 2b) prejudice toward non-White outgroups and pro-White attitudinal bias. One possible caption on why national and personal nostalgia are associated with different intergroup attitudes may be due to dissimilar levels of social categorization evoked, leading to differing levels of perceived threat. Personal nostalgia, which is associated with continuity of personal identity (Sedikides et al., 2015a) and evokes strong feelings of social connectedness, too has downstream implications for reducing anxiety and hostility toward outgroup members (for a review, meet Sedikides and Wildschut, 2019). In contrast, feeling national nostalgia is associated with self-categorizing at the grouping level, evoking 1'southward national identity (Smeekes and Verkuyten, 2015). Like to how personal nostalgia may be evoked when feeling disconnection at the individual level, national nostalgia has been shown to be evoked in response to existential concerns about one'south group-based identity, and may accept the benign effect of reducing feet past bolstering perceptions of grouping continuity and connection (Smeekes et al., 2018). For case, trait national nostalgia amid Dutch participants was positively associated with wanting to protect national ingroup identity (Smeekes, 2015). Similarly, a cross-national survey across 27 countries found that existential concerns nearly the hereafter of one'southward land predicted increased collective nostalgia, which in plow predicted greater ingroup belonging and anti-immigrant sentiment (Smeekes et al., 2018). However, when the presence or power of outgroups is salient (e.yard., chronically or by the rhetoric of politicians), national nostalgia may increase perceived threat. Moreover, ingroup continuity may exist threatened by consideration of outgroups (Smeekes et al., 2018). This may be particularly true for people whose views of the national by are distorted—for example, when whites in the United States feel a longing for a (whiter and more homogenized) by that never was. Thus, national nostalgia could increase this fear of the future, leading to increased prejudice.

With the exception of a subsample of U.s.a. participants included in the cross-national study of Smeekes et al. (2018), this stardom has not been examined in the United States. Additionally, no studies have directly examined this theorized relationship in the context of political beliefs. Given that the tumultuous Trump years emphasized a number of political issues associated with national and ethnic identities, we extended this line of research by examining whether perceived intergroup threat explains whatsoever plant relationship between national nostalgia and endorsement of symbolic prejudice.

National Nostalgia and Outgroup Perceptions in the Context of Political Messaging

Recent work has highlighted the prominence of national nostalgia in the rhetoric of right-wing populist political parties, and in particular its role in posing racial or national outgroups as scapegoats for perceived economical or cultural decline (Mols and Jetten, 2014; Smeekes et al., 2020). Political leaders ofttimes apply national nostalgia in rhetorical strategy by emphasizing the discontinuity betwixt a nation's past and present (Mols and Jetten, 2014), which then serves to evoke collective angst virtually grouping condition (Smeekes et al., 2018). A content analysis of speeches by correct-wing populist leaders in Western Europe constitute consistent themes of nostalgia for their state'south "glorious past" while denigrating the country'due south present, likewise as themes emphasizing that a) opponents of the party were the cause of this discontinuity between past and present, and b) increasing the country's strength and opposition to political party opponents would render the nation to its former glory (Mols and Jetten, 2014). By emphasizing commonage identity discontinuity, and so highlighting a potential scapegoat to blame for that discontinuity, populist leaders offer listeners an outlet for restoring psychological well-being by denigrating the outgroups believed to exist responsible (Smeekes et al., 2018). Indeed, national nostalgia has been shown to explain support for right-fly populist policies and leaders via the denigration of immigrant and racial outgroups (Smeekes et al., 2020).

Similarly, the function of intergroup relations was a strong focus of Donald Trump's 2016 and 2020 presidential campaign rhetoric¹. In the 2016 entrada, Trump borrowed Ronald Reagan's 1980 slogan, "Make America Great Again," and emphasized claims that the United States had deteriorated from its former status. Forth with these statements, he made numerous controversial statements on race, implying that changing demographics were, in function, to arraign for this decline (Pettigrew, 2017). This led political pundits to claim that Trump's supporters were primarily White Americans who felt threatened by changing racial demographics and cornball for a past, whiter version of the United States. Get out polls from the 2016 presidential election appeared to back up some of these claims, as White voters were the only racial demographic to support Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, doing then by a large margin of 20 percentage points (CNN, 2016)². Furthermore, several bookish studies conducted in the wake of the 2016 election further supported the notion that intergroup attitudes played an important role in voters' choice to back up Trump. Surveys conducted with representative panels found that support for Trump was near strongly predicted by negative attitudes toward the increased proportion of non-White US citizens in the population and anti-globalization attitudes (Hooghe and Dassonneville, 2018; Major et al., 2018; Mutz, 2018).

To build upon this research, the aim of our study was to directly examine how voters' propensity to feel national nostalgia may explain support for Trump's populist rhetoric as well as increases in racial prejudice in the Us following the 2016 presidential election (Edwards and Rushin, 2018). Furthermore, we hoped to highlight the unique role of perceived realistic and symbolic threats in shaping United states of america voters' political attitudes. Nosotros thought it appropriate to examine both realistic and symbolic threats given the unique role of Black Americans in The states history and the ever-evolving racial and ethnic demographics of the U.s., of which White Americans are condign less of a majority (US Census Bureau, 2020).

The Current Study

Nosotros examined the office of national nostalgia in propagating intergroup racial hostility above and across political orientation. We explored how national nostalgia relates to political and racial attitudes amidst voters who participated in the 2016 Us presidential ballot. We as well examined the interplay betwixt national nostalgia, pro-Trump attitudes, outgroup prejudice, and perceived outgroup threat.

Although previous inquiry examined survey data taken around the time of the 2016 presidential race (Hooghe and Dassonneville, 2018; Mutz, 2018), our data were collected ~1 year after the election, allowing united states of america to see how our participants felt after President Trump had been in office for some time, and whether the nostalgic message of "Making America Great Again" still resonated with voters. Minimal work on national nostalgia has been conducted, and to engagement, nearly all of this work has been conducted outside of the United states; thus, this research would explore the potential link betwixt national nostalgia and political attitudes likewise equally study the phenomenon in the U.s.a. sociopolitical landscape. In addition, we included a validated measure of personal nostalgia in order to better examine the association between personal and national nostalgia equally well as to assess whether each type of nostalgia might be associated with political attitudes.

Hypotheses

We tested i specific hypothesis and three exploratory inquiry questions, which were pre-registered on Open up Science Framework (https://osf.io/mwh6n).

Hypothesis i. National nostalgia would be positively related to pro-Trump attitudes (1a). No relationship was expected to exist establish between personal nostalgia and positive attitudes toward President Trump (1b).

Research Question 1. Will White or Republican identity exist positively related to pro-Trump attitudes?

Inquiry Question two. Will national nostalgia be positively related to racial prejudice?

Enquiry Question 3. Will the relationship betwixt national nostalgia and racial prejudice be mediated by increased threat sensitivity?

Method

Participants

An a priori ability analysis using G^*Power (Faul et al., 2009) indicated a minimum of 132 individuals would be needed to discover a small correlation of r = 0.09ⁱⁱⁱ with 95% power and α = 0.05. We recruited 252 US citizens who voted in the 2016 presidential ballot and identified every bit either White or Blackness (57.9% female, and 54.4% White). Participant age ranged from xviii to 79 (K = 36.34, SD = 12.68). Regarding political affiliation, 44.0% of the participants identified as Democrats, 25.4% Contained, 23.4% Republican, and 7.2% as Other. Participants were recruited through Amazon MTurk (world wide web.mturk.com) during the Fall of 2017 and compensated $0.30 for completing the survey.

Regarding our sample demographics, White individuals comprised approximately 74% of the electorate in the 2016 ballot (Pew Research Eye, 2018); withal, we purposefully oversampled Black voters for the purposes of achieving appropriate statistical ability for our analyses. Additionally, Republicans comprised ~31% of the electorate, with Democrats and Independents making up 35 and 34%, respectively. Thus, we feel that our sample is an accurate reflection of the 2016 US voters.

Measures

Personal Nostalgia

The Southampton Nostalgia Scale (SNS; Routledge et al., 2008) measured personal nostalgia, operationalized every bit how oftentimes participants experience nostalgia and how significant participants felt nostalgic experiences were to them. The calibration included seven items (e.thousand., "How valuable is nostalgia for yous?") rated from i (Not at all) to 7 (Very much). To build on past national nostalgia research (Smeekes et al., 2014), we apply a validated mensurate of personal nostalgia (proneness to feeling personal nostalgia).

National Nostalgia

The National Nostalgia Scale (NNS; Smeekes et al., 2014, Study 1) measured participants' propensity to feel nostalgia on the basis of one's national ingroup membership. The scale included iv items rated from i (Very rarely) to v (Very frequently) scale. The NNS used in this study was modified from the scale of Smeekes and Verkuyten (2015)^four to reflect American nationality [e.one thousand., "How frequently do you long for the America (Netherlands) of the past?"].

Positive Attitudes Toward Trump

In terms of political attitudes, we wanted to assess positive sentiment toward the President as related to the experience of nostalgia. Therefore, we used a modified version of the State Functions of Nostalgia Scale (SFN; Hepper et al., 2012), which measures the extent to which nostalgia confers the positive benefits of social connectedness, well-being, self-regard, and overall positive bear on. Each particular was modified to assess how participants experienced these benefits as they related to Donald Trump's presidency. This calibration consisted of 16 items (eastward.g., "Thinking about the election of Donald Trump makes me feel protected/happy/life is worth living"), that were rated on a one (Not at all) to five (Extremely) scale.

Outgroup Threat Perception

The Realistic Threat Scale (RTS; Stephan et al., 2002) was employed to measure realistic threat perceptions (e.thousand., of social or economic harm) of Blackness individuals. The scale was examined simply amongst White participants. The measure includes 12 items (eastward.g., "African Americans hold likewise many positions of power and responsibility in this country") rated on a ane (Strongly disagree) to seven (Strongly agree) scale.

Racial Prejudice

The Symbolic Racism Scale (SRS; Henry and Sears, 2002) was used to assess cognitive and affective dimensions of racial prejudice toward Black individuals. The measure consisted of eight items (e.thou., "It'southward really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if Blacks would only attempt harder they could be just as well off as Whites.") rated on a ane (Strongly disagree) to four (Strongly concord) scale.

Political Measures

Participants reported their political orientation on a calibration ranging from 1 (Very Liberal) to 7 (Very Conservative). Participants likewise chose which political party they most strongly identified with (Democrat, Republican, Independent, or Other). Participants then indicated which political candidate they voted for in the 2016 presidential election (Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, or Other). They then responded to the question "How much exercise you experience like we need to 'Make America Great Again'?" on a ane (Not at all) to seven (Extremely) scale. Finally, participants reported their country of origin and whether English was their native language.

Ethnic Identity Salience

The Multi-Ethnic Identity Measure out—Revised (MEIM-R; Phinney and Ong, 2007) was used to decide the centrality of participants' racial/indigenous backgrounds to their sense of self. The scale contains such as "I have a strong sense of belonging to my ethnic grouping," and each particular was rated on a scale of 1 (Strongly disagree) to 5 (Strongly agree) scale.

Demographics

Participants last reported their gender, age, and racial identity.

Procedure

Participants signed up through Amazon Mturk to complete an online survey almost their attitudes toward the past, race, and politics. After indicating their informed consent, participants responded to all written report measures and items in the social club described above. All responses were collected over a single, one calendar week period in the Fall of 2017 to avert history artifacts in the information. Additionally, all participants passed attending checks ensuring that they were properly attending to questionnaire items. For the purposes of this survey, missing more two attention bank check items indicated insufficient attending and warranted not-inclusion of that participant'due south information.

Results

Descriptive statistics and zero-social club correlations are displayed in Table 1. To exam our hypotheses, we conducted a series of hierarchical linear regression models and bootstrapped mediation and moderation analyses to assess the relationship between nostalgia (national and personal) and political and intergroup attitudes using SPSS 5. 20 and Hayes' PROCESS macro five.3 (Hayes, 2013). Following these baseline models, we also support our findings using path analyses employing maximum likelihood estimation using IBM AMOS v. 26 (Due to a computer error, the national nostalgia data from 72 participants were unusable, reducing the n for analyses including national nostalgia to 193, still above the target based on the power analysis).

Table 1

Descriptive statistics and bivariate correlations amongst written report variables.

Variable	one	2	3	4	5	6	vii	8	ix	10	12	13	fourteen	Grand/Pct	SD
1	Indigenous/Racial Identity Salience	0.91													iii.38	0.92
2	Personal Nostalgia	0.15**	0.92												iv.85	ane.19
3	National Nostalgia	0.18**	0.32***	0.90											2.85	1.xvi
four	Pro-Trump Attitudes	0.24***	0.08	0.49***	0.97										two.62	one.41
5	Outgroup Threat Perception	0.07	−0.01	0.44***	0.62***	0.98									two.38	one.52
six	Racial Prejudice	0.08	0.07	0.47***	0.63***	0.63***	0.84								0.34	0.23
vii	MAGA	0.14**	0.02	0.52***	0.61***	0.54***	0.65***	–							3.33	ii.72
8	Political Orientation	0.12	0.01	0.46***	0.59***	0.47***	0.66***	0.67***	–						3.48	one.76
9	Republican	0.08	0.01	0.33***	0.52***	0.35***	0.51***	0.60***	0.63***	–					23.four%	–
ten	Democrat	0.08	0.00	−0.28***	−0.35***	−0.25***	−0.38***	−0.47**	−0.53***	−0.49***	–				44.0%	–
11	Independent	−0.fifteen*	−0.03	0.05	−0.fourteen*	−0.05	−0.05	−0.02	0.02	−0.32***	−0.52***	–			25.4%	–
12	Gender	−0.05	−0.13*	−0.07	0.xviii**	0.18**	0.19**	0.10	0.15*	0.05	−0.12	0.10	–		57.1% (F)	–
13	Age	0.01	0.ten	0.08	−0.04	−0.20**	−0.08	0.02	0.01	−0.03	0.03	0.03	−0.03	–	36.34	12.68
14	Race	0.33***	−0.08	−0.12	−0.04	−0.07	−0.17**	−0.09	−0.07	−0.04	0.20**	−0.17***	−0.12	−0.17**	54.4% (EA)	–

Main Hypothesis

We first assessed whether national nostalgia and personal nostalgia would be related to pro-Trump attitudes in the ways previously predicted. National nostalgia and personal nostalgia proneness were entered simultaneously in step 2 of the model to identify their unique relationship with attitudes toward Trump. In step i of the hierarchical model, political orientation significantly predicted pro-Trump attitudes such that higher conservatism was associated with more positive attitudes of Trump, β = 0.59 t(192) = ten.08, p < 0.001. In step 2 of the model, national nostalgia was associated with more pro-Trump attitudes above and beyond political affiliation, β = 0.30, t(192) = 4.43, p < 0.001, supporting Hypothesis 1a. In contrast, personal nostalgia was non associated with pro-Trump attitudes above and beyond political orientation, β = −0.07, t(192) = −1.13, p = 0.259. Nostalgia predicted a significant proportion of variance in attitudes above and across political orientation, F _{(2, 189)} = 9.90, p < 0.001, RⁱⁱΔ = 0.06.

To examine this relationship in a consolidated path model^five, Figure 1 displays Path Model 1, quantifying the relationship between national and personal nostalgia and race, political orientation, ethnic identity salience, and pro-Trump attitudes. The model fit the data somewhat weakly due to the lower sample size [χ2(i) = 23.01, p < 0.001; CFI = 0.89; RMSEA = 0.34; SRMR = 0.03]. As shown in Model 1, Hypothesis 1 was again supported: national nostalgia predicted pro-Trump attitudes (β = 0.24, p < 0.001), whereas personal nostalgia was unrelated to pro-Trump attitudes (β = −0.08, p = 0.156).

Path analysis of relationships betwixt national/personal nostalgia, ethnic identity, and pro-Trump attitudes (Model i). Note. Path coefficients represent standardized estimates.

Enquiry Question 1

To assess whether there was an association between race, political affiliation, and pro-Trump attitudes, we ran a two (Racial Identification) × 3 (Political Party Affiliation) ANOVA. Racial identification was coded with 0 = White/European-American, 1 = Blackness/African-American (shortened to W/EA and B/AA going forward). Political political party affiliation was coded every bit 1 = Republican, ii = Democrat, and three = Independent and were analyzed using an indicator multicategorical contrast. For the purposes of this analysis, data from participants who did not identify with 1 of these three major political groups were excluded. The model included 59 Republicans (34 W/EA, 25 B/AA), 111 Democrats (48 W/EA, 63 B/AA), and 64 Independents (44 Westward/EA, 24 B/AA). The factorial model found that political political party amalgamation was the only meaning predictor of holding positive attitudes toward President Trump, F _{(2, 228)} = 47.73, p < 0.001, partial η² = 0.thirty, with Republicans (M = iii.94, SD = 1.22) more in favor of the president than their Autonomous (Thousand = two.06, SD = 1.26) or Independent (Thousand = two.27, SD = 1.06) counterparts. There was no main effect of participant race (Black or White) on attitudes toward the President, F _{(1, 228)} = 0.47, p = 0.57, nor was in that location an interaction between political party amalgamation and participant race, F _{(ii, 228)} = 0.05, p = 0.96. Figure 2 displays these results.

Relationship betwixt political political party affiliation and pro-Trump attitudes by racial identity. Note. Error bars represent 95% CIs around the mean for each subgroup.

To explore these results further, we examined whether ethnic identity salience, rather than race itself, may be an important qualifying variable in explaining pro-Trump attitudes. Nosotros examined whether political party (dummy coded with Republican = 0 to compare against Democrats and Independents) interacted with race (dummy coded with W/EA = 0) to predict racial identity salience (measured by the MEIM) using Hayes' Process macro v. iii.4 (model 1). We conducted a bootstrapped moderation analysis with 5,000 resamples, which indicated a pregnant higher-lodge interaction effect between political affiliation and race to predict indigenous identity salience, F _{(two, 228)} = 3.23, p = 0.041, R²Δ = 0.024. An analysis of the uncomplicated slope effects indicated that in that location was a stronger deviation in ethnic identity salience among White participants compared with Black participants. White Republicans (Chiliad = 3.47, SD = 0.92) reported that their racial identity was significantly more of import to them than their White Democratic [One thousand = 3.04, SD = 0.91, b = −0.43, 95% CI = (−0.82, −0.04)] and Independent counterparts [M = 2.89, SD = 0.92, b = −0.59, 95% CI = (−0.98, −0.xix)]; uncomplicated slope difference F _{(2, 228)} = 4.49, p < 0.001. In contrast, no significant deviation in racial identity salience was plant among Blackness/African-American participants; simple gradient divergence F _{(ii, 228)} = 0.63, p = 0.537. In fact, an assay of the simple principal effect of race among Republicans indicated that White Republicans felt their racial identity was equally as important to them as Black participants; M = 3.73, SD = 0.83, b = 0.24, 95% CI = (−0.16, 0.63). Black Democrats [b = 0.60, 95% CI = (0.37, 0.83)] and Black Independents (b = 0.97, 95% CI = (0.57, 1.36)] reported significantly higher ethnic identity salience compared with White Democrats and Independents (come across Figure iii).

Racial identity salience amidst Black/African-American and White/European-American participants of dissimilar political affiliations (Republican, Democrat, Independent). Annotation. Mistake bars represent 95% CIs around the mean for each subgroup.

Nosotros also examined whether racial identity salience qualified the human relationship between national nostalgia and pro-Trump attitudes. A moderation analysis using Hayes' PROCESS macro (model 1) indicated that higher racial identity salience somewhat strengthened the relationship between national nostalgia and positive attitudes toward Trump, only only amid White participants; ΔR ⁱⁱ = 0.03, F _{(ane, 77)} = three.94, p = 0.051. Among those low in racial identity salience, national nostalgia was unrelated to attitudes toward Trump; b = 0.27, 95% CI = (−0.03, 0.58). Those moderate [b = 0.43, 95% CI = (0.18, 70)] and high [b = 0.64, 95% CI = (0.31, 0.97)] in racial identity salience showed a stiff human relationship between national nostalgia and pro-Trump attitudes.

Equally a final examination of Enquiry Question one, a second path model (Path Model ii, Figure 4) was compared with Path Model 1 to again examine the interaction between nostalgia and indigenous identity (on pro-Trump attitudes), and the interaction betwixt political orientation and race (assessing its relationship with ethnic identity). When interpreting this model, information technology is important to note that path models are more often than not considered ineffective in examining interaction effects (Meyers et al., 2016). Path Model 2 showed much improved fit relative to Path Model 1 [χ2(10) = xl.47, p < 0.001, CFI = 0.95, RMSEA = 0.09⁶; SRMR = 0.05]. Likely due to the limitations of path models to compute interaction effects, in dissimilarity to what was shown in the Procedure model, the interaction between race and political orientation (measured on a continuous calibration) was not significantly associated with indigenous identity (β = −0.08, p = 0.210). Additionally, the interaction term between national nostalgia and ethnic identity was no longer associated with pro-Trump attitudes (β = 0.13, p = 0.607). This suggests that for White participants, greater national nostalgia was associated with increased indigenous identity.

Path analysis estimating interaction furnishings (race × political orientation and ethnic identity × nostalgia) on pro-Trump attitudes. Annotation. Path coefficients represent standardized estimates.

Research Question two

Nosotros next examined whether national nostalgia was positively related to racial prejudice. Bivariate correlations indicated that national nostalgia was positively associated with both anti-Black racial prejudice measured by the Symbolic Racism Calibration (SRS) besides as perceived realistic threat measured by the Realistic Threat Scale (RTS, see Table i). To further examine the link betwixt national nostalgia and racial prejudice, we tested whether racial prejudice moderated the link between national nostalgia and positive attitudes toward President Trump using Hayes' PROCESS macro (model 1) with v,000 resamples. A significant moderation effect was identified. Participants reporting higher prejudice exhibited a stronger relationship between national nostalgia and pro-Trump attitudes; ΔR ² = 0.05, F _{(1, 178)} = 19.60, p < 0.001. Simple slopes were calculated and visualized using the interActive online utility, and are presented in Figure 5 (McCabe et al., 2018). The relationship between national nostalgia and positive attitudes toward Trump was non-significant at low levels of prejudice (those at to the lowest degree −ane SD below the mean of SNS). Withal, for those moderate to high in racial prejudice (0, +1, or +2 SDs above the mean of SNS), national nostalgia positively predicted pro-Trump attitudes (see Figure 5). Interestingly, this effect was found separately for both White [ΔR ² = 0.03, F _{(1, 77)} = 5.93, p = 0.02] and Blackness participants [ΔR ² = 0.09, F _{(1, 97)} = 17.44, p < 0.001], but at that place was no significant three-way interaction betwixt national nostalgia, prejudice, and race (p = 0.14), so the results in Figure 5 are displayed for all participants.

Human relationship between national nostalgia and pro-Trump attitudes moderated by anti-Blackness racial prejudice. Note. Plots display simple slopes at −2, −1, 0, +one, and +two SDs abroad from the hateful of racial prejudice for all participants. PTCL, percentile.

Enquiry Question 3

Will the human relationship between national nostalgia and racial prejudice exist mediated by increased threat sensitivity?

Nosotros last examined whether the relationship between national nostalgia and racial prejudice would exist mediated by outgroup threat perception (measured past the Realistic Threat Calibration, RTS). A chastened mediation model was constructed using Hayes' Process macro (model 8) to appraise whether the proposed mediational outcome might differ between European-American and African-American participants. Every bit shown in Figure six, the model indicated a meaning indirect result of national nostalgia on prejudice through the mediator of perceived threat for both White/EA participants [β = 0.23, 95% CI = (0.12, 0.36)] and Black/AA participants [β = 0.22, 95% CI = (0.13, 0.32)]. The mediational indirect outcome did not differ by participant race; β = 0.07, 95% CI = (−0.15, 0.13).

Mediation of national nostalgia relationship with racial prejudice by outgroup threat perception, chastened by participant race.

To examine this question in the context of a path model, Path Model iii (Figure seven) displays the proposed relationships between national nostalgia and racial prejudice. Model 3 showed a moderate fit with the information, χ(two) = 65.80, p < 0.001; CFI = 0.79; RMSEA = 0.41; SRMR = 0.07). When accounting for political orientation, race, national nostalgia, personal nostalgia, racial threat sensitivity, and racial prejudice in a structural equation mediation model, national nostalgia straight predicted racial prejudice (β = 0.21, p < 0.001), whereas personal nostalgia did not (β = 0.03, p = 0.581). The relationship betwixt national nostalgia and racial prejudice was significantly mediated past threat sensitivity [indirect effect β = 0.xviii, 95% bias-corrected CI (0.x, 0.26)]. Interestingly, personal nostalgia besides showed a weak indirect result on national nostalgia via threat sensitivity, merely in a negative direction [indirect consequence β = −0.07, 95% bias-corrected CI (−0.14, −0.01)]. This suggests that greater personal nostalgia may weakly predict lower racial prejudice via reduced racial threat sensitivity.

Path assay of relationships between national/personal nostalgia and prejudice, mediated by racial threat sensitivity (Model three). Note. Path coefficients correspond standardized estimates. Indirect outcome of national nostalgia on racial prejudice through racial threat sensitivity was significant [β = 0.xviii; 95% bias-corrected CI (0.10, 0.26)].

Discussion

In our study, national nostalgia was associated with more positive feelings about President Trump, as well as increased perceived racial threat amongst White respondents. In contrast, personal nostalgia was unrelated to support for Trump or perceived racial threat. When assessed in a path model, personal nostalgia was actually associated indirectly with lower anti-Black prejudice via decreased racial threat sensitivity. These findings align with prove from samples outside the United States (east.g., Smeekes and Verkuyten, 2015; Smeekes et al., 2020) that personal and national nostalgia are distinct experiences with unique ramifications for intergroup attitudes and relations. Though our overall finding that national nostalgia predicted Trump support could reflect a potent semantic connection betwixt Trump and its 2016 presidential entrada slogan, it as well may bespeak to the appeal of Trump's entrada—and its right fly, populist sentiments—amidst those initially decumbent to feeling national nostalgia. To better respond this question, our next analyses investigated more closely the human relationship between national nostalgia and identity.

Our starting time research question asked whether identity was associated with national nostalgia. Nosotros constitute fractional bear witness for this idea, as Republican participants expressed greater positive attitudes toward Trump. However, there was no evidence of a relationship between race and support for the President. At commencement glance, this finding does not align with media narratives and political polling suggesting that Trump's messaging appealed mostly to White voters. However, although race itself did not predict support for the President, racial identity salience moderated the link between national nostalgia and pro-Trump attitudes. White Republicans felt more strongly continued to their racial identity than Whites who identified equally either Democrats or Independents. White Republicans also expressed significantly more positive feelings toward the President than other groups. In fact, they rated their racial identity as important equally Black participants in our sample. This is notable, as it evidences further support for the influence of White identity on political attitudes (Schildkraut, 2015). As members of the bulk group, White individuals typically are less likely to think of themselves in terms of race than people of color, for whom race is a more centralized component of their identity (Steck et al., 2003).

This finding suggests that the perception of demographic changes and threats to the dominant ingroup in the United states may indeed have been a critical factor in voters' choice to support Trump. Some research suggests that, in the electric current political climate, White Americans may increasingly identify with their Whiteness, as a event of threat resulting from shifting racial demographics (Jardina, 2019). However, there is an issue of causality, as these correlational data could bespeak that the perception of such a threat may increase the salience of one'south racial identity. This threat may be perceived more strongly by those for whom a White racial identity was already a more fundamental office of their self-concept. For instance, Schildkraut (2015) found that White Americans with higher White identity scores, along with heightened perception of bigotry confronting Whites and feeling a sense of linked fate with other White Americans, were substantially more likely to politically endorse a White candidate. This suggests that the threat to White identity, along with other related constructs, may influence political attitudes and may likewise offer an explanation on why leaders invoking national nostalgia may be then attractive to some individuals. This type of rhetoric typically emphasizes commonage identity discontinuity in order to foment anxiety about the land of the country while simultaneously offering a restorative outlet past identifying racial outgroups as scapegoats.

The part of intergroup attitudes was apparent when examining the relationship between national nostalgia and pro-Trump support. We establish that national nostalgia significantly predicted racial prejudice and that this relationship was mediated by perceived outgroup threat. Interestingly, this mediational outcome was institute amid both White/EA and Black/AA participants, although the lack of a significant interaction effect may have been due to lower ability. Additionally, we constitute a stronger relationship betwixt national nostalgia and pro-Trump attitudes among those who reported more prejudice toward Black individuals. These findings marshal with prove that grouping emotions motivate intergroup attitudes and, in particular, outgroup derogation when outgroups are perceived to be a threat (Smith et al., 2007; Wildschut et al., 2014). In particular, these findings marshal with converging evidence that the content of commonage nostalgia—what individuals perceive to be "the good old days" for their identity group—reflects salient sources of perceived threat (Wohl et al., 2020). This conceptual model, highlighting the content of collective nostalgia, also explains differences between the emotional outcomes of personal and national nostalgia. Whereas, personal nostalgia enhances feelings of belonging by evoking memories of positive intrapersonal experiences in the confront of ostracism or loneliness, national nostalgia may enhance belongingness past evoking positive thoughts about the "good old days" when ane'due south group was perceived to exist higher in status or less threatened by outgroups. It is also possible that national nostalgia, like personal nostalgia, may enhance feelings of continuity in its own way, by allowing individuals to feel connected to a time in which they believed their ingroup identity was less threatened or somehow stronger. Recent work supports the notion that, analogous to personal nostalgia, enhancing feelings of self-continuity (Sedikides and Wildschut, 2019), national nostalgia is linked to feelings of ingroup continuity (Smeekes et al., 2018). A written report across 27 countries found that national nostalgia was associated with stronger feelings of ingroup continuity (Smeekes et al., 2018); ingroup belonging but not prejudice (outgroup rejection) appeared to mediate this link. Since relatively picayune enquiry on collective nostalgia, particularly national nostalgia, has been undertaken, future work should examine these questions via multiple methods, particularly longitudinal and experimental designs, which can identify whether and to what extent self-continuity is enhanced by (or itself predicts) collective nostalgia in response to outgroup threat.

Constraint on Generalizability

These data were obtained from a cross-sectional group of US Mturk workers in the Autumn of 2017, so these results are most generalizable to American eye-aged populations (Huff and Tingley, 2015). Additionally, these considerations of intergroup threat perception and prejudice are virtually generalizable to White/EA and Black/AA social groups within the United States, and time to come assay of national nostalgia should continue to assess different ethnicities, races, and other relevant social categories.

Futurity Directions

These findings raise the question on whether national nostalgia stems from a desire by some to go dorsum in fourth dimension, due to perceived group identity threats. Future research should utilise longitudinal or experimental methods, such as manipulating identity threat, to examine whether national nostalgia arises equally a defense confronting perceived threats to 1'southward ingroup. Relatedly, it is but recently that national nostalgia has been manipulated (Smeekes and Verkuyten, 2015; Wohl et al., 2020), equally the majority of national nostalgia research has been at the trait level. Farther work evoking national nostalgia in experimental contexts would allow us to improve understand how this emotion interacts with intergroup attitudes, prejudice, and feelings of threat. Nosotros should as well continue to examine how the importance of racial identity, including white racial identity, plays a part in their political attitudes and bodily voting beliefs. The need for further research in this surface area has grown substantially in recent years, especially in light of events such as those that took place in Charlottesville in 2017 and at the U.s. Capitol Building in early 2021, in which big groups of White Nationalists gathered in events that ultimately turned violent.

An additional question to be explored is the extent to which national nostalgia operates within specific cultures and nations. Although Trump's presidential tenure has ended, the importance of these findings is not constrained just to the rhetoric from his campaign. Rather, the utilize of national nostalgia in political communication is widespread (Mols and Jetten, 2014; Smeekes et al., 2020) and has far-reaching implications. Future research should examine the role of national nostalgia in shaping attitudes toward demagogues in a diversity of settings and when because a variety of societal outcomes. Our findings suggest that national nostalgia may influence intergroup attitudes as a group-based emotion broadly through evoking positive emotions well-nigh ane'southward national group identity. However, the nature of the construct suggests it may also operate through evoking shared historical noesis and schemas almost one's grouping within a specific nation. The phrase "make America great again" and other nostalgic political rhetoric is particularly controversial in the United states considering minority groups have achieved significant advances in civil rights in recent history, and a call to return to a former time may imply a call for a return to a former and less egalitarian social hierarchy. Future research on national nostalgia should explore the nuances of this emotion and its expression amid diverse ethnic and social groups in dissimilar countries. Expressions of national nostalgia may evoke intergroup hostility to a lesser extent within nations with dissimilar histories.

Futurity research might also examine the extent to which perceptions of outgroup threat stem from realistic (e.g., economic) vs. symbolic (e.g., social/moral) concerns. Prior research has theorized that symbolic threats (rather than realistic threats) may be more than psychologically influential on voter back up for right-wing populist ideology, as concerns almost immigration and intergroup relations tend to emphasize the importance of preserving cultural homogeneity (Smeekes et al., 2020). Agreement the source and salience of perceived economic and cultural threats could help inform interventions to assuage anxiety, thus reducing prejudice toward outgroups. Finally, with the ever-evolving demographic makeup of the United States (every bit well equally many other countries), further work in this area should include individuals who identify with other racial groups beyond White or Blackness, and should also exist expanded to look at unlike identities such every bit gender, sexual orientation, religion, immigrant condition, social course, education level, and nation of origin.

Coda

National nostalgia, a form of collective nostalgic feel, is a promising lens through which to clarify attitudes, such as political and prejudicial attitudes, especially when combined with assessments of identity salience and perceived outgroup threat. Research to date on national nostalgia is relatively new. Although this phenomenon has been studied elsewhere (more often than not in European and Asian nations), this is the first written report, to our knowledge, to examine the Usa political mural. Personal nostalgia—a wistful longing for one's personal by—does not have the same associations with political and group attitudes, and only moderately correlates with national nostalgia. In contrast, national nostalgia, particularly in combination with white identity salience and outgroup threat perception, predicted both prejudice and political attitudes.

There may exist some irony in the possibility that national nostalgia may include beliefs for a past that never was; in this case, an America that was not equally white as some recollect. Even so, these national nostalgic feelings appear to be linked to important social attitudes, and thus are worthy of further investigation.

Data Availability Statement

The datasets presented in this study tin can be constitute in online repositories. All reported study hypotheses, measures, and methods were preregistered through the Open Science Framework, bachelor at https://osf.io/mwh6n. De-identified data and report data can exist viewed at https://osf.io/6j4gm/. Some survey measures listed in the preregistration were non analyzed in this study and therefore not listed in this written report.

Ethics Statement

The studies involving human being participants were reviewed and approved by Virginia Commonwealth Academy IRB. The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this written report.

Author Contributions

AB, Air-conditioning, and CH compiled and submitted all documentation for IRB ethics review and OSF pre-registration. AB and AC oversaw data collection and analysis. AB wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors collectively contributed to the conception and design of the study and assisted with subsequent revisions.

Disharmonize of Interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential disharmonize of interest.

Footnotes

¹We note that intergroup relations were also a salient theme in the 2020 election (e.g., the part of the Black Lives Thing motility); however, as our data were collected in 2017, we emphasize the 2016 election in this paper.

ⁱⁱThough a bulk of all not-White voters supported Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, the go out polls showed that the greatest differential was amid Black voters, who voted in Clinton'southward favor by a margin of 89 to 8% (CNN, 2016). Thus, we chose to use Black voters as a comparison grouping to the Caucasian sample.

³The Pearson correlation between national nostalgia and outgroup prejudice reported by Smeekes and Verkuyten, 2015, study 2).

⁴The authors would like to notation that this scale was non included in the original pre-registration, as it was published just prior to the time this study was adult. Withal, the decision was fabricated prior to data drove to use this validated scale every bit a more direct and statistically sound way to measure the construct of national nostalgia.

^fiveAlthough structural equation models are often used to model paths amidst composite variables (such as national and personal nostalgia), nosotros opted to use a path model for these analyses given that our sample was non large enough to justify inclusion of all individual items in the model.

⁶Although RMSEA greater than 0.08 is frequently considered marginal fit, RMSEA has been known to go inflated with sample sizes lower than 200 (Meyers et al., 2016).

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