Racial and ethnic division is a mainstay of the American social structure, and today these strains are exacerbated by political binaries. Moreover, the media has become increasingly polarized whereby certain media outlets intensify perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political alignments, and religious affiliations. Using data from a recent psychological study of the Alt-Right, we assess the associations between perceptions of social issues, feelings of status threat, trust in conservative media, and affiliation with the Alt-Right among White Americans. We find concern over more conservative social issues along with trust in conservative media explain a large portion of the variation in feelings of status threat among White Americans. Furthermore, more conservative social issues plus feeling of status threat significantly increase the odds of Alt-Right affiliation. Most surprisingly, however, trust in conservative media mitigated, instead of amplified, these associations. Implications and calls for future research are discussed.

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地位威胁、社会问题和保守媒体：看看美国白人和另类右翼

种族和民族分裂是美国社会结构的支柱，而今天，政治二元制加剧了这些压力。此外，媒体变得越来越两极分化，某些媒体强化了种族和族裔群体、政治联盟和宗教信仰之间的感知差异。使用最近对另类右翼的心理学研究的数据，我们评估了对社会问题的看法、地位威胁的感觉、对保守媒体的信任以及美国白人对另类右翼的归属感之间的关联。我们发现对更保守的社会问题的关注以及对保守媒体的信任解释了美国白人地位威胁感的很大一部分差异。此外，更保守的社会问题加上地位威胁的感觉显着增加了另类右翼从属关系的几率。然而，最令人惊讶的是，对保守媒体的信任减轻了而不是放大了这些关联。讨论了对未来研究的影响和呼吁。