White Americans read negatively- or neutrally-framed projections of a
racial demographic shift, or a race-neutral control. They reported their
perceptions of relative racial groups status change, and the extent to
which they felt threatened by that change. A racial shift raised
perceptions of status change regardless of political ideology, but only
increased threat for White conservatives, decreasing threat for White
liberals. This pattern occurred in response to both the negatively and
neutrally framed racial shift articles.