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Description: The United States is fast becoming a “majority-minority" country in which whites will no longer comprise the numerically dominant racial group. Prior studies have linked whites’ status decline to heightened in-group solidarity and the feeling that whites, as a group, face growing discrimination. In light of these findings, we examine the extent to which a social norm controlling anti-white prejudice is now discernible in the United States. Drawing from a original survey measuring Americans’ reactions to racially-offensive speech, we examine second- order beliefs about the social inappropriateness of offensive statements targeting white Americans. We find that white Americans (in comparison to non-whites) are indeed more likely to profess a social norm governing anti-white prejudice. The pattern is most discernible amongst white Republicans whom we expect to be most fearful of demographic change. © The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.