Prior research suggests a link between racial attitudes and policy preferences when the policies are subtly race-relevant - e.g., conservatives report less support for policy positions that are perceived as helping minorities (or Blacks in particular). The existing literature usually interprets this relationship as showing that conservatives' racial prejudice is motivating their policy positions. One alternative explanation is that the relationship between ideology and policy preferences is driven more by liberals' than conservatives' race-consciousness. That is a correlation between racial attitudes and policy preference cannot, itself, reveal whether liberals, conservatives, both, or neither are motivated by their racial beliefs/attitudes. The goal of this study is to generate simple policy scenarios in which the racial implications are varied systematically between participants. We will test whether liberals’ or conservatives’ policy positions change as a function of the racial implications of the policy. The hypothesis is that liberals will be more sensitive to the racial component of the policy than conservatives will be. That is, liberals will be more positively oriented toward a policy when it more clearly advantages minorities (or Blacks in particular), and conservatives support for the policy will be less impacted by its racial implications.