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Here's something @lindatropp and I are working on. In a nationally representative panel of 2,425 Whites, respondents increasingly believe that minorities are *working together* again their interests ("minority collusion"). 
The overall trend is driven by Republicans and Independents. Because the scale midpoint is 0, it's apparent that all political groups tended to reject the idea of minority collusion in 2015. By 2018, (only) White Republicans had come to endorse this belief.
Sample minority collusion items: "Different minority groups are willing to cooperate with each other in order to take power away from White people" and "Despite their differences, different minority groups regard White people as a common enemy."
Does it matter? We think so. Whites' belief in minority collusion predicts later support for the Alt Right movement and opposition to Black Lives Matter, controlling for party, political ideology, racial attitudes, and respondent demographics.
Fun fact: this research was inspired (partly) by a brilliant comedy routine by @harikondabolu.
(Come here all about it at SPSP 2019 in Portland, OR.)
