Thread by @profsamperry

🧵It's #LovingDay. Interracial families are what initially got me interested in white #ChristianNationalism. Our first study. We found this weird pattern: even though CN questions never mention race, whites higher on CN were more likely to oppose interracial marriage. Why? 1/6

Curious, we found the same pattern regarding transracial adoption. Whites higher on #ChristianNationalism were less supportive of people adopting children of a different race. Why?

These patterns indicate CN:
1) is racialized.
2) sacralizes rigid boundaries & social order. 2/6

For whites, we've shown indicators of #ChristianNationalism are read through the lens of white experiences & myths. Talk of "Christian nation/heritage" is heard as "our nation/heritage." In other words, CN questions have implied ethno-racial content: "our kind of Christian." 3/6

But white #ChristianNationalism is also about keeping boundaries & social order: everything in its proper place. Interracial families (via marriage or adoption), like immigration, blur the lines of who belongs where and with whom. It smacks of "globalism" and "one worldism." 4/6

When SCOTUS decided on #LovingDay, white (largely Southern evangelicals) who felt the nation was for "people like us" & folks should stick to "their kind" opposed it.

Today white #ChristianNationalist ideology still favors white Christian supremacy & rigid group boundaries. 5/6

Here are links to various studies I referenced in the above thread. All written with @ndrewwhitehead of course.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

doi.org/10.1007/s12552…

doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

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