Really fascinating that once a white respondent in my survey reaches a certain level of collective shame and guilt, maintaining existing immigration levels--even increasing them a little--just doesn't cut it.

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This collapsed one might be easier on the eyes (graphs are a work in progress)

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It's at roughly 1 standard deviation above the sample mean level of white shame/guilt that my white respondents shift from indifference about the eventual loss of America's white majority to expressions of happiness

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(Adjusted model controls for party, ideology, age, sex, and education)

I'll add that no other predictor in my dataset, not 'racial resentment' nor 'social dominance', is as strong a predictor of 'happy' outcomes as shame/guilt.

Sorry if these are stupid questions, just trying to understand exactly what I'm seeing. Did you ask them if they felt guilty or shameful? Was this study actually done or is this just a prediction?

Yes. Here are the question wordings (as well as the factor loadings) for each of the three ingroup-critical emotions I measured.

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White shame doesn't just predict lower warmth towards whites *relative* to racial/ethnic minority groups, it's also the best and only predictor in my data of outright rating whites in the negative (< 50) region of the 0-100 feeling thermometer scale

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This thread reminds me of this graph I saved.

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That's my graph as well :)