Are Patriots Bigots? An Inquiry into the Vices of In-Group Pride

One view in the study of intergroup conflict is that pride implies prejudice. , an increasing number of scholars have come to view in-group pride more , suggesting that pride can be accompanied by a full range of feelings toward out-group. In this paper, we focus on a substantively interesting case of ingroup/ -group attitudes – national pride and hostility towards immigrants. We the relationship in two fundamental ways: first by examining the prejudice with various dimensions of pride, and second by embedding these in a comprehensive model of prejudice. We find that national pride is validly measured with two dimensions – patriotism and nationalism – two that have very different relationships with prejudice. While nationalists a strong predilection for hostility towards immigrants, patriots show no more than does the average citizen.