[PDF] Linking Politics to Racial Identity: Race Change and Vote Switching in the 2012-2016 US Presidential Elections | Semantic Scholar
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Although racial identity is usually assumed to be unchanging, recent research shows otherwise. The role of politics in racial identification change has received little attention. Using panel data with waves around the last two presidential elections, this paper reveals survey evidence of race change and its strong relationship with vote switching patterns. Across several models and robust to various controls, switching from a non-Republican vote in 2012 to a 2016 Republican vote (i.e., non-Romney to Trump) significantly predicts nonwhite to white race change. Among nonwhites who did not vote Republican in 2012, switching to a Republican vote in 2016 increases the probability of adopting a white racial identity from a 0.03 baseline to 0.48 (1490% increase). The systematic relationship is not due to measurement error, does not appear for the 2008-2012 election period, and makes theoretical sense in light of 2016 campaign rhetoric and trends in political-social identity alignment.

Perplexiglass posted about why non-white proud boys exist: https://hexbear.net/post/40759

switching from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 predicts nonwhite to white race change. Among nonwhites who voted Obama 2012, switching to Trump in 2016 increases the probability of adopting a white racial identity from 3% to 48%.

If you read the rest of the paper, it goes on to say that this race change was most significant among Hispanics and mixed race people. Which is not surprising, as they both look closer to white and have "white ancestry" that they could choose to identify with (for the record 'white' isn't an ancestry as white is highly mixed, and same thing happens in genomics where chuds choose to identify with their 60% European, rather than their 40% MENA ancestry)

"Race change" is least likely in Black and Asian people, probably because there is no conceivable way to consciously identify as white. However, I strongly suspect that they undergo the same process UNCONSCIOUSLY, but simply don't consciously identify as white because doing so would require a very high amount of delusion.