Racial group interests can compete in politics, and one way such competition may occur is when black candidates cue racial thinking among whites, leading to such competition at the ballot box. I address this hypothesis with a social psychological theory of identity, affect and racial cognition. I argue that black Congressional candidates cue white identity, as well as racial affects and cognitions, among whites. As a result, the factors of white racial prejudice and white race liberalism impact whites' voting participation. I argue that the factors of white racial prejudice are white identity, positive white affect, negative black affect, and racial resentment (symbolic racism). I argue that the factors of white race liberalism are black solidarity (whites who feel close to blacks), positive black affect and the rejection of symbolic racism (which I call racial acceptance). I employ a logistic regression model to analyze data from the American National Election Study from 1988 to 2000. The effects occur among all whites, as well as whites of both parties, and liberals and conservatives. Theory predicts that the factors of prejudice should operate among Republicans and conservatives, and the factors of racial liberalism among Democrats and liberals; but, I find that both sets of factors operate equally among members of either party, and the identifiers with either of the ideological groups.