One could form hypotheses of course, but they won't be much of relevance here I think :)
Do you mean for this specific item or in general? The former makes sense, but the latter I'd find a little weird given how publically well-known it is that there are group differences (take educational attainment in the United States for example).
I don't know how important being white is there, but I also don't see much discussion of race in this line of articles, only gender geography age and politics.
Especially because left/right dichotomy smells particularly anecdotal here.
Now correlation isn't causation, but in this case the causal path is pretty clear. If you believe that the world is systemically racist, sexist, unjust, doomed to extinction and that half your friends/family are secretly evil fascists/Nazis, then we'd expect you to feel depressed. When people with those beliefs turn up more frequently in ER for self harm and suicide attempts, we have both a correlation and a plausible cause.