“This hostility against intellectual and cultural elites had antecedents in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s attacks in the 1950s, and arguably more generally forms a persistent streak in American politics.61 In terms of culture war” — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Alabama in 1927 alone, 27,701 men were arrested on misdemeanor charges and offered for sale by county sheriffs. In Blackmon’s estimation, “roughly half of… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Start with the first half of Phillips’ statement, the claim that economic issues favored the Democrats when government programs “taxed the few for the… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“the confluence of racial prejudice and conservative politics is the new racism. It’s a product of almost a half-century of ethnic discourse and coded… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“When the children were asked how many white people were “mean,” they commonly answered “almost none.” But when asked how many blacks were mean,… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Kevin Phillips also saw clearly that success lay in stimulating racial antipathies among whites across the country. For Phillips, if there was a regional… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“The Tea Party that reenergized the GOP in 2010 and that implacably attacked Obama turned out to be a familiar nemesis of liberalism and… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Reagan Democrats increasingly extended their antipathy from nonwhites to government as a whole. “These white Democratic defectors express a profound distaste for blacks, a… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“In the wake of 1984’s pummeling the Michigan Democratic Party commissioned Stanley Greenberg, then a political scientist and later a preeminent Democratic pollster, to… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“After 2012, Republicans controlled all 11 state legislatures of the former Confederacy, and their campaign tactics centered more than ever on depicting themselves as… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“We would like to believe that if the polity understood that race-baiting continues to be widely practiced, people would repudiate it. Yet many whites… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“The core insight of modern liberalism is powerfully simple: we all benefit from a society that provides for the economic security and wellbeing of… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Racial attacks on liberalism shifted the enemy of the middle class from big money to lazy minorities, and transmuted economic programs that helped to… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
