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> [“it bears mention that “illegal” is a misnomer: crossing into or remaining in the United States without proper authorization is not a crime, but rather a civil matter. Thus, contrary to Scalia’s preference, the Court majority eschewed the term “illegal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/it-bears-mention-that-illegal-is-a-misnomer-crossing-into-or/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

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## More by Ian Haney López

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/alabama-in-1927-alone-27-701-men-were-arrested-on-misdemeanor-charges/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“Start with the first half of Phillips’ statement, the claim that economic issues favored the Democrats when government programs “taxed the few for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/start-with-the-first-half-of-phillips-statement-the-claim-that/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/the-confluence-of-racial-prejudice-and-conservative-politics-is-the/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“When the children were asked how many white people were “mean,” they commonly answered “almost none.” But when asked how many blacks were mean,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/when-the-children-were-asked-how-many-white-people-were-mean-they/)

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> [“Kevin Phillips also saw clearly that success lay in stimulating racial antipathies among whites across the country. For Phillips, if there was a regional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/kevin-phillips-also-saw-clearly-that-success-lay-in-stimulating/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“The Tea Party that reenergized the GOP in 2010 and that implacably attacked Obama turned out to be a familiar nemesis of liberalism and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/the-tea-party-that-reenergized-the-gop-in-2010-and-that-implacably/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“Reagan Democrats increasingly extended their antipathy from nonwhites to government as a whole. “These white Democratic defectors express a profound distaste for blacks, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/reagan-democrats-increasingly-extended-their-antipathy-from-nonwhites/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/in-the-wake-of-1984-s-pummeling-the-michigan-democratic-party/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“After 2012, Republicans controlled all 11 state legislatures of the former Confederacy, and their campaign tactics centered more than ever on depicting themselves as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/after-2012-republicans-controlled-all-11-state-legislatures-of-the/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/we-would-like-to-believe-that-if-the-polity-understood-that-race/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“The core insight of modern liberalism is powerfully simple: we all benefit from a society that provides for the economic security and wellbeing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/the-core-insight-of-modern-liberalism-is-powerfully-simple-we-all/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“Racial attacks on liberalism shifted the enemy of the middle class from big money to lazy minorities, and transmuted economic programs that helped to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/racial-attacks-on-liberalism-shifted-the-enemy-of-the-middle-class/)

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> [“Dog whistling comes out of the South and its preoccupation with blacks, but it always involved equal opportunity racism, and never more so than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/dog-whistling-comes-out-of-the-south-and-its-preoccupation-with/)

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> [“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal weapon in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/this-is-not-to-portray-race-as-simply-one-among-many-issues-each-with/)

[Ian Haney López](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-haney-l-pez/)

> [“In 1963, Robert Novak had written that many Republican leaders were intent on converting the Party of Lincoln into the White Man’s Party. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-haney-l-pez/in-1963-robert-novak-had-written-that-many-republican-leaders-were/)

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