“Even so, unlike most in society, these politicians thought long and deep about how to turn race to their advantage. We’ve previously defined strategic racism as purposeful efforts to use racial animosity as leverage to gain political power (or material… — 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
