West virginia Quote by Hillary Rodham Clinton

So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because…

— Judy Woodruff

“IN ADDITION TO having become a distinctly Christian party, the GOP is more than ever America’s self-consciously white party. The nationalization of its Southern…

— Kurt Andersen

For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home.…

— Marvin Olasky

Southern Republicans are guided by the Bible. Western Republicans read the Constitution. Seen in historical terms, it's the difference between a movement descended from…

— Jacob Weisberg

“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Political scientists…

— J.D. Vance

The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them.

— Reince Priebus

“The ostensible culprit is liberalism’s bitterly contested remedies which asked too much of whites. Yet this ignores the long history, in the North as…

— Ian Haney López

Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“The liberal philosophy of race relations emphasized the stigma of segregation and the hypocrisy of a government that celebrates freedom and equality yet denies…

— Michelle Alexander

“I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed…

— Donald Miller

“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

“what white Southerners called “redemption” and others deemed simply the return to power of the Democrats, who sufficiently intimidated, cheated and otherwise discouraged Republicans,…

— H.W. Brands