Success Quote by Ian Haney López

“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

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was]…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“It is possible that the next economic downturn--or stock market crash--will bring on further developments. During the recession at the end of the 1980s,…

— Steve Brouwer

“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

“Silver noticed that the areas where Trump performed best made for an odd map. Trump performed well in parts of the Northeast and industrial…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“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

“this is the conversation I’ve been having since the 2016 election ended and liberals and progressives have been scrambling to figure out what went…

— Ijeoma Oluo

“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

“Especially in the Deep South, where Democratic victory was impossible without the neutralization of part of the black electorate, it also implied a revival…

— Eric Foner

“Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of working with them revealed that they could want to be with us…

— bell hooks

“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

During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that…

— Anderson Cooper