The Reductionism of Racial Backlash Theory
Racism as a singular explanation for working-class realignment since the 1970s is deeply misleading.
“We lost the South for a generation.”
Lyndon Johnson’s apocryphal prediction remains the stuff of political legend.1 Endlessly repeated, LBJ’s fear that civil rights would prompt a white backlash is now not just prophecy but fact to many. In thi…
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