Protestors Storm Capital

[Spongebob]

The extent to which the gop has become a party of white supremacy is the extent to which it's expression is no longer welcome in the other party and the extent to which it's fundamental principles as espoused by the base are informed by white supremacist propaganda.

As we go back in time, dems were more and more amenable to white supremacy, and the principles the base espoused more and more dependent on the propaganda of white supremacy.  

In a recent paper, “Why did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate (PDF),” Princeton’s Ilyana Kuziemko and Yale’s Ebonya Washington use this data to argue that nearly all of the Democratic Party’s losses in the South from 1958-1980 can be explained by white voters’ racially conservative views.. They authors find almost no role for income growth among white voters or non-race-related policy preferences in explaining why white Southern voters left the party. Their findings help explain why some of the poorest parts of the country now serve as the base of the political party that is least supportive of redistribution. According to their research, this irony of the modern American political system can be directly linked to the racially conservative ideologies of Southern voters in the 1960s.

Below are some of the main findings and key points from the tudy.

https://economics.princeton.edu/working-...ld-debate/

Long story short (and picking up where it leaves off) it started in the spring of 1963, and would take twenty years for all of the newly reshuffled voters to find their place (if any) in the new paradigm.  By 1980, voters who were coming of political age in 63 would be older and greater positions of authority and with greater ability or tools to disseminate their ideology.  It would take another 20 years to produce the voters of that demographic, and hey presto, whadda you know, right about then some planes hit some buildings.  

From there, we have the humiliation of bush followed by eight years of a black man in the white house.  Trump was, in a very palpable sense, revenge for obama.  Revenge for the indignity of obama.  Revenge for the illegitimacy of obama.  Revenge for the injustice of white victimization and...fwiw...exactly the kind of person you'd expect to be shitty enough to give you what you wanted...if what you wanted was the reinforcement of white supremacy.

That was a good timeline overview and it is valid that the white supremacists didn't appear from nowhere; they moved from the Democratic party to the GOP as the civil rights movement began to be validated by law.  I sometimes wonder if Wallace had been elected, he might have been an earlier version of Trump.

I've actually heard directly from white people that Trump rose to power because of Obama and even though I understand the racist underpinnings of that, I don't see any logic in it.  What did Obama do to white people except get elected?