11. Robert Caro, Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Vintage, 1990), p. xix; Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York: New American Library, 1977), p. 14.
12. MacAoidh, “From the JFK Assassination Files: Was Lyndon Johnson a Klansman?” October 27, 2017, thehayride.com.
13. Lyndon Johnson, Howard University Address, June 4, 1965, reprinted in Lee Rainwater and William L. Yancey, The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967), p. 126.
14. Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 222.
15. Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), p. 18–19.
16. Michael Shelden, “A Lewd, Crude Master,” August 10, 2002, telegraph.co.uk; Jan Jarboe Russell, “Alone Together,” August 1999, texasmonthly.com.
17. Shelden, “Lewd, Crude Master.”
18. Cited by Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 441.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 223.
21. Caro, Years of Lyndon Johnson, p. 717.
22. Cited by Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, p. 155.
23. Cited by Ronald Kessler, Inside the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 33.
24. Snopes, “Civil Wrongs,” July 2016, snopes.com.
25. Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo and Maria Krysan, Racial Attitudes in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998); Maria Krysan, “Trends in Racial Attitudes,” University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs, 2016, igpa.uillinois.edu.
26. George Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 5.
27. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns (New York: Vintage, 2010), p. 9, 27, 536.
28. Cited by Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll (New York: Vintage, 1974), p. 126, 142–143.
29. Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 75.
30. Shelby Steele, A Dream Deferred (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), p. 65.
31. Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, p. 304.
32. Frederick Douglass, “The Nation’s Problem,” in Howard Brotz, ed., Negro Social and Political Thought, 1850–1920 (New York: Basic Books, 1966), p. 316–17; Frederick Douglass, “The Destiny of Colored Americans,” The North Star, November 16, 1849.
33. Mona Charen, “Whitewashing the Democratic Party’s History,” June 25, 2015, ricochet.com; Tal Kopan, “Hayes: Sorry for Wallace Party Label,” June 12, 2013, prospect.org.
34. Harry Enten, “Were the Republicans Really the Party of Civil Rights in the 1960s?” August 28, 2013, theguardian.com.
35. Abraham Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings (New York: Vintage, 1992), p. 111–12, 146, 193, 235; see also Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 20; David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 110; Allen Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999), p. 188; James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 28; Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), p. 300.
36. Abraham Lincoln, letter to his stepbrother, December 24, 1848, in Mario Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds., Lincoln on Democracy (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), p. 41–42.
37. Matthew Rees, From the Deck to the Sea: Blacks and the Republican Party (Wakefield, NH: Longwood Academic, 1991), p. 1.
38. Jamelle Bouie, “Rand Paul at Howard,” April 11, 2013, thedailybeast.com.
39. Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White, p. 32–36; Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013), p. 176.
40. Rob Stein, “New Nixon Tapes Reveal Anti-Semitic, Racist Remarks,” December 12, 2010, washingtonpost.com.
41. Kruse, White Flight, p. 251.
42. Cited by George Packer, “Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt,” October 24, 2016, newyorker.com.
43. Cited by George P. Shultz, “How a Republican Desegregated the South’s Schools,” January 8, 2003, nytimes.com.
44. Neal Devins, “Philadelphia Plan,” Faculty Publications Paper 1637, William and Mary Law School, 1994, scholarship.law.wm.edu.
45. See, e.g., Howard Gillette, “Philadelphia Plan,” 2013, philadelphiaencyclopedia.org.
46. Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015); Steven Conn, “A Quick Political History of White Supremacy,” August 8, 2007, huffingtonpost.com; Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich, p. 42.
47. Phillips, Emerging Republican Majority, p. xix.
48. Ibid., p. 272.
49. The subsequent account is summarized from Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
50. Kruse, White Flight, p. 261.
9. Multicultural Plantations
1. Shelby Steele, A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), p. 125–26.
2. Dinesh D’Souza, The End of Racism (New York: Free Press, 1995).
3. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015), p. 14–17, 20, 23–24.
4. Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power (New York: One World, 2017), p. 86.
5. Elijah Anderson, Code of the Street (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), p. 33, 75, 92, 97, 140–41, 150–51, 156; Elijah Anderson, Streetwise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 92–93, 103, 112–14, 124, 126.
6. Eugene Rivers, “On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack,” September–October 1992, bostonreview.net.
7. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (New York: The New Press, 2012), p. 9.
8. E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Family in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966); Daniel P. Moynihan, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” in Lee Rainwater and William Yancey, eds., The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967).
9. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Negro American Family (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970); Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (New York: Pantheon, 1976); Malinowski cited by Charles Murray, Coming Apart (New York: Crown Forum, 2013), p. 164.
10. See, e.g., Margaret Mead, Male and Female (New York: HarperPerennial, 2001).
11. Jeanette L. Nolan, “Learned Helplessness,” britannica.com; Kendra Cherry, “What Is Learned Helplessness and Why Does It Happen?” June 24, 2017, verywell.com; Maria Konnikova, “Trying to Cure Depression, but Inspiring Torture Instead,” January 14 2015, newyorker.com.
12. Paul Kane and Ben Pershing, “Democrat Rangel Charged with 13 Ethics Violations,” July 30, 2010, washingtonpost.com; Josh Bresnahan, “Rangel Guilty on 11 Ethics Charges,” November 16, 2010, politico.com.
13. Jaweed Kaleem, Cindy Chang and Jenny Jarvie, “At Two of the Nation’s Most Historic Black Churches, Sermons Reflect on Martin Luther King and Take Sharp Aim at Trump,” January 14, 2018, latimes.com.
14. Chris Fuchs, “Asian-American Advocates Blast Trump Decision to End DACA Program,” September 5, 2017, nbcnews.com.
15. David Treuer, Rez Life (New York: Grove Press, 2012), p. 5, 27–29, 55, 187.
16. Sarah Hines, “The Bracero Program: 1942–1964,” April 21, 2006, counterpunch.org.
17. Renato Rosaldo, Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), p. 196.
18. Jens Manuel Krogstad and Mark Hugo Lopez, “Hillary Clinton Won Latino Vote but Fell Below 2012 Support for Obama,” November 29, 2016, Pew Research Center, pewresearch.org.
19. Isabel Valle, Fields of Toil (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994), p. 5, 50, 158, 219.
10. Holdouts
1. Wtf1958, blog post response to Stephanie Coontz, “How Clinton Lost the White Working Class,” November 10, 2016, cnn.com.
2. Clarisse Loughrey, “Charlottesville: Van Jones Left in Tears Over Donald Trump’s Press Conference Remarks,” August 16, 2017, independent.co.uk.
3. Peter Holley, “KKK Official Newspaper Supports Donald Trump for President,” November 2, 2016, washingtonpost.com.
4. Chris Reeves, “Jorge Ramos: Republicans Want to Make America White Again,” February 12, 2018, townhall.com.
5. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President,” October 2017, theatlantic.com.
6. Kiron Skinner, Reagan: A Life in Letters (New York: Free Press, 2004), p. 171.
7. Cited by Harry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), p. 74.
8. Abraham Lincoln, letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855, in Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds., Lincoln on Democracy (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), p. 83.
9. Frederick Douglass, “The Reason for Our Troubles,” cited by Jill Lepore, “Wars Within,” November 21, 2016, newyorker.com; Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 233, 237.
10. Edward Carmines, Michael J. Ensley and Michael W. Wagner, “Ideological Heterogeneity and the Rise of Donald Trump,” December 2016, researchgate.net; Daniel Cox, Rachel Lienesch and Robert P. Jones, “Beyond Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump,” May 9, 2017, prri.org; Emma Green, “It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White Working-Class Voters to Trump,” May 9, 2017, theatlantic.com; Alex Roarty, “Report: Obama-Turned-Trump Voters Cost Hillary Election,” May 1, 2017, seattletimes.com; Nate Cohn, “The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real. Here’s What They Think,” August 15, 2017, nytimes.com.
11. Paul Sracic, “Why Trump Gets Backing of White Working Class Voters,” September 6, 2016, cnn.com.
12. David Wasserman, “The One County in America That Voted in a Landslide for Both Trump and Obama,” November 9, 2017, fivethirtyeight.com.
13. Tim Hains, “CNN’s Van Jones Speaks with Obama Voters Who Switched to Trump,” December 7, 2016, realclearpolitics.com.
14. David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 49.
15. Nancy Isenberg, White Trash (New York: Viking, 2016), p. 13.
16. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America (New York: New York University Press, 2008), p. 15.
17. Davis, Inhuman Bondage, p. 127.
18. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, “Mortality and Morbidity in the Twenty-First Century,” March 2017, brookings.edu.
19. J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy (New York: HarperCollins, 2016), p. 43–44, 173.
20. Justin Haskins, “Trump Keeps His Promise: Blacks and Hispanics Do Better with Him Than Obama,” January 6, 2018, foxnews.com.
21. David Chalmbers, Hooded Americanism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1987), p. xii.
22. “Hugh Hewitt, Van Jones Spar Over White Supremacy,” December 2, 2016, dailycaller.com; William Saletan, “What Trump Supporters Really Believe,” August 29, 2017, slate.com.
23. “Jason Kessler,” Southern Poverty Law Center profile, splcenter.org.
24. Chris Suarez, “Kessler Described as One-Time Wannabe Liberal Activist,” August 17, 2017, dailyprogress.com.
25. Richard Fausset, “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland,” November 25, 2017, nytimes.com.
26. Michael Edison Hayden, “Neo-Nazi Who Calls for ‘Slaughter’ of Jewish Children Is of Jewish Descent, His Mom Says,” January 3, 2018, newsweek.com.
27. Luke O’Brien, “The Making of an American Nazi,” December 2017, theatlantic.com.
28. Jason Wilson, “The Races Are Not Equal: Meet the Alt-Right Leader in Clinton’s Campaign Ad,” August 26, 2016, theguardian.com.
29. Carol Swain, The New White Nationalism in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 21–24; Carol Swain and Russ Nieli, eds., Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 102, 167–68, 254.
30. Blake Neff, “Meet Some of the Literal Fascists Attending the RNC,” July 18, 2016, dailycaller.com.
31. Swain, New White Nationalism in America, p. 29; see also “Sam Francis,” Southern Poverty Law Center profile, splcenter.org.
32. Cited by George Packer, “Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt,” October 31, 2016, newyorker.com.
33. Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the Twenty First Century (New Century Books, 2011), p. 233.
34. Ibid.
35. Bob Moser, “Richard Spencer Wins Again,” October 20, 2017; Graeme Wood, “His Kampf,” June 2017, theatlantic.com.
11. Emancipation
1. Abraham Lincoln, “Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,” November 19, 1863, in Abraham Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings (New York: Vintage, 1992), p. 405.
2. Ibid., p. 273, 288, 314–15, 405; see also David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis (New York: HarperPerennial, 1976), p. 558; Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), p. 245.
3. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom, p. 297.
4. James Q. Wilson, “A Guide to Reagan Country,” May 1967, commentarymagazine.com.
5. Walter Kirn, “Easy Chair,” Harper’s, February 2018, p. 5.
6. Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings, p. 422–23.
7. Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. xv, 3, 109, 126.
8. John C. Calhoun, letter to Oliver Dyer, January 1, 1849, cited in ibid., p. 114.
9. Martha Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” in Martha C. Nussbaum et al., For Love of Country (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996). p. 4–9; Amy Gutmann, “Democratic Citizenship,” in ibid., p. 68–69; Elizabeth Bruenig, “Trump’s Solution to America’s Crisis: Nationalism,” January 30, 2018, washingtonpost.com.
10. Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” speech to the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, April 1865, lib.rochester.edu.
11. Gabor Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1978).
12. Cited in Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999), p. 284.
13. Cited in Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom, p. 171.
14. Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings, p. 99, 364.
Index
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abolitionism, 30–47, 53, 61, 67–69, 87, 133, 93, 107–108, 139, 246–248, 276
abortion, 24, 70–71, 210, 290
academia, 9, 14, 123, 133, 227, 230–231
Albany Regency (New York Democratic machine), 81–84, 87–89
Alexander, Michelle, 44, 226
Allemane, Jean, 166
Alt-Right, 2, 6
Aly, Gotz, 168–169
Amendments, Constitutional. See Constitution of the United States
American Civil War, 95–118
Confederacy’s northern allies, 104
Emancipation Proclamation, 51, 86, 97, 103, 109–113, 131
Peace and War Democrats, 106–110
political party differences, 99–103
reasons for, 273–277
Reconstruction, 11, 20, 96–99, 111–121, 138–139, 170, 187, 195, 213, 270, 287
American exceptionalism, xvi,
31
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 178
American nationalism, 27–29, 93, 97, 273–292
American Revolution, xii, 40, 46–47, 52–53, 286
American South, 10–25
Dixiecrats, 181, 197, 202, 207–208
New South, 209
Old South, 204, 209
Peripheral South, 24, 207–208
Republican South, 24, 50, 208–211
Southern Democrats, 19, 22, 33, 54–55, 68, 71, 97, 110–115, 130, 139, 146, 172, 182,198, 280
See also American Civil War; Southern Strategy
Amistad (film), 79
Anderson, Benedict, ix
Anderson, Carol, 141
Anderson, Elijah, 217–221
Anglin, Andrew, 262–263
anthropology, ix, 38–39, 217–218, 223–224, 237
anti-communism, 23–24, 203
Antifa, 49, 51, 157, 183, 244, 262
Antifederalists, 43
antislavery movement, 30–47, 53, 61, 67–69, 87, 133, 93, 107–108, 139, 246–248, 276
Arpaio, Joe, 7
Atlantic, The, 2–3, 9, 96, 120, 181, 262, 267
Auernheimer, Andrew, 261
Ayers, Bill, 203
Bailey v. Alabama, 125
Baker, Kevin, 78
Baltimore Sun, 3
Banneker, Benjamin, 39
Bannon, Steve, 28, 269
Barnett, Ross, 14
Beard, Charles, 98, 170
Beard, Mary, 98
Beinart, Peter, 2–3
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, 7
Bennett, Lerone, 97
Bharara, Preet, xiii
Big House, 14–15, 20, 22, 25, 67, 124, 128, 149–178, 194, 223, 283
Bilbo, Theodore, 11, 154–155
Birth of a Nation (film), 140–142, 187, 270
Black, Hugo, 22, 155, 156
Black Caucus, 258, 266
Black Lives Matter, 49, 51, 157, 183, 244
Blassingame, John, 53
Blow, Charles, 7–8
Bombacci, Nicola, 166
Bonica, Adam, 75
Booth, John Wilkes, 110–111
Borah, William, 172
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