Triumph of the Will, 2
See also fascism
neo-Nazism, 5–6, 8, 11, 27, 49, 161–162, 243, 258–259, 261, 263, 267, 281
New Deal, 11, 21–22, 24, 78, 155, 158–159, 163–164, 185, 200–201, 205
Eisenhower and, 278
National Recovery Act (NRA), 142, 159, 170–171, 173–174, 177
Social Security, 171
Tennessee Valley Project, 171
New Republic, 3, 78, 129, 170, 181
New York Times, 3, 7, 74–75, 77, 89, 164, 205, 226, 261
Nixon, Richard, 223
Democratic dominance and, 277–278
law and order platform, 203–204
Southern Strategy and, 11, 24, 180–182, 202–207
Watergate, 202
Noden, Kirk, 8
Norrell, Robert, 125
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 257
Nussbaum, Martha, 287
Obama, Barack, xii-xv, 16, 27, 90, 121, 128, 162, 183, 260, 289
Affordable Care Act, 159
class warfare and, 174
Coates on, 11
Democratic National Convention (2012), 166
Democratic plantation and, 22, 25, 159–160, 212, 284
federal auto bailout (2008), 178
Hispanic vote and, 75, 239
immigration policy, 72–73, 75
Obama-Trump voters, 249–251
supporters, 250–251, 260
O’Brien, Luke, 262–263
Occupy Wall Street movement, 27, 260
O’Hehir, Andrew, 7
Olivetti, Angiolo, 168
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 55, 61
Omi, Michael, 13
Ottoman dynasty, xiii, 252
Outer South. See American South: Peripheral South
Patterson, Orlando, 16, 46
Payne, Stanley, 126, 162–163
Pearson, Jay, 5
Pelosi, Nancy, 174
Pendergast, Tom, 89
Peripheral South. See American South
Philadelphia Plan, 205
Phillips, Kevin, 202, 206–207, 209
Phillips, Wendell, 139
Pierce, Franklin, 19, 281
Pinckney, Charles, 46
plantation, Democratic, 14–29
Big House and the state, 149–178
boss, 14–15, 23, 25, 134, 160, 186, 194
civil rights and, 179–211
Civil War and, 20, 95–118
defined, 14–15
Democratic master class psychology and, 19, 48–71
founders’ dilemma and, 30–47
multiculturalism and, 25, 212–242
nationalism and, 273–292
overseers, 14–15, 21, 25, 59, 128, 134, 151–152, 194, 202, 225–233, 283–285, 291
progressives and, 20–22, 25–26, 119–149
urban politics and, 17–19, 72–94
Plato, 85
Plunkitt, George Washington, 72, 90, 94
political action committees (PACs), xiv
Politico, 8, 49
Pomeroy, Marcus, 110–111
Potter, David, 55
progressive era, 119–148
Ku Klux Klan and, 21, 121, 123, 129, 139–142
Nazism and, 125–128, 145–148
race and, 119–128
segregation and, 142–145
white supremacy and, 134–142
progressive narrative of American history, 8–13
protest
anti-Trump protests, 4
antiwar protests, 203
Charlottesville rally and, 12, 49
civil rights protests, 189
counter-protest, 244, 259
NFL protests, 31
Punic Wars, xii
racism, 13–14, 22–29, 50, 55–56, 97, 101–102, 108–109, 282–283, 286–287
charge against Trump, 5–12
civil rights era and, 180–190, 195–198, 201–211
fascism and, 150, 154–155, 161–162, 168–173, 180
invisible racism, 214–215
multiculturalism and, 212–218, 228–229
progressive era and, 120–148, 270
working-class whites and, 244, 252–253, 255, 258, 260–266
Ramos, Jorge, 229, 245
Rangel, Charles, 226
Ransome, Noel, 31
Rasmussen, Holly, 250
Rayburn, Sam, 155–156
Reagan, Ronald, 24, 149, 159, 179, 181, 209–210, 246, 268–270, 278, 288–290
Reconstruction, 11, 20, 96–99, 111–118, 119, 121, 138–139, 170, 187, 195, 213, 270, 287
Reid, Eric, 30
Reid, Joy, 5
Remini, Robert, 80–81, 84
Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 53
Rich, Frank, 5–6
RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), 144
Ritchie, Thomas, 82–84
Rivers, Eugene, 221
Rocco, Alfredo, 165
Rodriguez, Junius, 62
Roe v. Wade, 24
Rolling Stone, 5, 6, 31
Roman Empire, xii-xiii, 252
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 16, 18, 66, 77, 128, 183–184
African American vote and, 201–202
civil rights and, 173, 188
class warfare and, 173–176
Democratic plantation and, 283, 285
fascism and, 21–22, 149–178
Japanese American internment, 154, 230
Ku Klux Klan and, 153–156
labor union movement, 21, 27, 170–171, 176–178
Tammany Hall and, 94, 175–176
taxation, 21
See also New Deal
Roosevelt, Theodore, 119–123, 125, 127, 134
Ross, E. A., 132
Rosaldo, Renato, 237
Ruffin, Edmund, 61
Russell, Richard, 186–187, 197, 208
Rutledge, John, 37
Saletan, Will, 259
Salon, 3, 6, 7, 181–182
Sanders, Bernie, 167, 249
Sanger, Margaret, 144, 147–148
Schaaf, Libby, 73
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 154
Schumer, Charles, 174, 236
Schurz, Carl, 117
segregation, 11–12, 154–155, 171–172, 283, 287
civil rights era and, 180–191, 196–198, 201–208
multiculturalism and, 213–215, 217
progressive era and, 120, 123–125, 129, 134, 142–143, 145–146, 148
Seitz, Scott, 251
Seligman, Martin, 25, 224–225
Seward, William, 20
Seymour, Horatio, 106
Shafer, Byron, 208–210
Sims, Marion, 57
Skinheads, 258, 259
Slate, 6, 7
slavery
abolitionism, 30–47, 53, 61, 67–69, 87, 133, 93, 107–108, 139, 246–248, 276
Civil War and, 95–118
Crittenden Compromise, 95, 108, 274
Dred Scott, 32–33
“Dyaesthesia Aethiopica” and “Drapetomania” diagnoses, 60
Emancipation Proclamation, 51, 86, 97, 103, 109–113, 131
equality clause, 31–38, 44–45
Jefferson and, 19, 30, 31–32, 34, 35, 37–42
Lincoln on, 24–25, 34–37, 40–42, 44–47, 49–51, 67–71, 198–200
Missouri Compromise, 36, 95, 273
U.S. Constitution and, 10, 16, 31–36, 44, 101
white supremacy and, 19–20, 120, 125–128, 134, 138, 144–147
Snyder, Timothy, 7, 151–153
Sofsky, Wolfgang, 151
South. See American South
Southern Strategy
big switch theory and, 181–183, 196, 208–211, 243
LBJ and, 24, 182–183
Nixon and, 11, 24, 180–182, 202–207
Sowell, Thomas, 123, 228
Spaeth, Ryu, 3
Spencer, Richard, 6, 27, 244, 258, 267–272
Spielberg, Steven, 79
Sracic, Paul, 250
Stalin, Joseph, xii, 126–128
Stampp, Kenneth, 26
Steele, Michael, 180
Steele, Shelby, 195, 212, 228
Stephens, Alexander, 34, 95, 98–100
Cornerstone Speech, 108–109
Sternhell, Zeev, 166
Stiglitz, Joseph, 7
Stoddard, Lothrop, 144
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 124
Sumner, Charles, 106, 114–115
Swain, Carol, 263–266
Tammany Hall, 18, 77–78, 88–94, 106, 160, 175–177, 193, 226
Taney, Roger, 15–16, 19, 32–35, 37, 41, 49, 68, 281
Taylor, Jared, 263–266
Thomas, Clarence, 228
Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” 89
Thurmond, Strom, 208
Tilghman, Tench, 135
Tillman, Benjamin, 122
Tompkins, John, 56
trade, 256–257, 289
Treuer, David, 233
tribe, American, ix-xii
Tribe, Laurence, 4
Truman, Harry, 22, 128, 154–156, 171–172, 174, 188
Trump, Donald
American Nationalism of, 27–29, 93, 97, 273–292
Charlottesville Unite the Right rally and, 243–245, 248, 258–259
compared to Lincoln, 277–279
defeat of the plantation and, 288–292
Giuliani, Rudy, 262–263
holdout voters (white working class) and, 27, 243–272
immigration and, 28–29, 73–74, 161–162, 228–229, 236, 256–257, 271, 289–290
Make American Great Again (MAGA), 6, 27, 74, 161, 228, 243, 245, 249–250, 256
Never Trump movement, 246, 289
Obama-Trump voters, 249–251
progressive narrative of, 2–8, 12, 96, 161–162, 165, 167, 181–182
Warsaw speech, 1–2
white nationalists and, 267, 269, 271–272
Trumpsters, 3–4, 12, 41, 245, 290
Tugwell, Rexford, 159, 170
Turner, Lisa, 264
Tweed, William “Boss,” 89–90, 281
“Uncle Toms,” 123–124, 228, 286
Unite the Right rally (Charlottesville, VA), 6, 12, 27, 31, 48–49, 243–245, 248, 258, 260
Vallandigham, Clement, 106–107, 130–131
Van Buren, Martin, 16, 18, 79–88, 92–94, 160, 238, 247, 281–282, 285
Vance, J. D., 254–255
Vardaman, James, 122
Venezuela, xiii, 74, 240
Vice, 31
volte face (about face), 23, 179–180, 183, 195–197, 205
Voorhees, Daniel, 106
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 23, 113, 181
Vox, 2
Wagner, Robert, 177
Wagoner, Rick, 159
Wallace, George, 14, 24, 181, 198, 207
Wallace, Henry Scott, 164–165
Warnock, Raphael, 229
Warren, Elizabeth, 5, 167
Washington, Booker T., 56, 121, 123–124, 195, 228, 285
Washington, George, 36–38
Washington Post, 3, 287
Weber, Jennifer, 109
Week, The, 5
West, Kanye, 228
Whig Party, 20, 85, 99–100, 112, 246–247, 278
White Face, Charmaine, 232
white nationalism, 29, 263–272
American Renaissance, 263–265
Charlottesville rally and, 27, 243–244, 248
marginalization of, 266
multiculturalism and, 28, 267, 271
“new white nationalism,” 263
progressives and, 2, 5–6, 20
white nationalist vote, 248, 271–272
World Church of the Creator, 264
See also American nationalism; Spencer, Richard
white privilege, 64, 214–215, 255
white supremacy
African American progressives and, 125, 127
American founding and, 31–33, 38, 41, 45–47
antebellum Democrats and, 19, 50, 54, 64, 69
big switch and, 181–182
Charlottesville rally and, 6, 12, 27, 243–245, 260
Coates on, 10–13, 216–217, 249
Democratic Party and, 14, 19–24, 114, 120, 125–128, 134, 137–138, 144–147, 181–184, 189–190, 198
Lincoln and, 51, 97, 103–104, 114
profiles of white supremacists, 260–261
progressive view of, 5–13, 27–28, 31, 127–128, 201–202, 213–215, 266
Republican Party and, 114–116, 201–202, 287, 291
as tool of enslavement, 19–20, 120, 125–128, 134, 138, 144–147
white nationalists and, 263, 267
white supremacist vote, 258–259
World War II and, 23
See also Charlottesville Unite the Right rally
whiteness and white politics, 3, 5, 10, 12, 87
history, 251–255
identity politics, 263–267
Know-Nothing party, 246–248
Obama-Trump voters, 249–251
white working class (holdouts), 27, 243–272
See also white nationalism; white supremacy
Whitman, James, 146–147
Whitney, Eli, 52
Whitney, Leon, 147
Widmer, Ted, 78, 80–81, 87, 91
Wilkerson, Isabel, 190, 195
Williams, Walter, 228
Williamson, Joel, 118
Wills, Garry, 35
Wilson, James Q., 278
Wilson, Woodrow, 20–22, 27, 148, 153–154, 182, 270, 281, 283, 285
admiration of Lincoln, 128–134
centralized state (progressive plantation) and, 119–148
election of 1912, 119–128, 143
eugenics and, 143, 145, 148
Wilson, Woodrow (continued)
History of the American People, 119, 120–121, 145
immigration and, 143–145
Ku Klux Klan and, 139–142
segregation and, 142–143
white supremacy and, 134–142
Winant, Howard, 13
Witherspoon, Boykin, 57
Wood, Fernando, 106
Wood, Gordon, 16, 47, 56
World War I, xiii, 9, 21, 138, 190
World War II, 21, 23, 150, 157–158, 160, 165, 171–172, 188, 230, 249, 283
Holocaust, 9, 123, 151, 161, 281
See also Nazi Germany and Nazism
Wright, Fielding, 208
Wright, Silas, Jr., 88
Wyche, Steve, 30
Yancey, William, 53
Zeitz, Joshua, 49
About the Author
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Contents
EPIGRAPH
DEDICATION
PREFACE: On Gaining and Losing a Country
1. INTRODUCTION: Who Is Killing America?
2. DILEMMA OF THE PLANTATION: The Antislavery Founding
3. PARTY OF ENSLAVEMENT: The Psychology of the Democratic Master Class
4. URBAN PLANTATION: Martin Van Buren and the Creation of the Northern Political Machine
5. THE PLANTATION IN CRISIS: How Democrats North and South Fought to Extend Slavery
6. PROGRESSIVE PLANTATION: White Supremacy as a Weapon of Reenslavement
7. THE STATE AS BIG HOUSE: What FDR Learned from Fascism and Nazism
8. CIVIL RIGHTS AND WRONGS: LBJ, Nixon and the Myth of the Southern Strategy
9. MULTICULTURAL PLANTATIONS: Expanding the Culture of Dependency
10. HOLDOUTS: Democrats and the Problem of White People
11. EMANCIPATION: How American Nationalism Can Save the Country
NOTES
INDEX
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