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     27. Quoted in Susan Chira, “Vote Highlighted a Gender Gap, with Both Sides Feeling They’ve Lost Ground,” New York Times, November 9, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/gender-gap-campaign.html.

     28. Quoted in Gustav Niebuhr, “The 2000 Campaign: The Christian Right; Evangelicals Found a Believer in Bush,” New York Times, February 21, 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/21/us/the-2000-campaign-the-christian-right-evangelicals-found-a-believer-in-bush.html.

     29. Michael Hout and Claude S. Fischer, “Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Political Backlash and Generational Succession, 1987–2012,” Sociological Science (2014): 1–54.

     30. Sean Illing, “Why Christian Conservatives Supported Trump—and Why They Might Regret It,” Vox, February 2, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2017/10/4/16346800/donald-trump-christian-right-conservative-clinton.

     31. Gregory A. Smith and Jessica Martinez, “How the Faithful Voted: A Preliminary 2016 Analysis,” Pew Research Center, November 9, 2016, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/.

     32. U.S. Census Bureau, “Educational Attainment in the United States: 2016,” March 2017, https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2016/demo/education-attainment/cps-detailed-tables.html.

     33. Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady, Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Raymond Wolfinger and Steven J. Rosenstone, Who Votes? (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980).

     34. Richard Fry, “Millennials Match Baby Boomers as Largest Generation in U.S. Electorate, But Will They Vote?,” Pew Research Center, May 16, 2016. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/16/millennials-match-baby-boomers-as-largest-generation-in-u-s-electorate-but-will-they-vote/.

     35. Quoted in Molly Ball, “Trump’s Graying Army,” Atlantic, October 25, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/trumps-graying-army/505274/.

     36. Quoted in Peter Holley, “KKK’s Official Newspaper Supports Donald Trump for President,” Washington Post, November 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/the-kkks-official-newspaper-has-endorsed-donald-trump-for-president/?utm_term=.df354adbf1d3.

     37. “The Flight 93 Election,” Claremont Institute, September 5, 2016, http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/.

     38. Larry J. Sabato, “Just How Many Obama 2012-Trump 2016 Voters Were There?,” Center for Politics, June 1, 2016. http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/just-how-many-obama-2012-trump-2016-voters-were-there/.

     39. Donald Trump, “Trump: Tax Reform That Will Make America Great Again,” accessed May 4, 2018, https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/trump-tax-reform.pdf.

     40. Quoted in Jana Heigl, “Trump-O-Meter: Enact a Temporary Ban on New Regulations,” PolitiFact, accessed May 4, 2018, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1346/enact-temporary-ban-new-regulations/.

     41. “Remarks of President Donald J. Trump—As Prepared for Delivery, Inaugural Address,” White House, January 20, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/the-inaugural-address/.

  7. STATUS AND WHITE NATIONALISM

       1. “Paul the Protestant,” Imperial Night-Hawk, October 22, 1924, 4.

       2. Aldon Morris, The Origin of the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Free Press, 1984); Doug McAdam, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930–1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

       3. Rory McVeigh, The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009); Kelly J. Baker, Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915–1930 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2011.

       4. Quoted in Baker, Gospel According to the Klan, 162.

       5. Morris, Origins of the Civil Rights Movement; McAdam, Political Process.

       6. Lorraine Boissoneault, “How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics,” Smithsonian.com, January 26, 2017, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/immigrants-conspiracies-and-secret-society-launched-american-nativism-180961915/.

       7. Jay P. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985).

       8. “Further Similarity Between the Primitive Church and the Ku Klux Klan Movement,” Imperial Night-Hawk, October 29, 1924, 4.

       9. “Jesus the Protestant,” Kourier, February 1925, 5.

     10. “Peter the Protestant,” Imperial Night-Hawk, November 12, 1924, 4.

     11. “Jesus the Protestant,” Kourier, February 1925, 3.

     12. Gregory A. Smith and Jessica Martinez, “How the Faithful Voted: A Preliminary 2016 Analysis,” Pew Research Center, November 9, 2016, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/.

     13. Franklin Graham, Facebook post, November 10, 2016, https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1304046609651517&id=131201286936061.

     14. Quoted in Rick Seltzer, “Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Parable of Talents,” Inside Higher Ed, November 1, 2017, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/01/jerry-falwell-jr-relishes-new-fight-donald-trump-liberty-university-peaks.

     15. Jenna Amatulli, “Trump Supporter Says He’d Trust the President before Jesus Christ,” Huffington Post, November 11, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mark-lee-donald-trump-jesus-christ_us_5a1319b6e4b0c335e9964d7c.

     16. John Tracy Ellis, American Catholicism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 20.

     17. Baker, Gospel According to the Klan, 44–45.

     18. John Mecklin, The Ku Klux Klan: A Study of the American Mind (n.p.: Read Books, 2013), 104.

     19. David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan, 3rd ed. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), 85–87.

     20. American Catholic History Classroom, “The Fight for Public Schools in Oregon,” Catholic University of America, accessed May 13, 2018, https://cuomeka.wrlc.org/exhibits/show/osc/background/background—the-fight-for-publ.

     21. American Catholic History Classroom, “Fight for Public Schools in Oregon.”

     22. American Catholic History Classroom, “Fight for Public Schools in Oregon.”

     23. Linda Gordon, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (New York: Liveright, 2017), 142.

     24. Gordon, Second Coming of the KKK.

     25. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional before it went into effect.

     26. Nicole L. Mandel, “The Quiet Bigotry of Oregon’s Compulsory Public Education Act,” Young Historians Conference, April 26, 2012, https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=younghistorians.

     27. Kenneth Jackson, The Ku Klux Klan in The City, 1915–1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), 204.

     28. Lawrence J. Saalfeld, Forces of Prejudice in Oregon 1920–1925 (Portland, OR: University of Portland Press, 1984), 36.

     29. “Program Concerning Public School Problem Outlined by Imperial Wizard,” Imperial Night-Hawk, February 14, 1924, 7.

     30. “Dr. Evans’ Speech in Pennsylvania,” Imperial Night-Hawk, September 24, 1924, 6.

     31. “Klansmen Should Scan Text Books,” Imperial Night-Hawk, May 9, 1923, 3.

     32. Thomas D. Snyder, ed., 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait (Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of
Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993), https://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93442.pdf; McVeigh, Rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

     33. Snyder, 120 Years of American Education; McVeigh, Rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

     34. Peter H. Rossi and Alice S. Rossi, “Some Effects of Parochial School Education in America,” Daedalus 90, no. 2 (1961): 300–28.

     35. Timothy Walch, Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Crossroad, 1996).

     36. Walch, Parish School; McVeigh, Rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

     37. Walch, Parish School, 116–17.

     38. Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Chris Rhomberg, No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).

     39. McVeigh, Rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

     40. “Public Schools Should Be Carefully Guarded Against Un-American Influences,” Imperial Night-Hawk, May 30, 1923, 2.

     41. Joseph Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963).

     42. MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry.

     43. Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).

     44. MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry; Blee, Women of the Klan.

     45. Blee, Women of the Klan, 85.

     46. Blee, Women of the Klan, 86.

     47. Jackson, Ku Klux Klan in the City, 145–46; Chalmers, Hooded Americanism.

     48. Lisa Lorentz, “Friday Favorite: The National Horse Thief Detective Association,” Historic Indianapolis, accessed July 19, 2018, http://historicindianapolis.com/friday-favorites-the-national-horse-thief-detective-association/.

     49. Lorentz, “Friday Favorite.”

     50. Chalmers, Hooded Americanism, 166.

     51. “How Crooked Officials, Bootleggers and Law Violators Oppose Progress of Klan,” Imperial Night-Hawk, May 23, 1923, 5.

     52. Gordon, Second Coming of the KKK, 96.

     53. Jack S. Blocker Jr., “Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation,” American Journal of Public Health 96, no. 3 (2005): 237.

     54. McVeigh, Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 134–38.

     55. Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), 53–59, 65–68.

     56. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed.

     57. Olivia B. Waxman, “Donald Trump Says Central Park Five ‘Admitted They Were Guilty,’ Here’s What to Know about the Case,” Time, October 7, 2016.

     58. Adam Serwer, “The Nationalist’s Delusion: Trump’s Supporters Backed a Time-honored American Political Tradition, Disavowing Racism while Promising to Enact a Broad Agenda of Discrimination,” Atlantic, November 20, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-nationalists-delusion/546356/.

     59. Eugene Scott, “Poll Disputes Donald Trump Claim on Black Voter Support,” CNN Politics, August 28, 2015, https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/politics/donald-trump-african-american-polls/index.html.

     60. Jenna Johnson, “Donald Trump to African American and Hispanic Voters: ‘What Do You Have to Lose?,’” Washington Post, August 22, 2016.

     61. Jose Delreal, “African Americans Are ‘In The Worst Shape They’ve Ever Been,’ Trump Says in North Carolina,” Washington Post, September 20, 2016.

     62. Delreal, “African Americans Are ‘In The Worst Shape They’ve Ever Been.’”

     63. Matthew Friedman, Ames C. Grawert, and James Cullen, “Crime Trends: 1990–2016,” Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, April 18, 2017, https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/crime-trends1990-2016; Patrick Sharkey, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, and Delaram Takyar, “Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime,” American Sociological Review 82, no. 6 (2017): 1214–40.

     64. Sharkey, Torrats-Espinosa, and Takyar, “Community and the Crime Decline,” 1216.

     65. Friedman, Grawert, and Cullen, “Crime Trends: 1990–2016.”

     66. Sari Horwitz, “Sessions Weighs Return to Harsher Punishments for Low-Level Drug Crimes,” Washington Post, May 9, 2017.

     67. Laura Jarrett, “Sessions Tells Prosecutors Death Penalty on the Table in Drug Cases,” CNN Politics, March 21, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/jeff-sessions-death-penalty-drug-cases/index.html.

     68. Serwer, “The Nationalist’s Delusion.”

     69. Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New York: New Press, 2016); Jill S. Quadagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

     70. William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978); William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (New York: Vintage, 1996); William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely, Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in US Cities (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010).

     71. Shannon M. Monnat, “Deaths of Despair and Support for Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election,” (Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education Research Brief, December 4, 2016), https://aese.psu.edu/directory/smm67/Election16.pdf.

     72. Travis Linnemann, Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power (New York: New York University Press, 2016).

     73. Jon Schuppe, “Twin Plagues: Meth Rises in the Shadow of Opioids,” NBC News, July 2, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/twin-plagues-meth-rises-shadow-opioids-n776871.

     74. Monnat, “Deaths of Despair and Support for Trump.”

     75. Bill D. Moyers, “What a Real President Was Like,” Washington Times, November 13, 1998, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/11/13/what-a-real-president-was-like/d483c1be-d0da-43b7-bde6-04e10106ff6c/?utm_term=.8470e89dd232.

     76. Tom Kertscher, “The Allegations about Donald Trump and Miss Teen USA Contestants,” Politifact, October 18, 2016, http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2016/oct/18/allegations-about-donald-trump-and-miss-teen-usa-c/.

     77. Marshall Cohen, “Access Hollywood, Russian Hacking and Podesta Emails: One Year Later,” CNN Politics, October 7, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/07/politics/one-year-access-hollywood-russia-podesta-email/index.html.

     78. Quoted in Associated Press, “Gender Unescapable, in Unexpected Ways, at Campaign’s Close,” Fortune, October 15, 2016.

     79. Jon Blistein, “Watch Carly Fiorina Respond to Trump’s ‘Look at that Face’ Insult,” Rolling Stone, September 10, 2015.

     80. Abby L. Ferber, “Constructing Whiteness: The Intersections of Race and Gender in US White Supremacist Discourse,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 21, no. 1 (1998): 48–63; Kathleen M. Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

     81. “Proud Boys,” Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed March 2, 2018, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys.

     82. Sarah Jaffe, “Why Did a Majority of White Women Vote for Trump?,” New Labor Forum, January 2018, http://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2018/01/18/why-did-a-majority-of-white-women-vote-for-trump/.

     83. Peter Laslett and Richard Wall, Household and Family in Past Time (Cambr
idge: Cambridge University Press, 1972); Ruth Schwartz Cowan, “The Industrial Revolution in the Home,” in The Social Shaping of Technology, ed. Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman (Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 1985), 181–201; Barbara Laslett and Johanna Brenner, “Gender and Social Reproduction: Historical Perspectives,” Annual Review of Sociology 15, no. 1 (1989): 381–401.

     84. Ann Orloff, “Gender in the Welfare State,” Annual Review of Sociology 22, no. 1 (1996): 51–78; Joya Misra, “Mothers or Workers? The Value of Women’s Labor: Women and the Emergence of Family Allowance Policy,” Gender & Society 12, no. 4 (1998): 376–99.

     85. Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

     86. Claudia Buchmann and Thomas A. Diprete, “The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement,” American Sociological Review 71 (2006): 515–41; Katharin Peter and Laura Horn, Gender Differences in Participation and Completion of Undergraduate Education and How They Have Changed Over Time (NCES 2005-169) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, National Center for Educational Statistics, 2005); Francine D. Blau, and Lawrence M. Kahn, “The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60 (2006): 45–66; Margaret M. Marini, “Sex Differences in Earnings in the United States,” American Sociological Review 15 (1989): 343–80.

     87. Derek Thompson, “How America’s Marriage Crisis Makes Income Inequality So Much Worse,” Atlantic, October 1, 2013; Elizabeth Aura McClintock, “Beauty and Status: The Illusion of Exchange in Partner Selection,” American Sociological Review 79, no. 4 (2014): 575–604.

     88. Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood.

     89. Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade; Louis A. Zurcher and George R. Kirkpatrick, Citizens for Decency: Anti-Pornography Crusades and Status Defense (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976); Ann L. Page and Donald A. Clelland, “The Kanawha County Textbook Controversy: A Study of the Politics of Lifestyle Concern,” Social Forces 57, no. 1 (1978): 265–81.

 

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