So they have made an effort for generations to fill these people's minds with the bullshit notion that well, you might have a pretty shitty life but at least you ain't black.

And they bought it because it was the truth, kinda. The wealthy people were able to keep them poor, but better of than blacks. Not that they were a hell of a lot better off, just enough so they could tell the difference.

In a word they were manipulated by the 1%.

The comments section there, though, is tres bizarre....

Including this new meme of saying that "Anti-Racism is Anti-White". I don't know where that originally came from, but I'm thinking that it started in Stormfront.

But that being said, there is quite a cultural distance between an Appalachian coal miner and a NY billionaire. And I say this as somebody who has lived in Appalachia. Most Appalachians (who often vote Democratic, btw), will never meet a billionaire. I know I never have.

Even with those differences, race is still a pretty important marker of identity, but for whites this is still largely relegated to the unspoken and the abstract. The MSM and broader political culture tend to prohibit open expressions of white racial solidarity - which is interesting given that these institutions are generally dominated by white people. It generally occurs under the table, but it's still there.

Hence the need for dog whistle politics in this country.

And while I think the term 'dog whistle' is overused on DU, I think it's appropriate sometimes. But at the same time, the argument they would make would be that everybody else gets to do this type of thing openly. And as the white share of the population continues to decline, it's inevitable that whites will start express more and more racial solidarity just like everybody else. We're witnessing the transition of this type of thing from fringe hate groups to mainstream culture. It's always been there of course, it's just been banned from being expressed publicly.

They love God (or their version of him), they love guns and they thing gays are bad.

Doesn't matter what other issues the GOP party supports as long as they stick with the 3Gs they can get away with murder.

One popular misconception is that people who join cults are intellectually inferior (stupid). The reality is that people who join cults are just as intelligent as everyone else. Cults just attract people at weak moments when they are lonely and/or depressed.

Evangelicals target public schools for the same reasons. They seek to recruit children because they make excellent targets for indoctrination.

Hell when I was in 2nd grade I'd probably read from Mein Kampf if you promised me a chocolate bar. I wouldn't understand what I was reading but I'd do it just for the goods.

When you have an entire system built to oppress people's CLASS (income, standard of living etc.) based on their RACE, the very idea of making that claim is beyond idiotic. Hopefully, articles like this will educate people but I'm not particularly hopeful.