""I think America is currently in a Cold Civil War. The parties, of course, have switched sides since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The party of the Union and Lincoln is now the Democratic party. The party of the Confederacy is now the GOP. And racial polarization is at record levels, with whites entirely responsible for reversing Obama's 2008 inroads into the old Confederacy in three Southern states."................
It's an interesing theory; I've heard it voiced in a few places recently. I don't think it's as motivated by race as it is by independence from what is seen as oppressive government over-regulation, and I don't know that I buy into the author's political party aspect of it. I think it is more a rural vs. urban mindset rather than motivated by political parties. I think folks who live in rural areas are more inclined toward self-sufficiency while densly packed urbanites tend to be less self-sufficient and so more dependent upon government.
Although Republicans were more likely than Democrats to express racial prejudice in the questions measuring explicit racism (79 percent among Republicans compared with 32 percent among Democrats), the implicit test found little difference between the two parties.
That test showed a majority of both Democrats and Republicans held anti-black feelings (55 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans), as did about half of political independents (49 percent).
