We take for granted the fact that America’s racial divide overlaps with our political one. …
Race and partisanship are so sufficiently intertwined at this point that it can be hard to determine the effect one has on the other. Are attitudes about Black Lives Matter split by party because they’re split by race? Have liberal politics shaped the movement as much as racial ones?
Then again, race and partisanship have always been intertwined. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post