The momentous events of the last week can be interpreted in numerous ways. But one thing has become increasingly clear: The Republican Party needs to change. … Simply put, Republicans are loaded up in a car, racing toward a generational cliff with their eyes focused on the rearview mirror, with […] Read more »
Dixie’s Long Journey From Democratic Stronghold To Republican Redoubt
The tragic events in Charleston this month have released years of racial and political tension in the South, and the pressure is being felt by Republican officeholders across the region. Why the Republicans? Because it is increasingly difficult to find officeholders in the region who are not Republicans. CONT. Ron […] Read more »
Can Hillary Clinton step forward on race without leaving white voters behind?
… Clinton 2008 may have been leery of speaking overtly about gender, race or even the historic nature of her own campaign. But Clinton 2016 plans to put race and other issues of inequality front and center. … So for candidate Clinton circa 2016, the question becomes just how far […] Read more »
Attitudes Toward Racism And Inequality Are Shifting
… We know that racial disparities exist: By almost every measure of well-being, black people as a group in the United States fare worse than white people do. But how people feel about race and racism, particularly between black and white Americans, is complicated. … The General Social Survey (GSS) […] Read more »
Republicans Tread Carefully in Criticism of Confederate Flag
The massacre of nine African-Americans in a storied Charleston church last week, which thrust the issues of race relations and gun rights into the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, has now resurfaced another familiar and divisive question in the emerging contest for the Republican nomination: what to do with […] Read more »
America’s Still-Healing Racial Wounds
Fifty years ago, on March 15, 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson gave one of the most memorable speeches by a U.S. president, calling on Congress to enact a voting rights bill by borrowing the cry of the civil rights movement: “We shall overcome.” The Voting Rights Act passed a little more […] Read more »