Anybody got a list of phrases the Republicans have used over the years to substitute for race?

[rurallib]

They use these phrases because they don't want to use the "N" word. Yet they want to scare the whites into voting for them.

I can think of a few. Obviously this year it is "critical race theory - now abbreviated "CRT."
Previous words or phrases I can recall are "busing" during the late '60s and early '70s.
"Affirmative Action" was in there for some time, using LBJ's program as a lightning rod.
Then there was Reagan's "welfare queen."

I have been pondering this ever since "CRT" became the new phrase. Whenever I hear one of these phrases I think of Lee Atwater's confession and how true it was. Apparently finding a way to couch the race issue still works.

From Wikipedia on Lee Atwater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now you don't have to do that. All that you need to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues that he's campaigned on since 1964, and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*****, n*****, n*****". By 1968 you can't say "n*****"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*****, n*****". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner.[16]

[Gruenemann]

1. "Urban" and "thugs"

are two that come to mind.

[empedocles]

2. In Fairfax Cty, Va., simple campaign sign, 'Parents for Youngkin'

[Parents very aware of low-income schools]

[spicysista]

3. I found a pretty good article....

http://factmyth.com/racial-codes-and-dog-whistle-politics/

From the article....

"Law and Order". Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and now Trump have all called for “Law and Order.” Are they trying to rally the base innocently? Did someone forget to tell them this is code for the N-word? We know they don’t mean “Law and Order” on Wall Street or K Street. On which streets do they want Law and Order? Do they mean Law and Order as it was used to give “The United States the world’s highest incarceration rate and (it) hosts more prison inmates than all other developed nations combined” or Law and Order like “the 94? Crime Bill, War on Drugs, and mandatory minimum sentencing in urban neighborhoods?” The effects of these “wars” speak for themselves. See “law and order politics.” Remember that Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, and the Hippie movement were feared by middle America. The fear was whipped up into support for restrictive laws that resulted in African Americans and poor white Americans being tossed in jail in record numbers. See From Wallace To Trump, The Evolution of “Law And Order.” See The Southern Strategy.
"Thugs," Especially “Thugs who Riot” or “Violent Thugs” or a version of that. BLM has been attacked constantly on these grounds. When black people protest they get accused of being “violent rioting thugs.” Sometimes we have seen race riots. Sometimes we’ve seen riots in Baltimore. Sometimes, though, peaceful protests like the MLK marches elicited the same degree of fear and violence. In all cases, they got the same label, which is unfair. The reality of this aside, the related code-words are used by politicians to dredge up a Black Scare. The ways people can exercise their rights is a side-point for our “code word” conversation.
States’ Rights. States’ Rights are a fundamental principle of federalism, and they are closely related to the idea of popular sovereignty. These are the classical liberal principles that make America the land of liberty. They are also at the heart of America’s racial debates. In this context, “states’ rights” refers to “the right of the state” to not follow the same rules as the Federal government. Pre-Civil War that debate was central to “the right to own slaves” and “the right for new states to be slave states.” After the Civil War, it became “the right to enforce black codes.” After Civil Rights 64? it was “the right not to embrace the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts,” “the right to segregate,” “the right to not bus,” “the right to deny social welfare programs.” In the modern day, it is “the right not to expand Medicaid” and such. So, in relation to the N-word, the subtext is “we states have the right to deny rights to black people or poor people or Hispanic people.” Confusing, right? See “the states’ rights Dixiecrat party.” See “John C. Calhoun.” See “Barry Goldwater’s 64? campaign.”
Urban/Inner-City. “You can’t publicly say black people don’t like to work, but people can get away with saying that there’s an inner-city culture in which generations of people don’t value work.” Then they demonize big government and the left and call people Communists and Socialists for wanting social programs that help urban areas. Is this what they mean about repeal ObamaCare, and school vouchers, and food stamps, and ObamaPhones? It is not just that, but it is that. Remember, one major party favors urban America (today Democrats, used to be Republicans); the other rural (likewise today Republicans, used to be Democrats). While many Black Americans live in the rural South, Black America tends to be underrepresented there. Tell me the last time the black belt, which is both a region of the Deep South and a region in which southern black Americans had lived since long before 1865, swung an election? Since the first Great Migration of 1910–1930 and the Second Great Migration of 1940-1970, many African Americans have moved to urban areas in an attempt to find greater opportunity to enjoy the civil and voting rights of northern cities. We can’t pretend racism doesn’t exist in both parties or the North and South or that northern cities aren’t highly segregated. In this conversation, the migration to cities in the hope of a “new deal” has since equated “black people” with being “urban” or “inner city.” See What Does Paul Ryan Really Mean by the Phrase “Inner City?” Google Ngram Offers a Clue.
“Welfare.” If in your mind you see black America as a poor urban dwelling lot, then it is easy to equate them with welfare.

Much more at link.

[rurallib]

7. Thanks a bunch

[leftstreet]

8. +1

good article, thanks

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. I used to have a racist neighbor who called black people...

... Democrats.

I barely ever talked to the guy, but we chatted briefly as we were both entering our apartment units. He said that he just came back from a free music concert, leaving early because "there were too many Democrats there".

So I wondered if it was a music concert related to some political rally? What did he mean? Were lots of people carrying political signs or wearing political shirts?

Then he looked at me like I must be the dumbest and most naive white guy around, explaining that it meant "black people".

Ugh. Then he seemed to realize from my expression that we wouldn't see eye to eye, and he quickly went inside his unit. And we never talked again for the remaining months that he lived there.

[cbabe]

5. Those people. As in: we don't want those people cluttering up the place.

[Walleye]

6. "Hard-working Americans" always means white people, men usually

I remember when the schools integrated about 1960 in my area. All of a sudden there were private “academies” and private swimming pool clubs.
A black guy I once worked with in NYC had been in the Air Force in the south in the 70s. He said the white redneck boys called the Black guys “Trigger”. I thought of that immediately when I saw the title of Don Junior’s book, “Triggered”. I imagine Junior must’ve heard it somewhere among his racist friends.

[leftstreet]

9. "working families" also

Which is why I HATE when Dem politicians use it. It's no different than "law and order" for dogwhistling

They should just say "people" or possibly "Americans" or whatever

[kairos12]

10. Welfare Queen.