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How bigotry enabled progressive domestic policies of the early 20th century
TA-NEHISI COATES
APR 18 2013, 2:20 PM ET
Probably the most bracing aspect of Ira Katznelson's new history of the New Deal, Fear Itself, is his portrait of the marriage of progressive domestic policy and white supremacy. I knew the outlines of this stuff, but for a flaming commie like me, the extent of the embrace is hard to take:
Far more enduring was the New Deal's intimate partnership with those in the South who preached white supremacy. For this whole period -- the last in American history when public racism was legitimate in speech and action -- southern representatives acted not on the fringes but as an indispensable part of the governing political party.
It actually starts much earlier with Woodrow Wilson who forged a "composite of racism and progressive liberalism" which "came to dominate the Democratic Party, and, with it, the content and boundaries of social reform."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism/275113/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/