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I could imagine a situation where white middle class home owners no longer derive prestige from being white but they are still homeowners/small business owners and they will make common cause with upwardly mobile Black and Latino home/business owners.
After Romney, I thought for sure this would be the direction the GOP moved to: the voice of an increasingly multi-ethnic upper middle and Mass affluent class.
In my own experience, I’ve found highly educated black and brown people in prestige jobs find they have more in common with each other than with their own families. The right could have dropped the dog whistling and provided a voice to this emerging voter block.
But instead they doubled down on white supremacy and have put themselves on a path whose doom is predicted by the country’s demographics unless they bestow “whiteness” on a large population. Latin Americans are a somewhat obvious choice, but they’d have to drop their xenophobic border fear mongering. East Asians present a similar problem with the CPC boogeyman.
In a way, I’m relieved they didn’t pivot away from racism given the moderate success they’ve had with 3rd and 4th generation Mexican-Americans (no longer Chicanos) along the border even while demonizing Central American refugees.