1. I'm going to tweet a little about the Heritage event & racial polorization in USA politics: http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-heritages-ugly-benghazi-panel/2014/06/16/b8bd423c-f5a3-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html?hpid=z6 …
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2. Basic facts are known: in increasingly racially diverse USA, GOP remains overwhelmingly white while Dems are multi-racial
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3. Story of this racial polorization is usually told (rightly) in big pictures: 1964, Southern Strategy, Reagan's dog whistles, etc.
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4. But behind the big picture story there is also little stories of micro-aggressions and fending off of non-whites from GOP by the GOP.
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5. There's an anecdote about this in the recent Heinlein bio. In 1964 Heinlein was very active in Goldwater movement in Colorado.
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6. 1964, black woman calls Colorado for Goldwater office, says she likes what BG is saying, wants to support, what can she do to help?
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7. Head of Colorado for Goldwater isn't sure he wants black woman to help. Suggests she set up separate blacks for Goldwater group
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8. This incident drove Heinlein nuts -- he got into huge fight with Colorado Goldwater leader and ended up marginalized from party.
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9. Point of the story is that if you have a racially paranoid party it doesn't even want to have non-white supporters -- will repulse them.
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10. The Heritage event is a similar example of the sort of micro-aggression that drives the racial polorization of electorate.
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11. Here you have a woman who, if she weren't a Muslim, would be hugely welcome in GOP: a pro-life conservative.
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12. The genuinely pathological nature of racism is evident when you have to reject someone who is exactly like you except in one detail.
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13. There's lots of people of color from all backgrounds who have some conservative inclinations & might lean GOP. These voters not wanted.
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