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The problem was democracy itself: American opinion was turning against Southern racism.

White supremacists vowed ​ “massive resistance,” with Virginia’s Prince Edward County going so far as to shutter its entire public school system for several years.īut the intellectual theorists of white race privilege recognized that such head-on confrontations wouldn’t protect the old Jim Crow order for long. What set the machinery of formal democracy lurching backward so dramatically? In Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, Nancy MacLean traces the origins to the backlash against Brown v. The problem was democracy itself: American opinion was turning against Southern racism.

The intellectual theorists of white race privilege recognized that such head-on confrontations wouldn’t protect the old Jim Crow order for long.