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Can we make political history a thing in the US?
We've had 5 to 6 party systems in the US depending on who you talk to. We are not a two party system, yet we naturally only ever have two dominant parties. One of the things that has always separated the parties is the rights and freedoms of black citizens.
I think Trump election fit in the timeline of when the US goes through political shifts. Of course we don't know what the long term effects of Trump will be, but I would guess white identity and white nationalism will be a new banner for politicians going forward. Certainly as we see a decline in the white population, there will more efforts to "protect" that majority. We will see more calls to establish English as the national language. The idea that [white is a race](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification) is wrong, and more people are recognizing there aren't different races of humans. This movement highlights the decline of whites in America. However, the decline in whites will be the result of cross race breeding and people no longer recognizing white as a race. The figures often cited of white decline typically never mention that by 2060 it is predicted whites will be 74% of the population and still the largest group.
I debate whether Trump is a natural progression of White Supremacy or more of a reaction against Obama. I think the point is somewhat moot, because if Trump is only a reaction to a black president or if he a progression of white supremacy, he is still promoting racist ideology.
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Edited for links to maps of each era. Edited for more info. Book about this topic: White Supremacy by George Fredrickson.
It is not beyond me. In fact, I would agree that if you only voted for Hillary to avoid appearing as sexist than you've behaved in a sexist way that is degrading to women. My point is that you don't have to have done something consciously to have made your decisions in a sexist way.
I don't think that most people who voted for Trump thought to themselves "I don't think a woman should be president because women are less competent than men." Some did, I saw them on TV. But prejudice is more subtle and pernicious than blatant thoughts like that. That is why I provided an example to try to illustrate my point. You could have, while weighing the facts in front of you, weighed them differently for the man than the woman because of your internal biases.
My point is, most people don't think in blatant sexist, racist, bigoted terms. That type of thinking doesn't jive with the values that most people in this country hold. But it's not that easy to identify prejudices! That is a super oversimplified way to view bias and prejudice. I would suggest further reading on the subject because it is very complex and I clearly didn't explain it in a way that you understand. A book I read in my South African history class was pretty helpful in this regard - White Supremacy. It was really awkward to walk around campus with that book. But it really gets into the elaborate mental frameworks people will build to double-think their way around blatant racism.
> NO ONE used the term supremacist term 2 years ago
Here's a book called "White Supremacy" from 30 years ago, which talks about a racial superiority concept that has been around since the 1700s (the concept has been around for longer).
>We used to live in relative harmony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954%E2%80%931968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
You seem to be ill-informed of American history.