Does racial strife influence presidential elections?

[mia]

Is it about power structures?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. 1968. NT

[mia]

4. The elections of 1860 and 1968

What 1860 and 1968 can teach America about the 2020 presidential election

Fresh evidence of the nastiness and divisiveness of the 2020 presidential election emerges every day.

President Trump has let loose a storm of invective over Twitter about various African American public figures and about the conditions of life in America’s inner cities. The president seems bent on exploiting a rural/urban divide and creating racial cleavage as a way to get re-elected....

Democrats have responded by denouncing the president’s racially tinged language and accusing the president and his supporters of being the ones destroying the country....

Nasty, divisive elections are nothing new in the United States. As someone who teaches and writes about the importance of historical memory in American law and politics, I believe the 2020 election will rival the ugliest America has ever witnessed....

https://theconversation.com/what-1860-and-1968-can-teach-america-about-the-2020-presidential-election-121294

[GeorgeGist]

2. Bob Kroll bucking for head of FBI?

[LuvNewcastle]

3. It's the reason so many white southerners became Republicans

after being Democrats for generations. Nixon used his Southern Strategy to court southern whites while blacks came to be identified with the Democratic Party. It was also partially the reason Reagan got elected. Racial problems are some of the biggest influences on our power structures.

[Baclava]

5. "The Law & Order candidate", oh yes, spreading fear the racial violence could come to the suburbs

[Caliman73]

6. Racial strife and racial bias influence everything.

Conservatism is and has been about maintaining the power structures that have been in place historically and I mean historically like since the time of monarchy. Capitalists or wealthy merchants replaced the monarchs as the standard for who should be in charge. Racism is built in to that structure and ideology.

Presidential elections are definitely influenced by racial strife and by racial issues regardless of active strife.