Why Some White Liberals Will Probably Vote For Donald Trump. (HuffPo)

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58. That is the point. People who consider themselves Liberal aren't "out and proud".

They are people who generally hold liberal ideas about freedom of ideas and some sense of general welfare. If they are White however, they are still susceptible to the idea that "too much" is being given to racial minorities. They can support integration of schools but just not their neighborhood school.

I experienced that first hand in my progressive city when our school district proposed closing schools. We fought hard to keep our neighborhood school open and were successful, but the very allies in doing so turned and turned in an ugly way, when the plan turned from keeping our school open to keeping our school open and absorbing a large percentage of poorer Latino students from the school that closed.

The article is based on a study that was done in a peer reviewed journal. The subjects were people who identified as Liberal. The results are that you can hold liberal beliefs about many different things but when it comes to the very deeply ingrained ideas about race, those liberal ideals can sometimes take a back seat.

It is an area of discomfort for many White people who identify themselves as liberals or progressives but it exists.

I am a person of color, but I still have to consciously battle against the racial attitudes that were taught to me by my family, my community, and society in general. I have members of my own family who are people of color, who were immigrants or born to immigrants, who hold ideas that are contrary to my own.

We are all susceptible to rhetoric that may align with certain values that we are not proud of, that we may not even be consciously aware of.