The Guardian nails it: White working class votes for white supremacists. Period.

[gulliver]

144. The "colorblind ethic" was solid and working...

... when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. That's what I'm talking about. It's not that you're actually blind to race. It's that you make an effort not to stereotype based on race, not to favor based on race or disfavor based on it.

It wasn't perfect. Nothing is. But we had Archie Bunker and George Jefferson. We laughed at them both. We laughed with them both sometimes. The young liberals lived affectionately with the old fogies. Things were moving in the right direction.

Now we have a widespread, neurotic hyper-awareness of race. I compare it to anorexia, but it's like many such disorders, imo. It's just really bad for everybody. I think most people are getting tired of it, but, unfortunately there is a loud fringe that thinks analyzing their belly button and panicking over its concavity is some kind of intellectual or philosophical pursuit. But what it's really doing is hurting them.