You don’t need to tell me if you are. I can see it with my own eyes.
Racist - characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
I fit that definition reasonably comfortably.
Prejudice is the result of previous experience. It can also be the result of what what can learn about average ability levels and behavior of various races. For example, I am prejudiced in favor of Jews and Orientals because they tend to be intelligent, law abiding and monogamous.
There is often wisdom in tradition. Over the years I have come reluctantly to suspect that in states with large black populations Jim Crow legislation was based on sound instinct.
Kevin Philips' book
The Emerging Republican Majority was published January 1, 1969, but he began to write it in 1966, when the Republican Party was still reeling from the election of 1964, when President Johnson was re elected in a 61% landslide, and the Democrats won two one majorities in both houses of Congress.
In his book Philips predicted that there would be a white backlash against the civil rights movement because blacks would disappoint the liberal expectation that black performance and behavior would improve as the result of whited giving blacks equal rights.
By 1969 it was obvious that that had happened. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the War on Poverty declared the same year were quickly followed by five years of black ghetto rioting, and more enduring increases in black social pathology of all kinds.
The tax revolt that got President Reagan elected and re elected was a prison riot against the war on Poverty. By the late 1970's most of us whites did not want our taxes to pay for welfare checks for blacks. We particularly did not want to support their illegitimate children.
Ronald Reagan was the white person's candidate. He made deep, satisfying cuts in welfare payments to blacks, and he encouraged the police to be much meaner toward blacks who committed crimes against decent white folks. There were no black ghetto riots during the administrations of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, although black poverty increased. Blacks were too frightened to riot.
Reagan openly pandered to white hostility toward blacks. He began his campaign in a town in Mississippi where four civil rights activists had been murdered. His speech extolled state rights. Reagan loved to use code words that appealed to white contempt for blacks.