Holy Shit, Hector's Twisted History...
TruthNotBs, I do not completely disagree with you, but I have a different angle on this.
The United States responded well to the twin challenges of the Great Depression and the Second World War because 90% of the U.S. population was white, and most Negroes were restricted to de facto second class citizenship: they were denied the right to vote; they could not serve on juries.
90% of the population wasn't white... The 89% who counted as "White" included Hispanics...
Not sure why you consider that a good thing.
Because Negroes could not vote they could not vote for welfare benefits for their illegitimate children. Because Negroes could not serve on juries they could not practice jury nullification when a black man was on trial for murdering one or more whites.
It also meant that white people could convict and execute innocent black people, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't bother you.
Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal were popular among Southern whites and working class whites. They knew that they could vote for high taxes on rich people and corporations to pay for benefits for themselves without also voting for equality with Negroes.
You miss a number of key components, one of those being that FDR coalition included northern urban whites and blacks, who had migrated there after WWI to get all those new factory jobs. If FDR only had to rely on Bubba and Billy-Bob,
The problem was, the South wasn't a whole lot of help getting the New Deal Passed. Conservative Southerners were the defacto opposition party during the first two terms. By 1936, the GOP was reduced to 18 seats in the Senate, and 86 in the house. This is the problem with southern whites. You're fucking stupid. You were stupid 150 years ago when you went out and caught bullets for rich slave owners, you were stupid 90 years ago when FDR was creating a middle class and you said "We don't need us no yankee unions!"
Southern whites and working class whites would have begrudgingly accepted the civil rights legislation and the War on Poverty if these had improved the behavior of Negroes. Instead they led to five years of black ghetto rioting from 1964 to 1968, and more enduring increases in black social pathology. Black academic performance improved very little. School integration turned safe learning environments for whites into black board jungles where little learning occurred because whites were not safe from black juvenile delinquents who could not be educated and who violently interfered with the education of whites who could be educated.
You miss the point, as usual. The biggest worry the powers that be had was black people might start saying, in the middle of the Cold War, "Hey, that Communism stuff sounds pretty good!"
Here's what caused black "social pathology"... it was watching white people get off the boat and get in line ahead of them. Then Asians get of the planes and they are in line ahead of them.
Ever try to cut in line somewhere? People don't like it. It's probably how you got stuffed in that locker.
Southern whites and working class whites felt betrayed, so they left the Democrat Party and began voting Republican. The Republican Party promoted tax cuts for the rich and deregulation, leading to the growing income gap.
Any white person who felt betrayed because Blacks could have the same things they take for granted is kind of awful.
President Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930's turned millions of unemployed whites into a law abiding, tax paying working class. President Johnson's Great Society of the 1960's turned millions of low income blacks into an unemployable underclass, the members of which often supplement their welfare checks with the gains from crime.
Um, except the Black unemployment has pretty much mirrored white unemployment.
