by David Morse | Uncategorized
It’s Black history month, a time of year we hear from Angry White People about the need to have their own month. Aside from the folly of seeing these racial history months as a zero-sum game, this white grievance has reached a fever pitch since the rise of...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
You may have suspected this already, but the Southern Poverty Law Center has confirmed it: 2016 was a banner year for hate groups in the U.S. According to the annual SPLC report, the number of hate groups rose to 917 in 2016, up from 892 in 2015. The report shows...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
With a travel ban on predominately Muslim countries – though not those where the President has a financial interest – this would be a good time to revisit what Americans think of Muslims generally. The latest survey from Pew, conducted in 2014, gives some...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
On this Martin Luther King Day, we have an analysis of a Pew survey about attitudes about race. Only one of the takeaways of this survey was the wealth gap, which is not terribly surprising: Blacks lag behind whites in homeownership, household wealth and median...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
This article from the Washington Post is another in a long and continuing line of How Did This Happen analyses of the presidential election. This one uses the theory that nostalgia for White Christian America – presumably in the 1950s, whether or not they...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
A new report by the independent Economic Cycle Research Institute, covers a lot of economic ground with it statistics on employment and economics over the past nine years. But this sentence in the report stands out: Whites actually have fewer jobs than nine years ago,...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Here’s another in a series of articles exploring What the Heck Happened on November 8, particularly where it involves that vaunted White Working Class voter. According to The Atlantic article, Clinton didn’t lose their votes because she didn’t...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Elections are about a lot of things, obviously. People vote for a variety of reasons, obviously. But when you have white nationalists (AKA white supremacists) jumping for joy at the election of someone who they think will “bring their world view into...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Wait. Keep reading. We know that elections have a lot of moving pieces and there are many ways to explain a “loss”: we put that in quotes because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, possibly by more than two million when all from California are counted....
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Make America great again? Has the candidate with that slogan ever asked what was the last year America was great? We haven’t heard it. But for his supporters, that year might have been the last time they had an unquestioned dominance in the body politic and in...
