“Speaking In The Abstract”: How The Right Talks About Race, Even When They’re Not Talking About Race

In 1982, Republican operative Lee Atwater gave an interview to Alexander Lamis, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University, in which he explained how the so-called “Southern Strategy” of focusing on race had become much more subtle by the 1980s. Atwater, who apologized to Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis for the “naked cruelty” of his […]