Black Southern voters’ party loyalty functions as ethnic cartelization blocking insurgents.

Evidence

Their loyalty to local Democratic politicians, in a particular form of ethnic cartelization, was beyond question. If they had even heard of him in the first place, Sanders struck them as a risk rather than an opportunity: likely to inflame GOP revanchism with his redistributive plans, and unreliable in his commitment to voting rights in remoter states. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 239

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes chapter-4 claim that US parties were never mass parties but functioned via associations, now applied to ethnic-loyalty voting patterns. — connects to: The Democratic Party functions as a state department, not a real party — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 324; A Democratic black voting bloc slowed Southern whites’ natural dealignment from the Democratic Party. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 186

Broader Connections

• A Democratic black voting bloc slowed Southern whites’ natural dealignment from the Democratic Party. #expands (0.95) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 186