Conservative minority-veto impulses recur whenever demographic change threatens white political dominance

Evidence

It was a strikingly blunt defense of Jim Crow and affirmation of white supremacy from the father of the conservative movement. Later, when key civil rights questions had been settled by law, Buckley would essentially renounce these views, praising the movement and criticizing race-baiting demagogues like George C. Wallace. Still, his initial impulse—to give white political minorities a veto not just over policy but over democracy itself—reflected a tendency that would express itself again and again in the conservative politics he ushered into the mainstream, emerging when political, cultural, and demographic change threatened a narrow, exclusionary vision of American democracy. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reframing thesis: minority veto as ‘deviation vs design’ — the reader’s core organizing idea for this book. — connects to: Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 1; Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 8; Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 90 (+3 more)