Modern conservatism abandoned explicit white supremacy for color-blind individualism

Evidence

This wasn’t your old-fashioned racism. Now the people who had once declared the importance of racial distinctions and an explicit commitment to white supremacy embraced a lesson they found in King himself: true justice was color-blind. … What conservatives wanted now was not a restoration of the pre-Brown social order with its memories, customs, institutions, and rules of racial place and etiquette. They did not want history restored, or even remembered. What conservatives wanted now, they insisted, was a common, equal playing field and judgment on the basis of individual merit alone. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 299

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing knowledge of the southern strategy and how racial ideology shifts form rather than disappearing — parallels discussions of the value gap persisting under new rhetorical clothes. — connects to: Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1580; Conservative strategists deliberately coded racial appeals to evade egalitarian norms — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 3; Contemporary right-wing politics elevate performativity and white supremacy in schools — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 922 (+6 more)