Multiracial democracy and white Christian nationhood are logically incompatible in the US
Evidence
The United States cannot be both a truly multiracial democracy—a people of people and a nation of nations—and a white Christian nation at the same time. This is why white Christian nationalism has become a serious threat to American democracy, perhaps the most serious threat it now faces. — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 49
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: White Americans’ prejudice clashed with their own democratic and Christian values — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2159; Systematic racial nativism openly repudiated democratic and Christian values — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 946; Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Christian nationalism conflates whiteness with Christian American identity
#expands(0.90) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 14 - Citizenship in America has historically been tied to whiteness and Christianity
#corroborates(0.85) - America faces a forced choice between the value gap and multiracial democracy.
#expands(0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 593 - White Americans’ prejudice clashed with their own democratic and Christian values
#corroborates(0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2159 - Denying citizenship on religious grounds helped construct American whiteness.
#expands(0.82) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 117 - US government has used religion to justify racial subordination throughout history
#corroborates(0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1068 - Systematic racial nativism openly repudiated democratic and Christian values
#complicates(0.78) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 946 - White race-national identity requires transcendental grounding because race cannot otherwise claim ontological status.
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1525 - Christian nationalism is radical, not conservative, and undermines democratic institutions
#corroborates(0.75) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 33 - Perceived white Christian persecution drives opposition to voter access
#complicates(0.75) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 48 - Anti-Catholicism predated and is not identical to racial nativism
#qualifies(0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 31