Openly racist nationalist parties draw minimal electoral support at the polls.

Evidence

The SU, which many predicted would do well during the October 2000 parliamentary elections, especially in the southern regions, captured only 1.47 percent of the national vote. The group fared even worse in the December 2001 parliamentary elections, capturing only 0.57 percent of the vote and not winning a single seat in parliament. The SU did not contest the April 2004 elections; it instead helped create the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), comprised solely of Buddhist monks, which stunned the electorate when it captured nine votes in parliament that year. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 169

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on prior note: the SU’s patent racism failed at the polls, suggesting virulent communal parties are electorally weak even in a society with communal tensions; but a monks-only party then won nine seats — a striking divergence worth the reader’s attention. — connects to: Politicians adopt racist rhetoric for votes rather than conviction — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 947; Racist expression is rarely clear or unequivocal — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1908
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 169

Broader Connections

• Politicians adopt racist rhetoric for votes rather than conviction #complicates (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 947
• Racist expression is rarely clear or unequivocal #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1908