Post-2010 North Carolina GOP laws hardened racial habits.

Evidence

On February 7, 2014, I flew to Raleigh, North Carolina, to join with tens of thousands of other like-minded people to protest the draconian laws passed by the North Carolina state legislature. Since 2010, while many people—especially black people—were still reeling from the 2008 recession/depression, Republicans eliminated Medicaid coverage for half a million North Carolinians, passed a voter-ID law designed to disenfranchise primarily African American voters, transferred $90 million from public schools to voucher schools and cut pre-K for 30,000 children, passed a law requiring women about to have an abortion to listen to the heartbeat of the fetus, repealed the earned income tax credit for 900,000 people, and constitutionally banned gay marriage. North Carolina Republicans had declared war. They represented clear examples of those who hold a view of government that hardens hearts and reinforces racial habits. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 522

Categorization

• XREF: The concrete NC GOP agenda parallels the voter-ID and austerity measures Glaude names earlier as value-gap expressions; connects to his key-term definitions. — connects to: Aggressive gerrymandering gives North Carolina Republicans supermajority power in a purple state — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 78; North Carolina exemplifies plutocratic rule despite near-even party demographics — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 81