President Johnson feared a Black-planter political alliance against poor Whites

Evidence

When someone retorted that Blacks were a majority in South Carolina, a miffed Johnson elaborated on his true fear: that Black voters looked down on poor Whites and would forge a political alliance with planters to rule them. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 636

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates how segregationist and antiracist fears were inverted — here the segregationist feared Black voters would oppress poor Whites, exactly reversing the dominant power relation.