Segregationist warnings framed growing black voting power as the threat

Evidence

This is not intended to stir race prejudice because all of us want to deal fairly with them, but do you want to hand them political control of Atlanta, either as a majority or a powerful minority vote? — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 94

Categorization

• DEFINE: A window into the rhetorical packaging of the segregationist case — disavowing race prejudice while naming white control of government as the real stake.
• XREF: connects to: Georgia’s segregationist governor-elect advocated armed intimidation to suppress black voting in 1946 — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 60; American voter-suppression tactics derive from pro-slavery and segregationist ideologies. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 663; Fear of Black political power was framed as alien invasion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1763 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Fear of Black political power was framed as alien invasion #expands (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1763
• Racist prediction framing makes Black political success read as tyranny. #corroborates (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 653
• Racialized urban voters are explicitly targeted by structural vote-suppression arguments #corroborates (0.78) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 658
• Racist ideas are produced to justify the policy alienation of Black nonvoters #corroborates (0.74) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1073
• American voter-suppression tactics derive from pro-slavery and segregationist ideologies. #expands (0.72) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 663
• Segregation drew on degenerationist fear and racial historicist separation as twin fuels #qualifies (0.72)
• White fear of Black criminality became a political resource after the Civil Rights era #expands (0.71) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 819