US propaganda claimed racism had vanished in every community, against contrary polling evidence.

Evidence

But still, the USIA pamphlet stated that at the turn of the century, “the majority of whites, northern as well as southern, were unabashed in their estimate of the Negro as an inferior…. Today, there is scarcely a community where that concept has not been drastically modified.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1277

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did the USIA rationalize claims that directly contradicted contemporaneous Roper data? Worth chasing the internal policymaking of the pamphlet’s production.