White supremacy shifted from explicit defense to coded euphemism after the 1960s.

Evidence

Instead of defending segregation, institutionalized discrimination, and white supremacy, the new right invoked the code words of “Jaw and order”; instead of advocating for systemic patriarchy and justifying male chauvinism, it upheld “family values”; instead of justifying yet again the duplicitous and unpopular war in Vietnam (which, after the April 1968 Tet offensive and the massive anti-war demonstrations of Fall 1969, the U.S. was now clearly losing), the Nixon administration now claimed to be seeking “peace with honor.” These were the early days of racial rearticulation, when white supremacy was in the process to be steered away from the racist past whose repressive and indeed despotic policies had been discredited. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 191

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The ‘law and order’ / ‘family values’ pairing resonates with the reader’s work on code words as ideological signaling, parallel to the moral-panic material on dress and sacrifice.

Related

• Right-wing politics rearticulated white supremacy into code words rather than overt racism (similarity 0.92)