Working-class whites greeted open fascist segregationism with mass enthusiasm.

Evidence

For two days, they drove sound trucks through the tension area, publicizing an upcoming meeting at the nearby Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall. Some two hundred residents attended, including many women with children in tow. “A week ago, we were only an organization,” Burke announced, “but we have grown because we have helped you with your problem niggers.” The Columbians, Burke lied, patrolled the neighborhood armed only with “two fists and an iron will.” Without that protection, everything working-class whites cherished would be lost. “Our heroes in Europe didn’t die to give a nigger the right to marry a white American girl,” he thundered. “That’s right!” roared the crowd, which had now become what a reporter could only describe as a “cheering, whistling, Rebel-yelling, foot-stamping throng.” Burke shredded the charter and stomped on it. The crowd stomped with him, clapping and screaming “Send the little pieces to the Jews!” — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 117

Categorization

• XREF: The chant to send charter pieces ‘to the Jews’ connects group segregationism to antisemitism, echoing other chapters’ treatment of white supremacist movements blending targets. — connects to: Radical segregationists recruited industrial workers through staged open-air rallies — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 112; Northern whites expressed abundant support for segregation — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 979; White workers cemented segregation to protect their labor advantages — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1459 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Northern whites expressed abundant support for segregation #corroborates (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 979
• Housing scarcity and residential transition drove working-class whites into organized racism #expands (0.82) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 104
• Newly assimilated ethnic Whites enforced segregation to protect their fresh racial privilege #expands (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 418
• The anti-busing movement mobilized white suburban middle-class moderates, not just ideologues. #complicates (0.76) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 68
• White workers cemented segregation to protect their labor advantages #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1459
• Atlanta’s ward system concentrated power in white working-class neighborhoods. #exemplifies (0.75) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 65
• Ordinary segregationists, not politicians, sustained flexible white resistance #qualifies (0.74) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 29
• White resistance groups recast themselves as citizens with rights to justify segregation. #qualifies (0.73) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 169
• De jure segregation served to unite white populations facing internal conflict #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1751
• White suffragists openly argued suffrage would secure white supremacy. #exemplifies (0.72) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 372
• White supremacists mobilize far more around race-mixing threats than around supremacy claims. #complicates (0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 991
• Fascism unified the bourgeoisie and gave it renewed class consciousness. #complicates (0.71) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 202