White Americans Oppose Fed Programs to Spite Other Races

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Research reveals that white people appear to support social safety net programs unless they perceive those programs as also helping nonwhites ... "This effect only appears when people compare their political standing directly to that of racial minorities ...

... in many developed nations, high levels of income inequality usually lead to increased public demand for these programs ...

the U.S. is different in this regard ... University of Delaware scientists Sumeyye Mine Iltekin Gocer and Joanne M. Miller learned ... that hostility to safety net programs appears to be ...

primarily with White people " even those in poverty " because they fear the programs give nonwhites a boost.

Posted by Corky at 04:54 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink

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"Or to use the less technical version, we can not have nice things (h/t Digby).

1/3rd of our fellow Americans would rather be poor and homeless because they would be force to share with Persons of Color.

As Chris Hayes argued on his program All In, T*ump's base, approximately 37% of the voting population, is effectively "holding the rest of the country hostage".

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LBJ's Warning on White Resentment Still Haunts America

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"We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs.

Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs.

"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Billy Moyers quoting LBJ

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So, bottom line, Corporatists have for decades built upon this racial prejudice to finally obtain a Voter Base that they could control with fears of minorities, immigrants, an anyone else they can give said Base an opportunity to look down on, such as women or Democrats or trans or gay or women who have abortions.

Divide and Conquer is alive and well in Project25 Trump's 'Murica.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-21 05:05 PM