Affirmative Action and the Politics of Realignment
By: GILENS, Martin; SINDERMAN, Paul M.; KUKLINSKI, James H
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ArticlePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, January 1998British Journal of Political Science 28, 1, p. 159-183Abstract: Over the past thirty years, the Democratic party has carried the mantle of racial liberalism. The party's endorsements of equal rights, fair housing laws and school busing have cost it the support of some whites, but these losses have been concentrated at the periphery of the party, among those least commited to its guiding principles or most unsympathetic to irs efforts on behalf of racial equality. We argue that with the rise of affirmative actin as the primary vehicle to advance racial equality. We argue that with the rise of affirmative action as the primary vehicle to advance racial equality, racial equality, racial politics have become divisive in a new way, and that opposition to afirmative action now encompasses whites within the liberal core of the Democratic party
Over the past thirty years, the Democratic party has carried the mantle of racial liberalism. The party's endorsements of equal rights, fair housing laws and school busing have cost it the support of some whites, but these losses have been concentrated at the periphery of the party, among those least commited to its guiding principles or most unsympathetic to irs efforts on behalf of racial equality. We argue that with the rise of affirmative actin as the primary vehicle to advance racial equality. We argue that with the rise of affirmative action as the primary vehicle to advance racial equality, racial equality, racial politics have become divisive in a new way, and that opposition to afirmative action now encompasses whites within the liberal core of the Democratic party
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