Is the Republican party a racist party?

[All Along The Watchtower]

To those blue avatars saying No:

Remind me again who your party's presidential frontrunner is?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Let's not delude ourselves into thinking that educated middle class suburban whites (in the South or elsewhere, for that matter) were less racist than poor, rural, undereducated, and working class (and I note that these terms are not interchangeable!) whites in any significant way. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of how the mass suburbs of the 20th century developed (and in many cases, why they developed) could tell you that racism was deeply embedded into the suburban environment  - particularly in regard to real estate and schools.

On an interpersonal level, there's a disturbing tendency to equate education and affluence with being less racist. Just because the racism of upscale suburban whites is more 'subtle' (and even that is not always the case) doesn't mean it's any less of a thing. If anything, the combination of less 'obvious' racism with middle class elitism and entitlement is more insidious (and therefore, more dangerous) than the more blatant forms of racism often associated with downscale whites.