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                                             July 22, 2021

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From "The Sum of Us", "Racism Drained the Pool" p. 30:

    "But my data analyst colleague Sean McElwee and I found that
    white people with high levels of resentment against Black
    people have become far more likely to oppose government
    spending generically: as of the latest ANES data in 2016,
    there was a sixty-point difference in support for increased
    government spending based on whether you were a white person
    with high versus low racial resentment.  Government, it
    turned out, had become a highly racialized character in the
    white story of our country."

    "When the people with power in a society see a portion of the
    populace as inferior and undeserving, their definition of 'the
    public' becomes conditional.  It's often unconscious, but their
    perception of the Other as undeserving is so important to their
    perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart
    the web that supports everyone, including them.  Public goods,
    in other words, are only for the public we perceive to be good."



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