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Why white people like Republicans
By Alan Bean The American electorate is more racially divided in 2012 than at any time in the recent memory. This encourages the simple conclusion that white Americans prefer Mitt Romney to Barack Ob… more →
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Why white people like Republicans
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wrote 7 months ago: By Alan Bean The American electorate is more racially divided in 2012 than at any time in the recent … more →
Are Texas Democrats ready to take Latinos seriously?
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wrote 10 months ago: Political consultant Chuck Rocha By Alan Bean With every new election cycle, the Latino share of the … more →
Southern Baptists poised to elect a black president; is this significant?
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wrote 1 year ago: The Rev. Fred Luter The Southern Baptist Convention is poised to elect its first African-American pr … more →
Anticipating a non-white America
wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean Peter Laarman speaks what every honest historian knows to be true: America was founded … more →
Super PAC ad exploits white ignorance of black church
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wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean I frequently tell audiences how our family was virtually excommunicated from polite soc … more →
Land's apology doesn't impress Black Southern Baptists
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wrote 1 year ago: The Reverend Dwight McKissic By Alan Bean Stories can bring us together, and they can drive us apart … more →
Richard Land's Trayvon problem deepens
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wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean Update: Richard Land has issued an apology for the remarks referenced in this post. Sou … more →
Beyond the New Jim Crow?
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wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean When a book about the criminal justice system sells 175,000 books, something is afoot. … more →
"The Power to Make us One": Heather McGhee's One-People America
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wrote 1 year ago: Heather McGhee By Alan Bean Heather McGhee, the Director of Demos’ Washington Office, was the … more →
The Californication of America: A review of Darren Dochuk's "From Bible Belt to Sunbelt"
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wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean I received a copy of Darren Dochuk’s From Bible Belt to Sun Belt as a birthday present … more →
Texas redistricting case: A challenge to the Voting Rights Act?
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wrote 1 year ago: The redistricting saga in Texas is causing concern throughout the nation. Not only could the redistr … more →
Pat Buchanan may be finished at MSNBC
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wrote 1 year ago: Conservative icon Pat Buchanan may be losing his pulpit at left-leaning MSNBC. Reports in the Washi … more →
Arlington ISD turns thumbs down on Cesar Chavez holiday (yet again)
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wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean To the surprise of no one, the students of Arlington were once again denied a May holid … more →
Pat Buchanan appears on white supremacist radio show
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wrote 1 year ago: MSNBC commentator, Pat Buchanan, recently appeared on a white supremacist radio show to promote his … more →
"Perrymandered" electoral map could backfire
wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean Once upon a time, the red-red state of Texas was Dixiecrat Blue. That changed at the f … more →
Rick Perry's curious bedfellows
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wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean I got an email from Justin Elliott earlier this week inquiring about “The Will to … more →
A mayor and a prophet lock horns in a Southern town
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wrote 1 year ago: Diane Nash addresses crowd as Mayor Cheri Barry looks on By Alan Bean On Saturday, June 18th, Friend … more →
Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again: a Mississippi town mirrors the soul of a nation
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wrote 1 year ago: By Alan Bean A monument to “The memory of Carroll’s Confederate Soldiers who fought in d … more →
The slow death of the 14th amendment
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wrote 2 years ago: Richard Beeman On May 4, amateur historian David Barton appeared on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. … more →
