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Tag: Race

Reconciling the Various Reasons for Trump

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 15, 2017 Posted in Economics, Society Tagged with Election, Race, Trump

After the election, I concluded that Trump won with three appeals: Bring back jobs Drain the swamp Build the wall and that I approved of the first two. (It’s now clear that all three are unlikely to happen.) Many people …

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How to Regard This Week’s Race Conflicts

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 9, 2016 Posted in Peace, Politics, Society Tagged with Fear, Guns, Race, Saletan

William Saletan has written a Slate article There Is a War Over Race in America in which he brilliantly redraws the dividing line: This is the central thing to understand about what happened in Dallas: Black people who target whites are …

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Race in America

By Phil Mayes Posted on November 9, 2008 Posted in Politics, Society, Uncategorized Tagged with Election, Race

There has been much comment that this was a post-racial election.  Yes and no.  Look at the electoral shifts since 2004.  A broad swath across the center of the country voted MORE Republican than in 2004, and I can see …

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