A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher draws on surveys of battleground voters he conducted from 2008 through the 2016 primary season to track what he calls racial aversion during Barack Obama's presidency. Belcher argues that the country's racial fault lines run from slavery and Jim Crow to modern disputes over voting access and districting, and that the election of the first Black president provoked a backlash among anxious white voters that helps explain the rise of Donald Trump.
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- Hillary Clinton: “Cornell Belcher, a respected Democratic pollster, has studied changing... documented this backlash in his book A Black Man in the White House.”