Work years ago by the economists Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote concluded that racial barriers – fear, contempt, mistrust – are a big reason the United States did not develop the rich safety net that the more ethnically homogeneous democracies of western Europe built to protect their people from economic calamities. Indeed, when he started building the American safety net, FDR tailored New Deal programs to exclude Black Americans in order to get white southern Democrats onboard. On the day he signed the Civil Rights Act into law, President Lyndon Johnson, a southern Democrat, adroitly observed to his aide Bill Moyers: "I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime – and mine."
In any event, ethnic resentment has become the central focus of Trump's domestic policy…
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/18/trump-race-inflation
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