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  Republicans are dominated by White Protestant male conservatives. Of course it's racist. A desperate attempt to prolong a faded power structure dating back to the Puritans.
context: It’s always been around but it really got going with the rise of the Tea Party in 2010 as a reaction to a black man being elected POTUS. >
  
  The white backlash started after Obama, when racist Americans elected the first person (Donald Trump and his dad) to be sued by Nixon's DOJ in 1973 for violating the Civil Rights Act's Fair Housing Act, for refusing to rent to Black people. >
  
  After Obama won, Republicans in my podunk hometown lynched and burned Obama effigies on the courthouse lawn.
  White guys used to come into the Walmart I worked at when I did gun sales and talk about needing to hoard ammo to shoot "n-words" because Obama was coming to kill white conservatives.
  They all swore, and still swear, they aren't racist though. >
  
  Are you in the Greater Houston area, because this sounds like 100% of the machinist shops I did repair work in...
  Only, there was never an "n-word" self censoring or an attempt to look left and right. These people fully, absolutely believe that the greatest American pastime is the Jasper Drag Race.