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Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril

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Building Ideological Loyalty Among Poor Whites

Creating an ideological system was crucial to garner the loyalty and support of poor whites as they were the ones who would be the soldiers fighting for a cause. This system aimed to align the identity of poor whites with the plutocracy and separate them from blacks through the political ideology of racism.

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