Saying minorities are teaming up against the white male isn't true for most people of color.
There's plenty of distrust and resentment among Liberal whites, blacks, gays, Jews, Muslims, Asians and Latinos. In many cases these groups segregate themselves.
When these groups unify it's usually not the bigoted and hateful members who do so. It's the thoughtful, the tolerant, and the pragmatic members of that group.
That's the difference between white nationalism and minorities who unify behind a common cause.
These people just want a free/open, just and tolerant society so their kids can have a better life.
White nationalist want a better life for their children and scrap the other stuff.
I kind of agree with this, but I feel that there's a good point to be made about a slight evolution in both bigotry and "white" culture. And the numbers that came out for Trump may have allied with a white nationalist cause while not being white nationalist themselves, but rather a culturally separate demographic that was repelled by Hillary Clinton.
First off, I think I can make a strong argument that the traditional American view of
racism may actually have died out, but in its place the more complex (though no more morally acceptable)
ethnocentrism has come. In the traditional American mind, racism is very closely ties to eugenics; we associate racism with an art director's limited knowledge of genetics and blood. If your ancestors hailed from a specific continent, that defined your identity, and no matter who you were, your blood would tell.
It's incredibly stupid, and to our nation's credit, I think that idea has mostly died out.
However, that just means we've fallen back on the ancient tradition of evaluating each other's cultures while still trying to prop up our own. In medieval Europe, a Frenchmen and an Englishmen were different "races" because they didn't speak the same language. In the Middle East, nomadic tribesmen went to war over monotheism and polytheism. And now in America, economic classes have slowly been evolving into a totally different subcultures, possibly all the way into truly different cultures. Country and city folk are growing even farther apart; urban flight has made suburban areas vastly different from urban areas, and even more different from rural areas, and almost entirely different cultures once you get to the coasts versus the Midwest.
Not that it's total, mind you; my family probably still fits into the traditional and expected "white American" category. But my family has been developing over a century to keep pace with that category: we're a middle class Protestant clan that started educating at least one of their kids to the college level three generations back and now expects
every single member to graduate college. We're the people the education system evolved around. Heck, I find myself struggling sometimes to understand the priorities and believes of my own students, even when I speak the same language and go to the same church. But that's because my family has been taken care of by the government.
Families like the ones some of my kids hail from have no one educated past high school in their history, and not necessarily because of a lack of interest. The system simply developed beyond them in a manner similar to the way it sometimes does to racial minorities. These kids will immediately decry racism based off blood and genetics; they have no problem seeing the absolute moral repugnancy and stupidity of the Nazis and even the classic KKK. But they also have internalized opinions and beliefs based off the behavior of other cultures and their own. They can defend someone who looks different and hails from a different bloodline as long as they fit in among them. These kids would never believe the concept behind such things as the "single drop" law... but they ar convinced that city folk want to take their guns and move their jobs away entirely.
And at some point, possibly tied to the rise of the Clinton Democrats, the Democratic Party lost their connection to these people, these guys who go beyond "redneck" and get the derogatory name "white trash." And without the Democratic Party to focus them into Progressive policies, they succumbed to the "us vs. them" rhetoric that once powered the Dixiecrats and joined with single issue voters who don't care beyond that single issue and other such demographics to swing the swing states red for a repugnant candidate. That's how a family like mine that voted solidly Republican in the last two elections could mostly flip for Hillary, and yet have others fill up our place. We're conservative in that the status quo is already working for us, and these new guys are looking for something- anything- that can make the status quo work for them.
