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Peark K. Ford Dowe: A Struggle to Maintain Privilege

Pearl K. Ford Dowe is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Arkansas.

The survey by the Public Religion Research Institute is consistent with previous research showing that white working-class Southerners with limited education feel that they are held back economically and socially, just as African-American Southerners are.

But the potential for multiracial coalitions to address these issues is made less likely by the rightward drift of white Southerners and their aversion to potential African-American partners....

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