Clinton: Great White Hope?

Working-class whites, as "a social category," fear a loss of definition and power, and that might be lead them to support Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, Gregory Rodriguez writes in the Los Angeles Times. This isn't white supremacy; "in fact it might be its opposite, an acknowledgment that white privilege has its limits," as non-college-educated whites feel their position slipping away.

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Still, Rodriguez doesn't think this makes it OK to vote for a candidate based on racial solidarity. "In our rapidly diversifying nation, where we are all becoming minorities," he writes, "the idea that any given group has an inalienable claim on a particular political seat, appointment or office based on demographics has officially outlived its usefulness." (Read more race stories.)