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Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform

The story, of course, does not have a happy ending. Democrats took a page out of their opponents’ playbook by adopting horizontal organizing strategies. The role that black voters played in the Democratic defeat allowed Democratic organizers to construct narratives raising the specter of “Negro Domination” (p. 119). And for the first time, Democratic leaders began to appeal not only to white identity, but also to white interests. That is, they began to promote specific policies that would benefit white people as a group at the expense of the state’s black population. They succeeded. Making Race, Making Power is an important book. It is also a very short book. Adding a similar analysis of the road to disfranchisement in another southern state could have had a nice payoff. As Redding acknowledges, the state of North Carolina was exceptional in several respects. Nevertheless, the case study of North Carolina politics is intriguing and the implications of Redding’s theoretical argument extend far beyond questions related to disfranchisement and North Carolina politics.