"You are deceived and blinded that you may not see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both."

- Tom Watson

Naturally, they are still using this tactic to great effect to this day. Racial animus is the wedge of power for our bettors. The introductory paragraph says it all.

"In his new history of anti-populism, Thomas Frank’s most stunning insight is this: In the 1890s, in the states of the Old Confederacy, the threat of “a political union” between poor black Republicans and poor white Populists so panicked the ruling post-Reconstruction Bourbon Democrats that their official, narcotizing lie of white solidarity was weaponized into the inhumanly degrading dogma of white supremacy."