Number 1: From the very beginning, the dog whistle target has been “urban” areas with large populations of people of color. Kit Bond railed against electoral corruption in St. Louis. ACVR identified a rogue’s gallery of cities where millions of black Americans lived, including some where they were the majority population. Representative Burmeister singled out blacks in Augusta who were supposedly willing to sell their votes. Psychologically, the word association of “crime,” “urban,” and “African Americans” made the connection of “stealing” an election via fraud cognitively palpable to the
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