Reagan’s managers were targeting voters who felt victimized by government actions that cost them the privileges their whiteness once afforded them. In Cicero, they clamored six abreast in line waiting for the FBI to complete its bomb check to enter the Morton Community College gym to celebrate what city fathers had officially declared “Ronald Reagan Day.” Inside, they chanted, “Reagan’s right! Reagan’s right!” in eager anticipation. They cheered lustily when Reagan described Jimmy Carter’s new Department of Education as a plot to replace neighborhood schools with a system
