Meanwhile, the overall long-term prospects for American liberalism are actually bright, if only because the demographic shift is a reality that can’t be blinked away. White supremacy is another Lost Cause. As America becomes increasingly multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural, and as it becomes impossible for any single ethnoreligious group to dominate American politics and society, the appeal of liberalism as the only means of holding such a society together should grow. Many white people may not change their attitudes toward other racial and ethnic groups—after all, they haven’t changed
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