An Example of What’s Possible When American White Anxiety Doesn’t Exist

Isaac Newton Farris Jr
5 min readApr 8, 2024

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about the negative effects American White anxiety was having on American sentiment and American politics, for those whom I failed to convince that American White anxiety is an issue, maybe what occurred last Tuesday in deep red state Oklahoma will help you understand what’s possible when American White anxiety doesn’t exist.

There is a civil war going on within America’s Republican Party between traditional conservatives and Make America Great Again (MAGA) conservatives. Traditional conservative Republicans’ priority is minimizing government regulation on everything and everybody. MAGA Republicans’ priority is maximizing government regulation to promote their political, social, religious, and economic agenda, and to suppress and discriminate against everything they dislike or disagree with. Most have attributed the creation and growing strength of MAGA within the Republican Party to the changing racial demographics in America.

Changing racial demographics means American Whites are transitioning from being the majority population in America to being the largest minority population in America…

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Isaac Newton Farris Jr

Isaac Newton Farris Jr. is the nephew of Martin Luther King, Jr. and serves as Senior Fellow at the King Center.