The result of the stillbirth of the black revolution was the formation of a racist society in Tocquevillian America. America became a "Herrenvolk
democracy" -the term is that of the sociologist Pierre L. van den Berghe-
a regime that is "democratic for the master race but tyrannical for the subordinate groups."
-Racism and Democracy in Tocqueville's America by Harry W. Fritz
former Chair of the University of Montana History Department
The Social Science Journal Vol.13, No.3, October 1976 pg.67
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