Neo-racist

Ideologically, the Nixon administration was neo-racist insofar as it manipulated negative symbols associated with white perceptions of blacks.

They contend that the latter's opening up of the category of Settler to include all non-Indigenous peoples has arisen alongside, and is thus tainted by association with, neo-racist and neoliberal ideologies of the 1980s that rely for their force on the assumption of 'incommensurable "differences" between "cultures" imagined as separate and distince' (p. 122).

Therefore, the neo-racist argument targets not only immigrants but also their descendants for the threat they pose to national identity.

Neo-racists have been documented to engage xenophobic responses and attempts at closure. At the national level, they often demand an end to immigration.

The Republicans lost three Senate seats, and sixteen seats in the House, including such familiar figures as North Carolina's Jesse Helms, voted out when just enough white working-class voters turned to the populist message of State Insurance Commissioner John Ingram, who attacked Helms not as a neo-racist or an extremist, but as "the hand-picked tool of the fat cats and special interests."

That Weber's sociology should be so clearly indebted to narrowly defined and historically contingent cultural and political values underlying his notion of national identity has been alternatively seen as a reason for either discarding Weber as a classic (Abraham 1991) or re-reading him as a neo-racist (Zimmerman 2006).