Moreover, apartheid gave mixed-race citizens job preferences over blacks, footholds many fear losing to the 30-million-strong black majority.

She said she told students that Republican efforts to win over women and blacks had not been successful.

"It was another way of maintaining and asserting power over blacks."

Suddenly, Jews take precedence over blacks as lynching material.

Slavery meant that whites maintained their domination over blacks and so kept a rigidly structured inequality.

The rise of the New South involved the continued supremacy of whites over blacks, who had little or no political power.

Grady's conception of the New South was based on the social supremacy of whites over blacks.

Tensions have eased over the years between the area's two main ethnic groups, blacks and Hasidim.

Or win over blacks while telling them that all the problems of black America aren't white people's fault?

Clearly, however, an attempt had to be made to win over blacks.