Why Racists Run: Explaining Electoral Candidacy Within the US White Nationalist Movement from Reconstruction to Present Day

• In Event: Race, Candidates, and Counterstereotypic Politics

Brief Overview

This paper examines why racist far-right actors run for office, analyzing the U.S. white nationalist movement over 150 years. It finds that electoral strategies often coexisted with violence and were driven by efforts to mainstream the movement.

Author

• Shea Minter, Georgetown University