Describes the historical and demographic origins of the new majority in America, consisting of progressive people of color combined with progressive whites, who now stand to create social policy shifts and finally overcome a divisive racial barrier.

America's racial fault lines run uninterrupted from the days of slavery, those of lynchings, separate water fountains, and the contemporary Jim Crow of voter suppression, gerrymandered voting districts, and the attempt to nullify the presidency of the U.S.'s first black chief executive. In this book Cornell Belcher presents new research that illuminated just how deep and jagged these racial fault lines continue to be. Cornell has surveyed battleground...