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To attract members and adherents, contemporary racist organizations construct interpretive frames that address a wide variety of social issues and problems. We draw on Simmel's insights on the social position of “the stranger,” arguing that racist framing should have greater resonance in communities with a large non-White population that is not fully integrated into the community. We examine county-level variation in the presence or absence of an active racist group in 2001. Results show that the combination of a large non-White population and White isolation from non-Whites provides a favorable context for racist activism.
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McVeigh, R., Sikkink, D. Organized Racism and the Stranger. Sociol Forum 20, 497–522 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11206-005-9056-1
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