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white backlash

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Noun1.white backlash - backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances
backlash - an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"


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Still other scholars see it as an extension of white backlash against liberalism and the Civil Rights movement.
Even Democratic president Bill Clinton largely governed in concession to white backlash during his two terms.
Since the closing weeks of the campaign, we've seen a real and significant, white backlash break out and I think it's getting worse," Potok told AFP.
 
 
 
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