Racism and the modern republican party

The mainstream media and quite a few liberal bloggers continue to make excuses for the obvious racism of the republican party and this reticence needs to be called out.  Much as the democratic party of the late 19th through the mid 20th century was the home to a large contingent of racists, the republicans from the 1970s and forward have become the preferred refuge of racists seeking political power.  Membership in the KKK or the Aryan Brotherhood will not help you gain a national following, but it will make you a punching bag for those who are less extreme, but more dangerous to the body politic.  While the overt racism of dixiecrats largely excused the politics of South Boston and other democratic enclaves in the north, the modern republican party does not differentiate southern racists from their northern cousins.  Support for Trump and his followers may have been less in Pennsylvania than in Alabama, but it was sufficient to elect him.  the hunt for the semi-mythical white voter who backed Obama, but voted for Trump because of his economic message is a fool's errand.  The GOP successfully painted Obama and Hillary as out of touch elitists and Trump as the people's herald in one of the most blatantly racist and misogynistic campaigns of all time.  White resentment won the election, pure and simple.  Never underestimate the darker side of human nature.