Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science at the University of California at Irvine and the author of “Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era,” says that historically racists have always claimed not to be racist, even the likes of George Wallace — and the public during the Jim Crow era.

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