1. In Chapter 2 of The Sum of Us, "Racism Drained the Pool,"author Heather McGhee makes all of the following pointsEXCEPT:

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The United States Supreme Court went along with the legalfiction that the Jackson, Mississippi city council had not actedwith racial animus when it closed the city's public swimming poolsrather than integrate them.

She asks an elderly white couple the former location of the OakPark public swimming pool in Montgomery Alabama.

Then New York State parks commissioner Robert Moses used thepower of state condemnation to destroy Black neighborhoods in orderto build freeways to take white New Yorkers in and out of the cityso they could comfortably commute to their white suburbanneighborhoods.

The closing of public swimming pools was both a literal and ametaphorical example of how a racist ideological structure led tothe shrinking of "public goods" accommodations that used to benefitlarge sectors of the public, including a majority of whites.

Ronald Reagan based his political strategy on "racialresentment," using coded "dog whistle" language to imply that lazyand undeserving people of color in ghettoes were going to get awaywith using public benefits provided by "big government."

1. In the article "The Past and Future of the Left in theDemocratic Party," authors Michael Brenes and Michael Koncewiczmake all of the following points EXCEPT:

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African American leader W.E.B. Du Bois abandoned the DemocraticParty after feeling betrayed by Woodrow Wilson's support for JimCrow legislation.

Democrats lost the senate seat in Texas in the 2018 electionbecause Beto O'Rourke did not appeal to a large enough base ofvoters of color and working class whites who might have respondedto a call for Medicare for All.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made a name for himself bydistancing his policies from the progressive wing of the DemocraticParty.

Democratic House member Abigail Spanberger blamed Democraticlosses in the 2020 House elections on progressive Democratssupposedly using the word "socialism" to describe their policyideas to help working people.

"AOC" or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled around the countrylistening to the concerns of regular working people.

1. In the interview with Bernie Sanders (‘Democracy Has Gotten aReprieve With Biden’s Victory. That’s All It Is’), the senatormakes all of the following points EXCEPT:

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The Republican Party has taken on some cult-like qualities,including widespread fear among its leadership to stand up forbasic principles of truth.

Hillary Clinton was chiefly responsible for the DemocraticParty's successes in the 2016 elections, despite her loss to DonaldTrump.

Donald Trump was dangerous as an authoritarian, but he was alsoundisciplined and mentally unstable. The next authoritarianpolitical figure who arises may not have these deficits.

Medicare for All, government sponsored health insurance, is verypopular according to Fox News polling data.

The central question in the 2020 presidential election waswhether the U.S. was going to be able to retain democracy.

1. In the article "The Past and Future of the Left in theDemocratic Party," authors Michael Brenes and Michael Koncewiczmake all of the following points EXCEPT:

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Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman to attempta serious run at the Democratic Party nomination for President.

Democrat Jesse Jackson made a plea to the leadership of theDemocratic Party not to abandon the most vulnerable constituents inthe Party's base.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, who went on to become a progressive U.S.president, won his seat to the United States Senate in the 1950s byappealing to working class whites, Blacks and Latinos in ruralTexas who needed federal aid to bring electricity to their remotefarming communities.

Democrats on the more conservative end of the Party are mistakenfor blaming election losses of "moderate" Democrats on the policygoals of progressives within the Party.

There is a long history of progressive activism within theDemocratic Party, some of which led to support for liberal policyideas and some of which led progressives within the party to fleefor more radical political opportunities.

1. In Chapter 2 of The Sum of Us, "Racism Drained the Pool,"author Heather McGhee makes all of the following pointsEXCEPT:

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It is difficult to find evidence of racism in the explicitstatements made by political conservatives both because they arenot aware of their own racialized biases but also because even whenpeople are aware of their biases they know that expressing suchsentiments is not socially acceptable.

The Republican Party has been able to gain more political powerby adopting policy positions that they have associated with race,even when their other policy positions are squarely in conflictwith the policy preferences of their white working class base.

The leadership of the Republican Party is out of step even withits own base, almost half of whom support taxing the rich to buildschools and roads.

She tells to story of a childhood visit to the public zoo in theNew Orleans Audubon Park with her mother

The United States is close to the bottom when it comes to percapita spending on public infrastructure, when compared with otheradvanced industrialized countries.