particular. i mean, that is the definition of a dog whistle. and i actually sort of think that democrats that when you have the combination of a stagnating economy, when you have this whole new group of people who are for the first time really getting access to mainstream american white when you have a political party trying to accommodate them, the people of the party used to ak get, white ethnics, works class white, who are the main recipients of programs in 1940s and 50s, they ll react against it. i don t think there was any way to prevent that reaction. but republicans didn t necessarily have to capitalize on the racial aspects of that, and that s what s troubling about the entire period of american history. that the use of racial politics by politicians like reagan wasn t necessary. it didn t have to happen. and by indulging it, relying on it, exploiting, it reagan created real divisions that still exist. i was going to say, he didn t