Place not Race

"The flaws in this approach are obvious: (1) race-based policies are almost always unconstitutional—the government can't set out to help one group or hurt another based on their race, sex, religion, or national origin; and (2) race-based policies are disastrous politically driving wedges between different groups of working-class people that inhibit majority action on important economic changes and fuel backlash politics that leave everyone worse off."

John Halpin at The Liberal Patriot argues that "[i]f we want to move forward as one nation, we need a common program and politics that brings people together around ideas to help less fortunate Americans in all places, rather than a race-based one that drives working people apart while producing limited success and inviting constant legal challenge."

And Ruy Teixeira says that "[a]t the very moment when neoliberalism has been comprehensively discredited, the left has become more and more associated with unpopular sociocultural issues and less and less with solving the problems of working class people."