Perhaps whites were as appalled as I was when he bashed his white grandmother—you know, the one who helped raised him and later paid for his schooling, when his low-life black bigamist “father” left him.
I was steamed when the “Great Uniter” attempted to dump White Guilt on Reagan Dems for voting for Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. A common myth being promoted in political science classes is that Reagan won California and New York thru promoting fear of Blacks among White suburban women.