John Fredrick Parker
Donor
There was no real white backlash against the civil rights movement. Not in the way you are meaning. There is a huge thing against affirmative action which is reverse racism.
Now if you based it on financial resources instead of racial ones people would have quite a few less issues with it.
But affirmative actions is racist against all sorts of people
This doesn't sit well with me -- I suppose to start, AIUI "affirmative action" (as the controversy is understood today) didn't really become a national issue until the late 1970's, with cases like Regents, when the rise in incarceration was already underway. Moreover, the most controversial civil rights issue of the early 70's, when the trend did begin, was busing -- and FWIG neither the proponents nor the opponents were making little or no connection of those programs as affirmative action, or "reverse racism", or anything of the kind...