Yes, that’s essentially what I mean by “shared interests”. In this case, the lack of white “solidarity” (in a political sense) is easily explained by the observation that whites’ political interests are not at all homogenous.
Of course, if policy is allowed to discriminate among races (and this is in fact the case) that might create homogenous interests where none existed before; however, my guess is that some minorities would still coalesce along race-based lines even if such policies weren’t a factor.
Yes, that’s essentially what I mean by “shared interests”.
I thought you meant something more like pre-existing conditions or contexts, for example, the shared interest of everyone who holds fixed debt in keeping inflation low or everyone who owns land on secure property rights.
What I thought was interesting and different about the black example was that this ‘shared interest’ could be forced on groups that previously shared no interests by a sufficiently powerful group which decides to treat the previously different groups as the same group—in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yes, that’s essentially what I mean by “shared interests”. In this case, the lack of white “solidarity” (in a political sense) is easily explained by the observation that whites’ political interests are not at all homogenous.
Of course, if policy is allowed to discriminate among races (and this is in fact the case) that might create homogenous interests where none existed before; however, my guess is that some minorities would still coalesce along race-based lines even if such policies weren’t a factor.
I thought you meant something more like pre-existing conditions or contexts, for example, the shared interest of everyone who holds fixed debt in keeping inflation low or everyone who owns land on secure property rights.
What I thought was interesting and different about the black example was that this ‘shared interest’ could be forced on groups that previously shared no interests by a sufficiently powerful group which decides to treat the previously different groups as the same group—in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.