Re GOP strategy: Racism isn't a good fit. But Resentment is (and it sure fits with the party of whiners).

Fits with the stripe of Red voters in 2008 from east Texas to West Virginia, where there are lots of poor whites resenting their traditional inferiors getting ahead.

Fits with all of the anti-gun-control sentiment that the GOP exploits.

Fits with the appeal to the self-made millioniare types. People will work much harder to avoid losing a million than they will to make a million in the first place (see Psych 101). To rally them to the GOP flag, call taxes "confiscation."