1.   Does it matter, according to some historians, that Richard Nixon expanded affirmative action not to help minorities but to stir white resentment and a backlash?

2.   He gambled that he could build a new Republican party from scratch in his Democratic state based primarily on white resentment of federally enforced racial integration.

3.   These days, however, white resentment of these schemes is boiling over, and blacks are drawn to the separatism of Louis Farrakhan.

4.   BNP candidates have played on white resentment against minorities, saying South Asians received a disproportionate share of public resources and attacked whites who came into their neighborhoods.

5.   White resentment over the idea of honoring a black man also lingered.