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KOHLER: “Not only have white women, and majorities of white women voted Republican for the better part of 70 years, white women have taken an active role in the maintenance of white supremacy. And that has not changed over the course of generations, and so we still see those legacies today. Whether it’s Amy Cooper, or the Permit Patties or white women that have weaponized their identities against especially black men who threaten their privilege. These are long-standing, entrenched patterns. Now, the one point that Rachel just mentioned that I do think is worthwhile paying attention to, and that I do think sort of this exit poll data obscures, is that I think one incorrect takeaway from this election is that, therefore, we just wash our hands and say, okay, we’re no longer speaking to white women. They’re going to do what they’re going to do politically, their interests are their interests and there's no point. And actually, I think that’s where kind of delving into the subgroups of white women and particularly looking at those white college-educated women who did appear to swing this election where there has been real infrastructure built post-2016 that is doing real organizing in communities, that's not just swooping in with some ads in the weeks before the election, but that is really using white women’s networks in those communities to organize. That does appear to make a difference.”