@f884fa2b I am not sure if it was so much "dominance" as blissfully unaware.  Being an "Nth Generation" European in the US from 1950 to 1990 (say) was an era where you just didn't have to think of anybody else.  "Safely" moved out to the suburbs where you never had to encounter Black people or recent immigrants of any kind.  Everyone mowed their lawns, painted their house white and everyone was the same.

Now they have to consider other actual people and they hate that. 

 @7b555b2a But doesn't dominance often go with being blissfully unaware, as one takes one's cultural hegemony for granted as "natural" or even divinely ordained? 

 @f884fa2b Yes, I would agree with that.  I guess what I was saying was that from 1950-1970 suburban white folk (who which my family was firmly in that camp) could see themselves not as "dominant" but rather "just normal."  We didn't need to defend our position, we could see ourselves as "nice people."

Of Southerners at the same time had their dominance challenged and fought back -- as we are seeing today. 

 @7b555b2a Yes, that's my point — and I grew up in a white suburb, too, so I share that perspective.