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a reaction by white voters against civil rights advances. The term was coined in November 2016 by CNN commentator Van Jones.
The election of the racist candidate was a whitelash against Blacks and Hispanics.
Dramatic racial progress in America is inevitably followed by a white backlash, or "whitelash."