Counted out: Trump's desperate fight to stop the minority vote

Gary Younge: Republicans applied old school racism to new demographics, and lost. "It is important to remember that the US was a slave state for more than 200 years – and an apartheid state, after the abolition of slavery, for another century. Throughout that time, in certain parts of the country, all Black votes were, by definition, illegal, and conservatives worked hard to keep it that way. It has only been a nonracial democracy for 55 years. And that short reign now hangs in the balance." The author and sociology professor reflects for the Guardian.