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Before Trump took office, a CDC website listed structural racism and implicit bias among the many factors to blame for such disparities, echoing findings long cited by health researchers and advocates.

Health researchers have faulted numerous factors for that disparity, including inequities in healthcare, chronic conditions and structural racism.

"We need to do much more than provide these individuals a follow-up prenatal visit; our actions have to be timely and address root causes and fragmentation in the system to impact the layers of structural racism that we already know contribute to maternal morbidity."

But this year’s results suggest that if there is a single deal-breaker for Democrats in the current environment, it isn’t having “elite” characteristics or having used phrases like structural racism or white supremacy in the past.

The George Floyd protests put police reform on the agenda and served as a wake-up call about the raw, contemporary dangers of structural racism, but except for its transformation into a scary right-wing bedtime story about looters and out-of-control cities, it seems to have sunk back below the surface, leaving only a few cultural ripples behind.