The Battle of Loudoun County – The American Mind

Consequently, the current high-profile fight over critical race theory (CRT) in the county s public school system is the culmination of a decade or more of simmering tensions between the old Loudoun County and its newer, more invasive counterpart. The old Loudoun, made up of predominantly white, traditionally Republican-voting small business owners and defense contractors, is the locus of the resistance to centering the racialist ideology in their children s curricula. The ascendant new Loudoun County generally supports entrenched interests behind the  equity initiatives that provoked the controversy: powerful teacher s union bosses, woke school board representatives, legacy social justice groups like the NAACP, and so on. What began with a series of explosive parent-teacher confrontations between the old Loudoun and the new Loudoun has given rise to one of the most prolonged and bitter battles over CRT to date. 

via americanmind.org