They will claim that it isn't racism.  The funny thing is that for about the first year of Obama's Presidency, I believed them when they said it was due to policy differences.  I started noticing a trend of statements by the so called thought leaders of the right sounding more and more like people who are trying to explain that they can't be racist because they have 1 black friend or co-worker.  As time went on, it became more and more apparent that the problem wasn't policy as it was race for many on the right.