I'm not all that shocked by the alliance. Thanks to the writings of W.E.B. Dubois, I've come to understand that there is a class of people who will always consider themselves to be "white" first, and they believe that whatever benefits the white ruling class will be of benefit to them too, (it won't, but they refuse to see that.)

Such people have always been that way, willing to die to preserve whatever psychological wage they derived from associating their existence with the ruling class.