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That attack-dog author Ann Coulter is not too bright 鈥� and that she is perfectly happy to slime any and all people she doesn鈥檛 like 鈥� is well known.

What鈥檚 not such common knowledge is that she is a racist.

Of course, there were early hints. The starkest came in 2009, when her latest rabid tome, Guilty: Liberal 鈥淰ictims鈥� and Their Assault on America, made an extended defense of a group called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). The CCC, Coulter opined, was merely 鈥渁 conservative group鈥� that was being attacked by The New York Times and others because it included 鈥渕embers who had belonged to a segregationist group thirty years earlier.鈥� She asserted that there was 鈥渘o evidence鈥� on the CCC鈥檚 website of any support for segregation or the like.

Well, Coulter apparently never read the page, which says that the group opposes all 鈥渆ffort to mix the races of mankind.鈥� The CCC has written that black people are 鈥渁 retrograde species of humanity,鈥� and that non-white immigration is turning the U.S. population into a 鈥渟limy brown mass of glop.鈥� It has lambasted black people as 鈥済enetically inferior,鈥� complained about 鈥淛ewish power brokers,鈥� called gay people 鈥減erverted sodomites,鈥� and named the late Lester Maddox, the baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former Georgia governor 鈥淧atriot of the Century.鈥� All of this was well known at the time to pundits, politicians and the media.

But let鈥檚 give Ann a break. Maybe she really did think the CCC was merely about 鈥渁 strong national defense, the right to keep and bear arms, the traditional family, and an 鈥楢merica First鈥� trade policy,鈥� as she wrote then. Whatever.

Now comes the 2012 version of Ann Coulter, older but clearly not wiser. See, she鈥檚 been thinking about race, and her new book on the topic, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama, is out this Oct. 3. And yesterday, she blogged about some of those deep thoughts on race for the first time:

• The 2000 loss of a white majority in California 鈥� something the Census Bureau says will happen nationwide by 2050 鈥� 鈥渉as already destroyed鈥� the state.
• Now the entire United States 鈥渋s on its way to becoming a Third World, one-party state.鈥� This change will do 鈥渋ncalculable damage to the nation and to individual citizens.鈥�
• The 1965 Immigration Act, which ended a racist system of national quotas, was 鈥渆xpressly designed鈥� by 鈥渓iberal demagogues鈥� to 鈥渕ake [America] more like Nigeria.鈥�
• 鈥淓ighty-five percent of immigrants now come from 鈥榙eveloping countries.鈥� (How are they ever going to develop if their people are all on the dole over here?)鈥�
• No one is 鈥渁llowed to say, 鈥榃e like the ethnic mix as it is.鈥欌��

Coulter goes into some of her well-known name-calling 鈥� California Gov. Jerry Brown is a 鈥済eriatric leftist鈥� and that state鈥檚 junior senator Barbara Boxer is an 鈥渙ld prune鈥� 鈥斅燽ut her main thrust, and apparently her main current interest, is race.

We can鈥檛 wait to see her further thoughts in October. We fully expect that she鈥檚 thought just as deeply about race as she has about the CCC 鈥� which is to say, practically not at all.