The phrase "white progressives" refers to white people who hold progressive or liberal beliefs, particularly on social issues such as racial equality and social justice. Full definition
Undoubtedly, there are white progressives who hate the IDC. (villagevoice.com)
Not only did he lose, but he ended up alienated from his base of white progressives, blacks and latinos and New Yorkers who reside in Brooklyn and Queens. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Or wasn't it actually, for white progressives and lefties at least, a dream that got be-blurred? (firstthings.com)