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Really?
More significant an indication than calling Mexican's rapists, systematically refusing tenancy to black people and proposing a ban on Muslim's entering the country?
I agree with you on the primary point though. Tarring all Trump supporters as racists just because some of them were is a poor and ultimately self-damaging argument, same as it was with Brexit supporters. People had their own personal reasons for voting this way and in many cases the associated racism was simply not enough to tip the scales the other way.
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Can you provide the quotes re the Mexicans/rapists? I think this is covered in the article I linked to, when he said something like 'some of the unauthorized migrants coming from Mexico were rapists and hardened criminals' - statistically, I'm sure they were. This kind of provocative populist rhetoric is obviously dangerous and unhelpful in the extreme, but to extrapolate from that that he is clearly a racist is the point I think we need to be careful about.
Anyway, as I said, clearly he's awful, and he's probably a racist, but anyone who wants to effectively oppose these populist-right movements and campaigns (and I do!) needs to be careful they do it on the best possible terms rather than hurling accusations of racism not based in supportable reality.
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I'd say the appointment of Bannon is potentially the most significant indication he may be a racist. But the point remains that people have been screaming RACIST at him throughout the entire campaign which overlooks his more overt failings/incompetencies and potentially weakens the power of condemnation for if/when an actual open racist does get close to power...