Letters to the Editor
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Whipping up racial animosity for fun and profit
I have seen Joan Walsh on tv, and I don't think that she is actually backing the proposal that she is publishing. The real reason for this story is to sell advertising impressions to Sony, and classmates.com, and the movie The Kingdom. Every time she puts up and incredibly inflamatory article like this, you all post hundreds of responses, and load up thousands (millions?) of pageviews that are sold to salon.com's advertisers. Just another evil corporation dividing the american electorate for profit.
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Wow.
People who think that the illustrative photograph depicts a genuine NASCAR-loving badass have me confused. At first glance, I thought, honest-to-God, that the photo was of one of the Village People.
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Stop sterotyping
Many of Bill Clinton's vote came from pro-choice women, both Democrat and Republican. Not sure you can say white union voters black votrs, hispanic voters, women voters are going to vote in one massive block. If polticians and the voters would justt quit listening to these pollster and advisors we would all be better off. Right now I'm not sure anyone both Democrat or Repulbican are sure how they are going to vote. I have been talking to many of my friends and they are all over the map and inconsistent with who I thought they would be supporting. I know many peole on the fence between either Hillary & Obmama, Hillary and Edwards, or Edwards and Obama. One couple who are friends and I consider both the husband and wife to be traditionalist when it come to female/male roles are voitng for Hillary. I assume they would vote for Edwards. They are going to vote for Hillary because they think she is intelligent, but also they will get Bill too, which I consider sexist. They won't vote for Obama becasue they consider him"not experienced" which I think this is an excuse for not voting for him because he is Black. Many assume Blacks are just natually going to vote for Obama, yet many blacks I know are split between Hillary, Edwards and Obama, some are on the fence. Many of my friends assumed I would vote for Hillary because I am a feminist. Yet I am voting for Obama. My moderate republican friends are have no one to vote for. It is still up for grabs.
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err
"Up until 1964, the South had only one political party, the Democrats. Out of hatred for Lincoln's Republicans and what they had done to the Confederacy, the GOP was almost entirely irrelevant in the region. That all changed when Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. All of those loyal Democrats -- including Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and even Ronald Reagan -- shifted allegiances to the GOP. The last vestiges of the traditional southern Democrats, George Wallace voters, came over to the GOP a few years later."
It´s not so easy. Jimmy Carter won almost entirely due to the South, and until some years ago most of the senators and governors in the region were democrats(Some states are facing it first republican governor since Reconstruction now). Arkansas is becoming a solid blue state.
And James Eastland, a notorious racist senator, would keep his democratic affiliation long after the CRA. And most Dixiecrats were more than mere segregationists. Most people forgets that the South was the only region that didn´t fell to Catholic bigotry in 1928 with Al Smith.
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Okay, I want to hear everybody this time. "Kumbaya, kumbaya . . ."
When a politician is elected, he represents EVERYONE, even the people who didn't vote for him. How does a leader expect to get general public support when that leader systematically cuts entire populations out of the election message? -- mchebert
While an elected official represents everyone, his or her leadership needn't (god forbid!) reflect everyone's views. I do not want the overwhelmingly self-centered, unsophisticated, and xenophobic "world" view so common of people in the South and rural Midwest and West represented to the smallest degree in our nation's policies.
BTW, what's an "election message"?
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Oh well
So much for liberals being all-inclusive and being colorblind.
Guess the "white boys" will just have to go to the conservative side or just sit everything out.
This is just a sad state of affairs...but unfortuantely, this person IS telling it exactly how most (NOT all) liberals see it - that "white boys" need to stay out of politics because they are all just prejudice and so can't do things the "right" way.
Guess this just shows where white males fit into the grand scheme of the Democratic party.
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And also ...
I do not want the overwhelmingly self-centered, unsophisticated, and xenophobic "world" view so common of people in the South and rural Midwest and West represented to the smallest degree in our nation's policies.
And I'm sure they say the same thing about toffee-nosed, elitist, condescending, and detached-from-reality views of the so-called Bi-Coastal nitwits.
Thank God for the electoral college.
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Democrats should be happy...
It took them a while, but it looks like they are getting it there. Let's face it, white males do not fit the image of diversity that the Liberals adhere to. We've become the scapegoat for all that's wrong with the country, so it's time to get rid of us... Unless we are a College Professor, Elite wealthy, or a politician - then we can stay.
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Understanding bubba
The fact that most southern white males still like and support Bush is an indication that the problem isn't with liberal snobbism(not that it doesn't exist) but with white southern males. When tens of millions of people vote on a regular basis against their own interest and are extremely easy to be manipulated by charlatans like Bush, it's hard to blame the Democrats for reaching the conclusion, assuming that they have, that it would be a waste of resources and time to chase that group. For example, the majority of that group still believes that Saddam was the mastermind of 9/11, the only group where a majority still believes that nonsense. Why would the Democrats try to appeal to those morons, when this groups insists on staying so stupid and ignorant?
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Thanks
Thanks for reminding me of why I should avoid the Democrats. There is certainly nothing there for a poor white boy.