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How the Democrats lost the white working class (Appalachia)
The Washington Examiner ^ | 11/13/16 | SALENA ZITO

Posted on 11/16/2016 6:35:40 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911

On Thursday morning the "Today" show had a segment with a psycologist who was there to guide parents on how to explain Hillary Clinton's loss to their children.

"Well that is interesting, they sure didn't have a child psycologist on to explain to my children the loss of Mitt Romney, or John McCain. You just simply did not have that," said a suburban mother sitting in the waiting room of a doctor's office with the morning show streaming on the television.

The young mother, an IT professional who lives in Pittsburgh, the "Paris of Appalachia," said she was stunned once again how the media still don't get people outside of the big cities.

"Two days later and they still don't get it," said Brad Todd, a Washington based Republican consultant who also caught the show.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; appalachia; democrats; deplorables; pa2016; redstates; rural; truth; white; workingclass; zito
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I am not of Appalachia but am Scot-Irish descent and know that we are hard working, America loving and will not sit by and watch this country go down the drain. The Democrats have forsaken us for the most extreme positions, tacit support for the war on police, give aways of every stripe, bowing to foreign leaders, ignoring black racism at ever turn, condescending at every chance. So working, white American men and women struck back and now the Democrat party is where it was at the end of the Civil War. Nothing. And there it will stay until it becomes more mainstream and rediscovers American values and love.
1 posted on 11/16/2016 6:35:40 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Uncle Sam 911

oh those “deplorable” rednecks, daring not to vote for the resentments of the south.


2 posted on 11/16/2016 6:38:30 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Everybody was so worried about Trumps brown and black numbers, they forgot to notice Hillary’s white numbers. And the whites are still the majority.


3 posted on 11/16/2016 6:38:30 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

oh those “deplorable” rednecks,


Hey, that’s RACIS!

They are “necks of color”.


4 posted on 11/16/2016 6:39:04 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Well, the first step was when Hillary threatened to put the coal mines out of business and to leave all those hard working miners unemployed. And no Democrat, or MSM, uttered a word. (except maybe Manchin and Webb)


5 posted on 11/16/2016 6:39:33 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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6 posted on 11/16/2016 6:43:17 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Try not taking a dump on them for years and years; both their way to make a living and their values.


7 posted on 11/16/2016 6:43:47 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Uncle Sam 911

My old man was raised in Appalachia in southwestern New York just over the PA border and I spent many summers as a kid up there staying with my grandmother. The old man always used to say that the people up there will work harder than anyone else in the world and someday people would figure it out and build a real powerhouse of an industry in Appalachia. I’m still waiting, and they’re still suffering the malaise of 25 years of relentless government actions to drive what industry they have into the grave. I hope President Elect Trump is able to light the fuse that makes my pop’s prophecy come true.


8 posted on 11/16/2016 6:44:34 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

The white working class is both too deplorable and too ignorant for the liberal elite to care what they think. They are supposed to do what they are told. Or else.


9 posted on 11/16/2016 6:44:59 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Uncle Sam 911
The same area that Obama (2008) was speaking about in his 'bitter clingers' comments. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

The Democrats did not lose these voters, they insulted, demeaned and threw them into the garbage can. To lose implies inattention, they actively rejected them, their jobs and their society!

10 posted on 11/16/2016 6:45:10 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

It’s pretty straight forward, I think. She talked about putting people out of work, putting entire industries out of business and raising taxes across the board. Not exactly a message that the working class (of any ethnicity) likes to hear.


11 posted on 11/16/2016 6:46:21 AM PST by LIConFem ( III)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Harry Truman once said that you could not get rich in politics unless you were a crook. The Clintons have amassed over $250 million during their years in politics without producing any goods or services.

Corrupt Hillary is a lying sick old crook, who accepts bribes and betrays our country. Everything she says and does, or causes to be said or done, must be viewed with the utmost suspicion. Her promises are worthless, unless they enrich her in some way.

Her husband is a rapist and a pedophile whom she has actively enabled.

THAT is why she lost the election.


12 posted on 11/16/2016 6:46:44 AM PST by LOC1 (We HAVE a new President.)
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I’ve read some stories that came out of there, and while financially poor, they are clever, and have traditional stories of riddles.

I wonder how well they would do as “hi tech red necks” i.e. a second India in the IT business?

“Hillbilly Computers here! How can we help yore problum?”


13 posted on 11/16/2016 6:49:04 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. Douglas

Appalachians are not rednecks.

We’re hillbillies.


14 posted on 11/16/2016 6:49:43 AM PST by Salamander (Joan Crawford Has Risen From The Grave...)
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To: LIConFem

It sounds demonic... and those hillbillies know about things spiritual. They’d peg her as a wicked witch right off.


15 posted on 11/16/2016 6:49:55 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Salamander

you’re both, though you hate to admit it


16 posted on 11/16/2016 6:51:04 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: LOC1

Purportedly paid for their yack. But it was said to be influential yack.


17 posted on 11/16/2016 6:52:38 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. Douglas

And the whites are still the majority.

Typical Whites its just not fair!!!!

UGH

How will they explain it to their children?

Compulsive lying is wrong and always fails.


18 posted on 11/16/2016 6:52:49 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Salamander

We’re hillbillies.


Billies of hill.


19 posted on 11/16/2016 6:52:53 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

[a psycologist who was there to guide parents on how to explain Hillary Clinton’s loss to their children.]

How many children give a hoot about who won the election? They are reacting to the hysteria of troubled parents driven to the edge by their liberal ideology.


20 posted on 11/16/2016 6:54:09 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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