Posted on 11/09/2014 7:43:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Not long after the polls closed on Tuesday night, Georgia Congressman John Barrow earned his place in history when he lost his reelection campaign to Republican Rick Allen by almost 10 points—a peculiar place he undoubtedly didn’t want. Barrow, a five-term Democratic incumbent with a conservative voting record that earned him endorsements from both the National Rifle Association and the Chamber of Commerce, was the last white Democrat in Congress from the Deep South.
Much as this is a problem for white southern Democrats, it's a crisis for black ones. That’s because blacks in the South—who, notwithstanding the very compelling counter-example of Tim Scott, are almost invariably Democrats—have for decades relied on coalitions with white Democrats to increase their political power. Lacking white politicians with whom they can build coalitions, black politicians are increasingly rendered powerless. The situation for southern black Democrats has only grown more dire after Tuesday’s midterms. To truly grasp the severity of the crisis, it’s instructive to look not at Congress and Barrow, but at state legislatures and a Democratic state senator from Alabama named Roger Bedford.
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Typical white democrat spew.
Black people can’t do crap without the superior white elite democrats help.
Careful, NR, your racism is showing.
Bemoaning the loss of the white Democrat plantation overseers .....
Meanwhile in GOP controlled Michigan, the black unemployment rate has fallen faster than it has for anyone else.
The difference isn’t that the GOP has pandered to blacks but the fact that they have attracted business which tend to go to urban areas where blacks happen to live.
Yep that struck me too. How is it that black Democrats need white Democrats to accomplish things in the legislature? I didn’t follow any of that.
It might be interesting to discuss why it is that blacks vote over 90% Democrat in the first place. Is it because of President Johnson and the Voting Rights Act 0f 1965, and blacks feel they should be grateful that a Democrat president helped get that law passed, so they vote Democrat?
What has been said here, can apply to any group which gives 90% plus of their votes to the minority political party in their state.
This is true racism. I really don’t think the moron writing this piece knows what an insult his article is to black people.
This article says “Without your white democrat mastahs is the south, you folks are incapable of getting anywhere”.
That is pathetic.
Great statistic! Do you have some links?
Back in the slave owner days, the plantation owners kept their “darkies” well fed and gave them a roof over their head. As long as they were subserviant to the Mastah, they might get rewarded by being moved into service at the Main house.
This is what this article reminds me of.
Dems are worried that black folks are getting uppity and not appreciating the free food and roof. So...they need to get them back to being right.
God forbid that black people take advantage of the promise of good education and opportunity to stand on their own and make a good living for their families. Why, they can’t have that!
In this case, they wouldn’t need the democrat party.
Maybe the Southern “Blacks” should elect some non-socialist representatives?
I wonder how much of the black vote Tim Scott received in South Carolina on Tuesday.
Southern white democrat = candy man
If Abe Lincoln (a republican) freed the negro, you could say the democrat party put the African American on the welfare plantation.
What about women and children?
Everything I read of Mr. Douglass causes me to respect him.
I think his mind was similar in level to that of Winston Churchill.
Black racist voters vote Democratic. Not our problem to boost them and their party.
They made their bed and now they can lie down in it. The truth the Democratic Party is now a party of minorities.
Just in case the Democrats missed the big picture, its the demographics, stupid.
The other day on Twitter, Hillsdale college asked “What historical figure would you like to speak to”?
My answer was “I’d like to sit down with Frederick Douglass and a stack of modern newspapers”.
(Douglass spoke at Hillsdale college at least twice)
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