Posted on 11/06/2014 4:28:00 AM PST by 11th_VA
At the root of the Democratic problem is the party’s lack of appeal among white voters, or – some Democrats might argue – the ease with which Republicans can take advantage of Georgia’s racially polarized politics.
...The answer, under those calculations, is that Democrats won approximately 23 percent of the white vote on Tuesday night. Which is about what Roy Barnes did in 2010. Nunn and Carter needed 30 percent of the white vote to be viable.
For a party whose viability is based on a biracial coalition, that’s a serious chasm — not just for 2016, but 2018 as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blog.ajc.com ...
Aw, come on, I was born in ‘44 and I used to look at guys like you and try to imagine what it felt like to be so rich!
White privilege meant I had the privilege of picking white cotton. I had a black mule though, that was my present for my twelfth birthday. Always wanted a white horse but all I got was a black mule.
This reads like Cynthia Tucker wrote it.
White Privilege; As a child in 1950, living as if it was 1880. The only privilege was having a smaller hole in the outhouse.
White privilege; Whites, Indians and blacks working in a hot Oklahoma steel fabrication shop that hired all races. Those that wanted to work did, those that didn’t soon quit.
I’m still looking for my white privilege.
Why would any self respecting white person vote for a party that hates them? Maybe a self destruct complex?
You live by racial polarization, you die by racial polarization.
Ferguson was the last straw for a lot of white voters.
Absolutely.
Only if you are a rabid pro-abortion, same-sex marriage, tax-loving, food stamp recipient.
Left wing Hollywood Democrats paint white males as buffoons, idiots, racists, rednecks. Then they expect us to vote like they do. Talk about idiots and buffoons.
Some are still idiots and buffoons enough to vote for the dims. The percentage is much smaller though, I don’t see all those white dudes running around talking about how “cool” it is to support Obama any more. Guess they figured out it is not “cool” to be an idiot and vote for your own beheading.
Democrats of old bought their slaves with their own money.
Present day Democrats buy their slaves with taxpayer money.
Ouch!! That’s gonna to leave a mark.
They’re the racist party and they despise white men.
Why would any white man vote for people whose doesn’t want their vote.
The late unlamented Mark Udall here in Colorado acted like I didn’t exist. He got tossed out on his keisters.
The Democrats’ white man problem as it turns out, is far from being an exclusively Southern one.
I believe in human dignity and equality under the law.
Those are exactly the very ideals the Democratic Party tramples underfoot. All the time.
White men aren’t rednecks.
I live in Colorado and its far away from being a conservative Southern state as you can get.
Guess what demographic Udall ignored in his failed re-election bid? Hint: it was men of his own skin color.
That game stops working when the two groups ever hear each other. And that's what happened. Dems were caught. Blacks were told it's all about race - and the whites told if they think about 'race' , they're racist. Dems got caught in lies - by everyone... blacks, whites, Latinos...
It'll never go back to the way it was - the race card is finished. If dems play the race card in the future it'll be automatically played on all sides at the same time. And there's a lot more whites than blacks...
I think the big open eyes came from those guys that put out the YouTube vids.
Basically, “we’re not better off, in fact things are worse, and who’s running the show? Not YT, not republicans - black democrats are running the show and things are not going well.”
And it’s not the ethnicity of the democrats running the show that makes things bad for everyone - it’s the ideology combined with a _culture_ of grievance and victimhood that causes the perpetual misery.
'White Privilege' is a racist term meant to oppress the white man.
Yep, carving out special rights for special groups is their means of acquiring political power. That is the antithesis of equality under the law, and human dignity is the first casualty in the scramble for governmental “pull” amongst the disparate groups.
Those that voted that way in 2008 got ripped off, and they know it.
Voting for and electing Obama was supposed to assuage their white guilt and let those perpetuating race rage know that YT meant them no harm.
Instead, they got 10 times the race rage in covering for the blatant socialist advancement.
True but the other states are quickly catching up. Why do you think Odinga and pals are quick to send the newly transported illegals far and wide to the 50 states.
Take a drive some day, through your small towns in your state. Look, really look at who is there. Go into the grocery stores and look how many brands of, say, tortillas and authentic mexican cheeses you will see.
Trust me, it's mind boggling. I went to a small country store in very rural NC one day to get a pecan pie they were famous for. It's about 90 minutes outside of Raleigh. Good ol' boy territory. Or so you'd think.
I was the only whitey in there speaking English. They had every authentic Mexican food known to man. I don't mean Old El Paso! And that was five years ago. The population has probably tripled since then.
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