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White Flight From Southern Democrats Doomed Mary Landrieu
National Journal ^ | 12/07/2014 | SCOTT BLAND

Posted on 12/07/2014 11:01:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Democrats have been worried about the African-American vote in Louisiana for months. But what really doomed Sen. Mary Landrieu's reelection bid was the near-monolithic white vote against her.

Landrieu's loss Saturday to Republican Sen.-elect Bill Cassidy followed a November all-party primary in which the incumbent got a lower share of the white vote (18 percent) than all other Democratic Senate candidates in the country but one, according to exit polling. There was no exit poll Saturday night due to a lack of media interest in the runoff, perhaps because even Landrieu's campaign acknowledged that she would need at least 30 percent support from white voters to win another term, a huge jump from her baseline in November.

That's about what Landrieu received when she won her final Senate term in 2008, and her drop-off since then highlights how the white voters who used to be the Democratic Party's Southern foundation have left—and how the party has collapsed without them.

"She came home to a sea of change since she last ran," said Bernie Pinsonat, a pollster in the state. "We don't have any Democratic statewide officials, after her, left. The Legislature is now dominated by Republicans; you don't even need a Democrat to pass a bill. Next year there will be maybe 10, or maybe eight or seven white Democrats left in the entire Capitol building. There's been a mass exodus and not something that had gone unnoticed. I don't know why she ran for reelection."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 2014midterms; billcassidy; blackvote; la2014; louisiana; marylandrieu; robmaness; whiteflight
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To: SeekAndFind

I think the failed leadership of Obama and the unrelenting insults against whites who don’t agree with the Fabian/Democrat Socialist agenda are what has killed the Democrat Party. Now, only white snobs, pro-statism, big government loons, pony-tailed professors, poverty stricken underclass blacks, and Democrats on-the-make still believe in the Obama led Democrats.


41 posted on 12/07/2014 12:33:59 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: goldstategop
They’re literally a minority party. The white stool in the rainbow coalition has literally dropped off.

Not so fast, bud. This is only true in the South.

In the North, there are plenty of states with 85%-90% of White populations, which are comfortably and deeply Democratic - Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, etc.

42 posted on 12/07/2014 12:59:19 PM PST by nwrep
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> White Flight From Southern Democrats Doomed Mary Landrieu

That’s odd — I’ve never, ever seen a headline from the Partisan Media Shills like this:

> Monolithic Black Vote for Democrat Doomed Republican

It’s almost as if the racism inherent in that persistent rubber-stamping doesn’t fit their narrative.


43 posted on 12/07/2014 1:01:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SeekAndFind

I enjoy watching the democrats wallow in the mud with king obama. He is total fail with anyone he gets near.

Idiot Fascists!


44 posted on 12/07/2014 1:09:56 PM PST by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: nwrep

That is true. I have to go to R.I. sometimes and the place is very depressing.

I don’t understand them at all. I think they are very ignorant of the rest of America.


45 posted on 12/07/2014 1:14:42 PM PST by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: goldstategop

The Republican nominee for President needs to endlessly talk about how the Dem’s gave 5 million, (not counting the chain immigration that WILL happen) illegals the jobs that should go to black citizens. Peel them off....some of them are waking up.


46 posted on 12/07/2014 1:17:03 PM PST by sandboxshooter (Iraq, Afghanistan, War)
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To: billhilly

“I don’t want to demean black Americans, and there are many, who live the American lifestyle and enjoy it’s rewards.”

True, but their percentage of the whole is very small. There are too few Sheriff Clarke’s and too many Michael Brown’s. As long as we allow “phony racism” to drive “public assistance,” the numbers won’t move much. I have watched over the past twenty years or more here in California how the Black’s “teamed up” with the Mexicans to form a “political alliance,” which is now falling apart now that the Mexicans have become a political force. They don’t need the Black’s any longer and as a consequence, Black influence is seriously on the wane here. And as we continue to have high housing prices, Blacks are being forced out of our cities. Whole areas of San Francisco that used to be Black ghettos, are now torn down and rebuilt to house the folks from Google, Apple and Facebook. So now the only “view” Blacks have is out the back window of the bus taking them elsewhere.


47 posted on 12/07/2014 1:23:03 PM PST by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv

John Schindler: My sweet Southern mama was hardcore Democrat. Now she’s hardcore Republican. Used to worship JFK, now Fox. None of her views have changed.

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/541446955344621568


48 posted on 12/07/2014 2:35:14 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

Mama always thought she was a liberal, then she woke up one day and was told she was backwards & racist. She didn’t change, the country did.

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/541454476029489152


49 posted on 12/07/2014 2:36:33 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought whitey didn’t matter anymore. Geesh, they never go away.


50 posted on 12/07/2014 2:38:26 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Cowboy Bob
"Wait until Elijah Cummings, James Clyborn, Marcia Fudge, Sheila Jackson Lee and Hank Johnson start demanding leadership positions and become the faces of the Democratic Party to the general public... "

There is already a "black face" leading the party to it's promised black utopia in America:
Barack Hussein (Ebola) Obama.

51 posted on 12/07/2014 3:01:39 PM PST by StormEye
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To: re_nortex
Aside from the trivial matter of skin color, is there really any fundamental difference between Al Sharpton and George Wallace?

George Wallace did become a Christian in his later years and repented of his racism.

52 posted on 12/07/2014 3:17:31 PM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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To: goldstategop
If a third of black voters start defecting, they’re finished.

What do you think Ferguson is about? Expect many more Fergusons in the future.

53 posted on 12/07/2014 3:21:04 PM PST by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: eyedigress

I live in RI. The people are not as liberal as it seems. Regular coffee shop conversations makes me scratch my head as folks are very conservative. What’s happened over the past 70 years is that the Democrats have consolidated all power to themselves. They’ve even taken the power of the Mafia. Any new and upcoming Republicans have their lives investigated and their reputations destroyed. It’s a model for what Obama and company have in store for the nation.


54 posted on 12/07/2014 3:30:35 PM PST by The Public Eye
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To: goldstategop
They’re literally a minority party. The white stool in the rainbow coalition has literally dropped off. That leaves the Democrats between a rock and a hard place. If a third of black voters start defecting, they’re finished.

Black voters are unlikely to start defecting.

White WOMEN, on the other hand, who are a major Dem constituency, may be another story.

Before Obama, there was an enormous pool of concern and sympathy for the plight of poor blacks among white folk. Black may disbelieve all they want, but it's true. Or rather, it WAS true before Obama, Sharpton, the Zimmerman trial, the Ferguson riots, etc, etc.

God help American blacks when the pool of good will dries up.

55 posted on 12/07/2014 3:46:56 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: The Public Eye

I did not mean to offend you but what I see there is a systematic poor class that has no defense against the rich.

Doesn’t John Kerry moor his sloop in Narraganset? We all know why.

I am very disappointed with RI for keeping the status quo year after year, generation after generation. It is utter ignorance.


56 posted on 12/07/2014 3:47:10 PM PST by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Graybeard58
George Wallace did become a Christian in his later years and repented of his racism.

Good for him! But did Wallace also renounce his liberalism?

57 posted on 12/07/2014 3:48:43 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: SeekAndFind

.....and 0bama will continue to listen to the 60% of voters who stayed home


58 posted on 12/07/2014 3:56:23 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: re_nortex
Good for him! But did Wallace also renounce his liberalism?

I really don't know but at the very least he repented of the racism aspect of liberalism after he became wheel chair bound. He went around to black churches testifying of his change and asking for forgiveness, he was well received among black Christians.

59 posted on 12/07/2014 4:03:16 PM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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To: re_nortex

The comparison was between $harpton and Wallace. Do you think we will ever see the day when “reverend” Al repents?


60 posted on 12/07/2014 4:05:01 PM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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