Krugman implies Mississippi elected Republican governor b/c of racism

New York Times ^ | November 7th, 2003 | Paul Krugman

[Gdzine]

So did Mississippi voters support the Republicans, even though they get very little direct benefit from Bush-style tax cuts, because they — unlike New Jersey's voters — understand the magic of supply-side economics? If you believe that, I've got an overpass on the Garden State Parkway you may be interested in buying.

Now maybe New Jersey voted Democratic because of irrational Bush hatred. But I think it's a lot more likely that white Mississippi voters, unlike their counterparts up north, are still responding to Republican flag-waving — and it's not just the American flag that's being waved.

[buffyt]

YES BIG FOOT IN MOUTH! That is just priceless! I just copied it and sent it to some people who will REALLY ENJOY it! He is such a scary dude.

[Timesink]

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[Kuksool]

Another liberal whining and making up excuses. Liberals will soon inisist on making voting Republican a hate crime.

[buffyt]

and it is hard to understand their deep hatred of the south, since there are so many wonderful things here, like M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, one of the best cancer treatment centers in the world. People come here from all over the world for cancer treatment. We have some of the best hospital facilities in the world. We have NASA where everyone is a rocket scientist. We have brilliant minds working at the petro-chemical plants all over the south. etc. etc. etc.

[Dan from Michigan]

Isn't Musgrove WHITE???

[Our man in washington]

Krugman's argument--in dialogue form:

Candidate: Vote for me and I will give you five dollars.

Voter: No, I don't think so.

Candidate: Is your opponent offering you money?

Voter: Nope.

Candidate: Then you're irrational not to vote for me. It's against your economic interest.

Voter: I don't trust people who try to buy my vote.

Candidate: Since it's against your economic interest, you must be voting against me because you're a racist. After all, human beings only have two motives: money and racial hatred.

[Arkie2]

Folks like Krugman never get tired of reminding southerners they lost the civil war. I learned at my daddys knee to ignore their bile. Krugman knows far more about the mideast ( nothing ) than he does the south. Take anything he says about the south with a very large grain of salt and move on. Nothing here but a blathering liberal yankee.

[Dan from Michigan]

BTW - I can think of another reason MS went GOP.

Hollywood and Northeast Elitism??

[eyespysomething]

lol!!!

[Arkie2]

Not to mention they have the fairest assembly of coeds on campus this side of heaven.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>First, Democrats and moderate Republicans created institutions — above all, Social Security and Medicare — that provided a measure of financial security to ordinary working Americans. The biggest beneficiaries of these institutions were African-Americans and working-class Southern whites, and both were part of the moderate-to-liberal coalition that dominated American politics until the 1960's.

Does this sound almost like Genesis. This guy worships government. To him, it's gone beyond being a lever or a tool. Krugman practises programatic fetishism. He endows Medicare and SS with mythic, religeous potency. He ignores the obvious fact that both are vampiring our national treasury and will turn generations of Americans against one another as they bankrupt America's future.

Krugman makes slightly more sense than the Branch Davidians. Just not much.

[Grampa Dave]

Metro Howie is a very scary person.

[Seeking the truth]

Mr. Dean wasn't suggesting that his party adopt the G.O.P. strategy of coded racial signals, and by and large African-Americans — my wife included — understand that. What he meant by his flag remark was that Democrats must make the case to working Americans of all colors that the right's elitist agenda isn't in their interest. And he's right.

Hmmmm, never knew this. Apparently, his wife is black.

[Naspino]

there are so many wonderful things here...

Its all offset by the presence of CNN in Atlanta.

[OpusatFR]

This is all part of the DNC and Dean's Southern strategy.

They are stating that all Southerners are racists.

Now doesn't that just make you want to vote for the dwarves and the rest of the liberal elite?

I have to get a WWBD bumpersticker for my truck.

[finnman69]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2090620/\

Krugman Gotcha Contest
Plus more campaign cocooning.
By Mickey Kaus
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003, at 1:23 AM PT


I love Whack-A-Pol, especially the little arms when they come out of their holes. But it told me I should be voting for Carol Moseley Braun. ... 12:56 A.M.

Yikes! Now that his political career has crashed, Robert Reich is starting to say interesting things again. (Don't worry, not too interesting.) 11:58 P.M.

It finally looks as if the economy is recovering as opposed to spiraling into a Japan-style pit of deflation and permanent Bush-induced joblessness. That means the long-awaited Krugman Gotcha Contest can begin. A prize, to be announced, for the kf reader who comes up with the gloom-and-doom opinion from the fabled Princeton economist's recent writings that now looks the most embarrassingly wrong. ... You'd assume Donald Luskin would win this contest, but he might be so blindered by Krugmanoia and right-wing economic thinking that he overlooks a juicy nugget. ... It's a big paper trail! Everybody can win! Even Brad DeLong! ... Here's a good place to start. ... Note: No truncated quotes, edited quotes, or out-of-context quotes that don't actually reflect what Krugman is saying. Leave that to him. ... Also: Things that seemed obviously wrong at the time Krugman wrote them don't qualify. The prize is for a statement that now looks highly embarrassing in light of recent economic news. ... Send entries to Mickey_Kaus@msn.com ... (I've made highly embarrassing economic predictions myself. Here's one. But I'm not in the "circle of Those Who Get Money Calls.") ... 3:02 P.M.

[WaterDragon]

Thinly-veiled statement that Mississippians are showing they are prone to racism by electing Barbour.

The Democrats have such contempt for Southerners, and for all Americans who demonstrate "Southern" sensibilities! They don't get it that those are AMERICAN sensibilities.

[buffyt]

Hey, don't hold THAT slimey place - CNN against us! Yikes~

[Grit]

The Generosity Index

State	Having Rank	Giving Rank	Rank Relation	Generosity Index
Mississippi	50	6	44	1
Arkansas	47	5	42	2
South Dakota	45	8	37	3
Oklahoma	43	10	33	4
Alabama	41	9	32	5
Tennessee	35	3	32	6
Louisiana	44	12	32	7
Utah	30	2	28	8
South Carolina	39	14	25	9
Idaho	42	20	22	10
North Dakota	46	29	17	11
Wyoming	18	1	17	12
Texas	19	4	15	13
West Virginia	48	33	15	14
Nebraska	34	21	13	15
North Carolina	27	15	12	16
Florida	21	13	8	17
Kansas	26	19	7	18
Missouri	29	23	6	19
Georgia	16	11	5	20
New Mexico	37	32	5	21
Montana	49	45	4	22
Kentucky	40	38	2	23
Alaska	25	27	-2	24
New York	4	7	-3	25
Indiana	28	31	-3	26
Iowa	36	42	-6	27
Ohio	33	43	-10	28
California	6	17	-11	29
Washington	11	22	-11	30
Maine	38	49	-11	31
Maryland	5	18	-13	32
Hawaii	31	44	-13	33
Delaware	14	28	-14	34
Illinois	10	24	-14	35
Pennsylvania	22	36	-14	36
Connecticut	1	16	-15	37
Vermont	32	47	-15	38
Virginia	9	25	-16	39
Oregon	24	41	-17	40
Colorado	7	26	-19	41
Arizona	20	40	-20	42
Michigan	17	37	-20	43
Nevada	13	34	-21	44
Wisconsin	23	46	-23	45
Minnesota	12	39	-27	46
Massachusetts	3	30	-27	47
New Jersey	2	35	-33	48
Rhode Island	15	50	-35	49
New Hampshire	8	48	-40	50

 

As Walter E. Williams pointed out today - you have to get all the way to 21 before you find a "Gore" state. :) Liberals are so compassionate.

[okie01]

But the right opened an increasingly effective counterattack, with a strategy that included using racially charged symbolism to get Southern whites to vote against their own economic interests.

I believe the above is proof that Krugman is on the DNC fax list. "Southern whites voting against their own economic interest" has become a mantra -- like gravitas.

If I've seen this line once, I've seen it a dozen times in the past week. It's all the rage, it seems, among the mainstream media...