Posted on 11/19/2007 8:22:06 PM PST by neverdem
Over the past few weeks there have been a number of commentaries about Ronald Reagans legacy, specifically about whether he exploited the white backlash against the civil rights movement.
The controversy unfortunately obscures the larger point, which should be undeniable: the central role of this backlash in the rise of the modern conservative movement.
The centrality of race and, in particular, of the switch of Southern whites from overwhelming support of Democrats to overwhelming support of Republicans is obvious from voting data.
For example, everyone knows that white men have turned away from the Democrats over God, guns, national security and so on. But what everyone knows isnt true once you exclude the South from the picture. As the political scientist Larry Bartels points out, in the 1952 presidential election 40 percent of non-Southern white men voted Democratic; in 2004, that figure was virtually unchanged, at 39 percent.
More than 40 years have passed since the Voting Rights Act, which Reagan described in 1980 as humiliating to the South. Yet Southern white voting behavior remains distinctive. Democrats decisively won the popular vote in last years House elections, but Southern whites voted Republican by almost two to one.
The G.O.P.s own leaders admit that the great Southern white shift was the result of a deliberate political strategy. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. So declared Ken Mehlman, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, speaking in 2005.
And Ronald Reagan was among the some who tried to benefit...
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Thus, Reagan repeatedly told the bogus story of the Cadillac-driving welfare queen a gross exaggeration of a minor case of welfare fraud. He never mentioned the womans race, but he didnt have to...
That IS interesting. I have lots of "spots" of brown/black all over my body! Wonder if I counted them all up they would add up to a "percent?" just funnin you!
LOL... When did Klugman get promoted?
lmao
In Chappaqua,91.8% of residents are white.In the US,75.1% are.In Chappaqua,0.9% of residents are black.In the US,12.3% are.In Chappaqua,0.0% of residents are American Indians.In the US,0.9% are.In Chappaqua,5.6% of residents are Asian.In the US,3.6% are.In Chappaqua,0.5% of residents are "other race".In the US,5.5% are.And in Chappaqua,1.1% of residents are listed as "two or more races".In the US,2.4% are.
So,Mr Krugman...how's that for multicultural thinking? And how would the town in which *you* live compare to Chappaqua and to the US as a whole?
I was loaded with freckles when I was a kid. They seemed to go along with the long red braids I wore my hair in.
I hope you remembered.
It would only be recessive if you lived in a tropical climate. A high melanin content of the skin protects against cancer and thus is a positive trait in the tropics. In the northern latitudes less melanin is a positive trait as UV rays from the sun is what produces vitamin D in the human body. (It really sucks to have rickets) The color of our skin is a result of where we live. It is genetically advantageous to be black in the tropics and white in the northern latitudes. If you took blond blue eyed Norwegians and made them live in Central Africa in 20,000 years their children would be black but 100% Caucasian.
Martin Luther King said we should not be judged by the color of our skin. He was right.
I was explaining something that was recently discovered during the human genome project. Humans arose as a species in Africa. Everyone is genetically black and all other skin tones are variations due to mutation.
Has Paul Krugman ever been right about anything?
Recessive does not mean inferior. It simply describes the way some genes work.
bears repeating. Thanks.
he must have gotten something amazingly wrong, since Kerry didn't win many states in the north, or south, by 60+% to 40-%. Since white males would be expected to be the leading demographic in either region, these guys ought to lose their licenses for political analysis. Amazing for a guy on the economics faculty of one of the best universities in the country. Michael Barone ought to take him on on this one and deal him a lesson.
We don't pretend we ignore it, but it isn't particularly important.
ML/NJ
Krugman needs to start looking into a mirror and see how “racist” the democrats have become. Anytime I see anything he writes, it is filled with disdain against Bush or Republicans.
After the welfare reform bill was passed in 1996, 33% of welfare recipients vanished. No welfare fraud? Indeed.
thanks neverdem.
McDermott makes list of author’s 100 worst Americans
The Seattle Times | 7/5/05 | Alicia Mundy
Posted on 07/05/2005 5:13:38 AM EDT by ppaul
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1436704/posts
“8. Paul Krugman, columnist at The New York Times”
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004
Right Wing News | 1.3.2005 | by John Hawkins
Posted on 01/03/2005 8:37:25 PM EST by Semper911
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313307/posts
“25) “But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at (the Republican National Convention), for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation’s freedom, diversity and complexity.” — Paul Krugman”
US Dollar plunge could lead to full-blown financial crisis
The Straits Times | 01.17.04 | William Choong
Posted on 01/18/2004 3:45:18 PM EST by Beck_isright
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1060474/posts
“In a paper presented earlier this month, three analysts - including former US treasury secretary Robert Rubin - argued that Washington’s twin deficits could amount to what some have termed a ‘full-blown, Third World-style financial crisis’. Mr Paul Krugman, a prominent economist who foresaw the 1997 Asian financial crisis, drew the conclusion as early as last October. In a New York Times column, he said the US economy was approaching a ‘Wile E. Coyote’ moment - when the coyote in the famous Road Runner cartoon runs off a cliff, only to realise at the last minute - too late - that it is about to plunge to the bottom. ‘What will the plunge look like? It will certainly involve a sharp fall in the dollar and sharp rise in interest rates,’ he wrote. ‘In the worst-case scenario, the government’s access to borrowing will be cut off, creating a cash crisis that throws the nation into chaos.’”
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