Posted on 10/01/2019 11:27:29 AM PDT by Jagermonster
Why we wrote this——Democrats might assume that a minority people in North Carolina’s poorest county would vote with them. But as one observer puts it, “This is not about Native American identity. This is about rural Indian values.”
Pembroke, N.C. — The Lumbee Indians of Robeson County about broke Dan McCready’s heart.
The former Marine and clean-energy investor spent 27 months wooing the Lumbee Tribe in rural North Carolina, in a bid to turn the state’s 9th Congressional District Democratic for the first time since 1963.
They were so close. Mr. McCready’s Carolina-blue signs were all over the suburbs of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, where Republicans had always ruled. A GOP fraud scandal had invalidated the 2018 election, forcing the do-over. President Donald Trump had won the district by 12 points in 2016 but, days before a special election, Mr. McCready had a small lead in the polls.
The Lumbees, nearly all of them registered Democrats, could put him over the top. Yet in the end, by some estimates about half the Lumbees voted for the Republican, Dan Bishop, the architect of the state’s controversial 2016 “bathroom bill.”
The hard-right turn of the Lumbees didn’t just turn the election, but turned identity politics on its head, political scientists say. The conflict among the Lumbees goes to the core of how identity politics plays at the ballot box: whether to be defined or to define oneself. At the crux of that divide in this case: minority voting rights versus rural values around guns, faith, and self-reliance.
“Bottom line: We are red-blooded Americans,” says Jason Locklear, a health care executive and member of the 55,000-strong Lumbee people. “There are guns in the trucks in the church parking
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Do the Lumbee’s accept new members? How does one become a Lumbee?
Great. They are starting to realize how the Dems just want to use them.
In a little rural precinct in far West Texas, 28 Hispanic surnames were recorded as voters on Election Day 2016. These are field hands and their wives. A total of 67 people voted, with 49 voting for President Trump. Rural Americans can’t be compartmentalized as neatly as city dwellers.
Holy cow! This needs looking into.
The problem is that urban values can tilt people democrat. And there are a lot more urban people than rural people.
The USA used to be an agrarian culture with 95% of the population living more or less in isolation on family farms, independent and self-dependent. We were a solidly conservative and moral nation then.
Today, 20% of people live in rural areas with 80% living in cities or in their attached suburbs.
The Founding fathers warned us about the dangers of big cities. It is no wonder people become liberal the longer they live in cities, generationally. We lose our independence and self-reliance in cities, and begin depending on the government more and more. One way how commie liberals are made.
Read the Wiki on these people. They sound tough. They attacked Confederates who were trying to conscript them for labor. They attacked a Klan rally. Seriously. Fired up a Klan Rally.
In the early 1700’s NC had numerous tribes spread across the state. Sapona, Uwharrie, Saura, Cawtaba, Ossippie, Wacamaw, Core, and several others. These tribes were virtually wiped out by disease and the survivors often joined other tribes out of necessity.
IMO, the Lumbee are the descendants of mixed tribes and were joined by runaway indentured servants and later slaves from NE NC and VA.
The mixed group prospered in the dense swamps which were far away from colonial and early American population centers.
The Fed Gov doesn’t grant the Lumbee full Native American rights because of their convoluted bloodlines.
The problem is that urban values can tilt people democrat. And there are a lot more urban people than rural people.
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If you live in the city, you are as dependent on government as a newborn to mother. You walk to work on concrete paved by the city and drive on streets by the same. To drink or to wash, you get your water from pipes, not out of the ground or from clouds. You need to eat, you pull your food off a shelf, not off of the land. When you work, you don’t improve the world around you, you only have agreements to exchange knowledge or service for money. You don’t truly produce or transform anything, if you live the city life, more than likely broker in something intangible, like information or the exchange of commodities (that you never touch).
City values = dependancy
Rural values are proven, beneficial to all, and reinforced by nature every day.
“We’re all in this together” is at center.
True. And the city/suburb dwellers want all to be as dependent as they are. Can’t have rugged individuals out there, triggering unwanted feelings in our soy boys and soccer moms.
“City values = dependency”
Spot on. If someone stops pumping your water, stops hauling away your trash or delivering food to stores a city person dies in trash and filth in a matter of days. And deep down then KNOW they are dependent like that. Deep down inside they need laws to control others and protect them.
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