What do you base that on? The whitest areas voted for Cameron. The most Republican areas voted for Cameron. He got 47% of the vote - if he didn't have white support he could have had far less than this. And Cameron was an elected incumbent official - further contradicting this alleged "problem." He was already elected, and his race was not hidden...everyone knew who he was...and he was nominated overwhelmingly against very strong opponents. Only the yellow dog Democrat and urban/suburban areas where the Beshears have long been popular voted against him...but he even carried Pike County, so if his race was still a reason he was not going to get support he would not have won there. Kentucky is long past that now...it has become less racist as it has become more Republican.
Stop pushing the Left's attacks on our party. It's a lie.
“What do you base that on? The whitest areas voted for Cameron.”
I base that on facts as opposed to emotional wailing, and “the whitest areas voted for Cameron” is NOT a fact.
Bath County: 95% white, Cameron lost. Trump won it twice by heavy margins.
Boyd County: 93% white, Cameron lost. Trump won it twice by solid margins.
Breathitt County: 96% white, Cameron lost. Same Trump comment as the others.
Campbell County: 92% white, Cameron lost. Trump won here in 2020 by almost 20 points.
Floyd County: 97% white, Cameron lost. Trump got 75%.
Knott County: 97% white, Cameron lost. Trump got over 75%.
Letcher County: 97% white, Cameron lost. Trump got almost 80%.
See a pattern yet?
Magoffin, Nelson, Nicholas, Perry, Powell, Rowan, Wolfe.
All fit exactly the same description as the others.
Cameron got elected A.G. in the 2019 downballot statewide sweep in Kentucky. Maybe, just maybe, voters are a tiny bit more aware of who the candidates are for Governor than they are for races like A.G., Comptroller, Dog Catcher, Prothonotary or whatever.
When black candidates run as Republicans in HIGH PROFILE races in marginal states — and sometimes even supposedly solid GOP states like Kentucky — they lose way more often than they win.
That doesn’t mean the GOP shouldn’t run — or support — a black candidate if he is the best option available. WE may support the guy but clearly a decisive proportion of those lily-white voters did not. Maybe they had other reasons, but lying about Cameron’s wonderful (but actually non-existent) landslide among white voters isn’t helpful.