Posted on 11/23/2017 7:17:07 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
This is something that fell on the backburner, but a bit interesting. A poll showed that a significant amount of white southerners feel they’re under attack. I can see how. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but the fact remains that Confederate statues, the flag, etc. are all cornerstones of southern culture. It’s part of American history as well. Not one of our best moments, but a part of it nonetheless. Here’s the breakdown of the survey (via The Hill):
Nearly half of white American poll respondents living in the South feel like they’re under attack, a new Winthrop University poll found.
Forty-six percent of white Southerners polled said they agree or strongly agree that white people are under attack in the U.S. More than three-fourths of black respondents said they believe racial minorities are under attack.
And 30 percent of all respondents in the poll agreed when asked if America needs to protect and preserve its white European heritage. More than half of respondents disagreed with the statement.
Forty percent of respondents said they believed that Confederate statues should remain as is, while nearly a quarter said a plaque should be added to contextualize the statue.
Let’s step away from the Confederate statutes for a second. One just has to look at the recent Virginia gubernatorial election to see how the Left sees rural voters. In the waning days of the 2017 elections in Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam seems to have coordinated with an outside group—the Latino Victory Fund—to push this horrific ad, showing a supporter of Republican candidate Ed Gillespie driving a pickup truck, with a Confederate flag flying, and running over nonwhite kids. Yes, because all white people drive pickup trucks. All whites support the Confederacy—and they just can’t wait to run over blacks, Asians, Muslims and Hispanics. That’s how the Left feels about people, who don’t live in the cities, don’t have college educations, and don’t have a liberal mindset. They must all be racists. That sentiment permeates the Clinton camp, which truly thinks that Hillary Clinton lost due to sexism, racism, and misogyny. It couldn’t be that she was a terrible candidate, who had zero economic messages, ignored white rural voters (and the Rust Belt in general), and was distrusted by the electorate.
To be even more hypocritical, Democrats, especially those in Virginia, try to sell that they’re somehow adhering to an inclusive agenda for an inclusive Virginia, seemingly forgetting that they ran an ad that heavily insinuated that all white voters are genocidal racists. Even NBC’s Chuck Todd noted the horrific theme of the ad, asking Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez if he thought he was racist since he drives a pick-up truck.
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Democrats need Trump voters. It’s a fact. They need to win them back in order to retake the House, Senate, and The White House if they wish. The gains made in Virginia are remarkable, but they’re tempered by the fact that it’s a state that Hillary won in 2016, and Democrats flipped state legislative districts that were already in Hillary-land. It’s still not a sure thing. Furthermore, these people aren’t aliens. In fact, a good chunk of them hold economically progressive views. They’re swing voters. Obama was able to compete with them—twice. No, he didn’t win the white working class vote, but he won enough to them to avoid have the score run up in the rural regions that allowed Trump to clinch a solid win over Hillary was last year. Yeah, I know—cue the meaningless and worthless popular vote talking points by Democrats. We all knew California was going blue—and it will still go blue, but Republican nabbed Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan—all thanks to Obama voters who flipped. Democrats would do well not roll their eyes at this poll, nor is it a good idea to just label all southern whites as racists. Then again, they’re not going to take this seriously.
One last thing; as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday I guess I should thank my parents, the best in the world who happen to be white, for not purposefully running me over with a motor vehicle. Thanks to the Left's embrace of identity politics, it makes me even more proud to be a Republican and not part of that orgy of insanity.
Not really the same situation.
When I worked at the unemployment office in Iowa many of the better-off blacks were headed to Atlanta.
They are. It’s not just an “I feel like I’m under attack.”
the South has been America’s whipping boy, blamed for all of its ills, since the 1840’s.
When this poll says with Southerners, I’m sure that means whites living in the South, which includes a lot of people who have migrated from the north to the south. If they just polled those whose ancestors have lived in the South since before the War Between the States, the majority of them would say agree that they, they’re history and their ancestors are under attack continuously.
Yes Atlanta is the black Mecca because of MLK. But we are being invaded first by all the illegals and now its the Muslims. They are everywhere. Also a lot of Indians on the H1-B.
I am tired of the white privileged crap as well.
Polling on whether or not someone would vote for Trump was skewed several percentage points toward Clinton because people were afraid to admit they’d vote for Trump.
I expect the same bias - giving the liberal approved answer out of fear of attack - is involved.
The Indians here in Dallas/Ft Worth are upper middle class and above and live in tony neighborhoods with Mercedes and BMWs.
And idiot Democrats wonder why they lost the South.
Congress was supposed to keep USA the same natural kind via naturalization.
After WBTS Congress decided naturalization meant unnaturalizing and it continues today.
All naturalization acts since 1870 are really UnNaturalization acts.
Very few understand what really happened and they don’t understand what naturalization means.
Barack Obama wasn’t born the same natural kind.
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I learned to lose my accent and to say that I was from some where else. This wasn't normal kidding, that I could understand but this was real prejudice. So this feeling by southerners isn't new.
“The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool inclines to the left.”
I thought it was the yankees in Pennsylvania that gave Trump the victory in the presidential election...maybe it was that ‘Alabama’ part of PA.
AMEN!!
The other half are CA imports, illegals, BLMs and muzzies.
Grew up in segregated Memphis. Spent working life in lily white Appalachia. Retired now in diverse Upstate South Carolina. With this last change in environment, I experience culture shock rather than attack.
When I moved to North Carolina in the early 80's southerners weren't very friendly to "yankees".
White southerners ARE under attack from Democrats, the media, pop culture and Millinneals.
They are the ones branded “non college educated whites” to shame them for not going some liberal cesspoll university and going to work. These are the folks who at one time were acknowledged as blue collar, middle class workers. A ntegral part of our nations economy. Now they are called Nazis, white isists, hicks and are everything Millennials have been taught to hate about America.
I am Southern California bred and born. While it wasnt always this way, the place is a Socialist cesspool of hell now. The people here overwhelmingly love the Clintons and 0bama and hate Trump, America and “non hispanic whites.” But me, I stand with our Southeren white folks and honor their hard work and contributions to America. I hope one day in the not too distant future to be living in Tennessee with many of these good folks.
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