5 Signs Scott Walker Is Using GOP’s Racist ‘Southern Strategy’ to Win in 2016

Global News ^ | March 3, 2015 | must have been a group effort

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RE :”Walker and his allies have strenuously worked to police and restrict voting, with measures that will make it much more difficult for African Americans and Latinos to vote and via partisan redistricting, which redraws district lines to intentionally dilute Democratic strongholds.
Walker’s bill restricting voter rights came almost immediately after the Occupy-style labor revolt against his push to crush public-sector unions. Frances Fox Piven, author of many books on voting rights and social movements, told me, “We saw labor protests of unprecedented size and intensity over limiting their voice as workers. And then [protesters] were greeted with a law to limit their power electorally, too.”

Good!

[9YearLurker]

I’m no fan of Walker for national office, CW, as you may recall, from his positions on immigration.

But this hit piece is unadulterated bull hockey.

[eyeamok]

deeply rooted in the racism of the Deep South’s former slaveholding states.??? HUH??

Those were ALL DEMOCRAT STATES!!

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The idea that "deep down" everything is about race and racism isn't convincing. Come to think of it, it sounds like the whole "they hate us and want to destroy us" school of politics applied to skin color. People have plenty of other reasons to disagree with policies, other than race or racism or wanting to destroy anybody.

For him, “the most salient demographic change from 2008 to 2012 was the drop in white voters,” and specifically, “downscale, Northern, rural whites.” It’s unlikely that these voters were liberal, and if they were in the electorate, there’s a good chance they would have broken for Romney in large numbers.

Assuming that everybody who's "unlikely to be liberal" is conservative in the sense many of us use it, is a mistake. It's the sort of mistake people make with Perot voters. They certainly weren't liberal in the Berkeley-Cambridge-Manhattan-San Francisco sense and would be open to vote for a Republican, but it certainly doesn't follow that they're looking for the most conservative of Republican candidates. There are things about conservatives and Republicans that they also may not like. So, yes, Romney wasn't the right candidate to win them over, but the right candidate wasn't necessarily the most conservative one, and probably wasn't in the race either.

[gingerbread]

You aint seen nothing yet. The closer he gets to the presidency, the more vicious the attacks will be. You will see more and more vote stealing. This is going to be the dirtiest campaign in history, should Walker get the nomination.

[Fledermaus]

Written by union hacks.

[lentulusgracchus]

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While Walker is promoting the “right to work” in the name of “free choice,” this anti-union movement has explicitly racist roots in the Deep South, where the purpose of the original right-to-work laws was precisely to deny free choice to workers who want unions to help them escape misery-level wages and tyrannical control.

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I nominate this pretzelly non-sequitur for the "Massive Incoherence of the Month" Award.

How racism and wage-breaking had anything to do with "right to work" is utterly incomprehensible. Racism was a response by poor whites to the Man's use of black labor to undercut the earning ability of white labor. The whites couldn't do anything about the Man, who owned the sheriff and the lawyers and the newspaper publishers and the rest of the professional class through his patronization, but they could try to disrupt the rich/poor conspiracy against them by roughing up the black poor.

"Right to work" was proprietor-class resistance to left-wing labor syndicalism and closed-shop unionism, which had zippo to do with racism per se. How "right to work" fostered racism is mysterious, since "right to work" was a project of the moneyed interests who were "plantation liberals" who esteemed and used black labor as a weapon and a tool. They were not fomenters of racism as much as fomenters of wage-breaking, which exacerbated racism but actually had nothing to do with any race but the race of Green Benjamins.

The connection between "right-to-work" laws and racism argued for here is not proven.

[lentulusgracchus]

Bump.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] .... and via partisan redistricting, which redraws district lines to intentionally dilute Democratic strongholds.

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Whoa, there, Jocko, you've got your athletic supporter twisted around backwards.

The whole idea of modern racial gerrymandering (as promoted by Richard M. Nixon) has been to isolate black voters in electoral "cancer wards" where hypermajorities are concentrated to eyeball-popping levels, but surrounding districts are likewise spared their democracy-busting, staight-ticket-Democratic voting patterns.

If all the black racist (since the author is calling people racists today) voters in Sheila Jackson Lee's old Houston district (which 40 years ago elected George H. W. Bush to the House, before the Democrats redrew it especially and specifically for Barbara Jordan) , as it was, say, 16 years ago, were redistributed among three or four districts, the Texas House GOP Caucus might be down two or three members.

Something to think about. And it was exactly what Dick Nixon was thinking about when he promoted "minority-majority" redistricting, to "de-blacken" as many U. S. House districts as possible nationwide, to take the pressure off Republican candidates (since black voters generally hate Republicans and vote against them 9:1 or 8:1; even educated blacks vote against them by 2:1 or 3:1).

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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