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2016 Postmortem

KT2000

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4. gerrymandering is all about race

Reply to DanTex (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 05:13 PM

Nov 2016

a political party signs on to the Southern Strategy, blows the dog whistles for a few decades, gerrymanders by race (is it a coincidence that rural white areas carried the day?-no), run a candidate who blares racism every day of the campaign and he wins.
Mission accomplished by and for racism. George Wallace finally won.

No time for whiny trump voters here either. Guess they forgot they would be revealed for who they really are and are now looking for cover.

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The media's coddling of racist white people is getting a little sickening. [View all] DanTex Nov 2016 OP

let me say handmade34 Nov 2016 #1

1 n/t okieinpain Nov 2016 #6

When you've lived a life of privilege, equality feels like oppression. stopbush Nov 2016 #9

Wow. That's a great saying. Going to borrow this, if that's that's ok... AgadorSparticus Nov 2016 #11

Not original to me, so borrow away! stopbush Nov 2016 #13

Funny, locally, I saw the opposite The Genealogist Nov 2016 #10

1 n/t okieinpain Nov 2016 #2

"White people in the rust belt are hardly the only people who have had a tough time" lumberjack_jeff Nov 2016 #3

Good point. (nt) PotatoChip Nov 2016 #7

Yeah. Why do the white working class reject it? kcr Nov 2016 #14

gerrymandering is all about race KT2000 Nov 2016 #4

I'm all for the media reminding people that Trump was an outspoken birther. They should have done it think Nov 2016 #5

Yeah, media loves this. People here who do think we need to hammer a stronger message about JCanete Nov 2016 #8

Frankly, while agreeing with you, I have to add... Wounded Bear Nov 2016 #12

lol..."hire some people who speak bigot " uponit7771 Nov 2016 #15

These RWNJs are the same ones who whine about the "liberal media bias" meow2u3 Nov 2016 #16

IOWA had 2% unemployed and yet voted for drumph BSdetect Nov 2016 #17

Well said. Garrett78 Nov 2016 #18