IceSpear, you are a stain on the Alabama threads and a stain on the forum.
Man, never in a million years would I have predicted a sizable amount of Atlas users would get SO butthurt over someone saying the Republican candidate is going to win an Alabama Senate election, lol.
Well, you did singlehandely kill the Democratic Party in WV, and it appears you want to put the Democratic Party of AL in an even weaker position than it already is.
What I can say, is that Alabama does have a significant proportion of the population that used to work in the Coal Mines in Northern 'Bama (Like my buddy Ray born and bred in Tuscaloosa), the Blue Collar steel Mills of Birmingham, the shipyards of Mobile, where essentially Alabama played a key role in the Industrial Revolution within the former states of the Old Confederacy, even prior to the Civil War, and certainly benefited significantly under the New Deal of FDR.
So, here is a UMWA shirt dating back to the days of the '89 Pittston Coal Strike....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittston_Coal_strikeNow, interestingly enough, tons of Southern African-Americans left 'Bama starting in the '40s and for decades after moving to places like Detroit, Cinci, Oakland, etc...
Alabama went from being an heavily Black State State to being one of the "Whitest" States in the Deep South, because of that whole "Push-Pull Demographic Pattern"....
Now, fast forward to the '80s and 'Bama starts to actually experience a bit of net In-Migration for the first time in quite awhile, where folks start streaming into the Auto plants in places like Tuscaloosa and Madison County from elsewhere, as part of a Union-Busting, Double-Breasting, Manufacturing Parts Out-Sourcing Supply Chain Operation, to reduce their business costs against unfair trade practices coming from Asia and Europe, where beloved Ronald Reagan didn't lift a finger....
In the factory floor where I work, we all know how to "lift a finger" to that BS....
Ok--- all hyperbole aside, the Northern Yankee stereotype of Alabama does a deep disservice, to a state that sees itself as "New South" (And has done for quite some time, if I might add), and adds to the "Victim Complex", which has historical cultural legacies for generations among many White 'Bamans, which arguably started as the last ditch effort to protect a White Supremacist rule starting back in the days of George Wallace.
Although long times are generally and frequently now forgotten among most voters in the State, there is still a residual cancer that still remains, especially among Older White voters of a certain generation.
Now idea how this wild card election will roll come December, but the pandering to Southern Resentment generally plays a bit better in 'Bama than most Southern States, regardless of the 70% of Alabama Voters that Completely or Partially agree with the Testimonials of the victims...
It will be interesting to see a poll after the Iron Bowl Weekend, now that the 14 year old victim has come forward publicly on National TV (Which will likely dominate Alabama Statewide news this Thanksgiving Weekend) to tell her story as a God fearing White Republican who talks intimately about her personal experience of being sexually assaulted by Moore...
This s**t is real folks, and it doesn't matter if it a Senior Democrat in places like California, Illinois, New York, nor Florida, let alone Republicans from basically the same states and then some others...
Still, here we have a Republican Party that in many cases is turning a Blind Eye at both the National and Statewide level against a candidate that has legitimate and validated evidence regarding sexual assault regarding minors....
Which side are you on 'Pubs, Which side are you on?
