Some of my fellow red avatars/liberals here:
"Stupid poor white trash rednecks and hicks who have the
nerve to not automatically vote Democratic. Why do they vote against their best interests? Why don't they vote for Democrats?
"
If you treat people with utter contempt, they will respond in kind. Basic human behavior. And it really doesn't do any favors for the reputations of (supposedly) highly educated upper-middle class liberals (most of whom are also white, FTR) to act like elitist, classist snobs whose favorite pastime is being actively antagonistic toward less economically fortune white people. Just because they are, in your view, the "wrong" kind of white people (how racist and classist is
that?) or are otherwise embarrassments to American culture (which is - and this is an important point - quite racist at
all levels, with middle and upper class whites being far, far absolved from said racism), doesn't mean that you are justified in denying them political agency. That is the
last thing that they - or any other social group, for that matter - need or want.
And just as an FYI, there are still more working class white voters than there are middle and upper class white voters; moreover, this is especially true in many key swing states and in districts that Democrats desperately need to make inroads into if they ever again want control of the House of Representatives and/or a majority of state legislatures. That should give us Democrats pause, next time any of us are tempted to sneer at working class (white) people "voting against their interests."
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