How can Dems win rural voters?

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Acting like you care about them and taking their concerns seriously instead of just dismissing them all as stupid uneducated hicks and bigots would be a start.

Actually campaigning in rural areas instead of trying to just run up big margins in big cities so you can ignore the rest of the country would be another.

And to everyone talking about “fighting realignment” it doesn’t have to be about winning rural areas outright any more than GOP outreach to black voters needs to have that objective. Just losing rural voters by less than they do now would help Democrats a lot. Also, the realignment is happening precisely BECAUSE Democrats have given rural voters the impression that they don’t care about them and have disdain for them and their way of life.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Very easily


- Relax on the gun stuff. Run Democrats who use the words "I will protect your 2nd Amendment rights in any efforts of reform and together we will pass legislation that EVERYONE can agree on"


- Stop the constant race-baiting because you're dealing with white people. Race-baiting is not necessary as a strategy to gain great numbers out of the black vote


Do that and you'll have immediate success

This is exactly what nearly every major Democratic politician already says. Unfortunately, that does not quell the right's fearmongering about gun-snatching.

“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15”

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Very easily


- Relax on the gun stuff. Run Democrats who use the words "I will protect your 2nd Amendment rights in any efforts of reform and together we will pass legislation that EVERYONE can agree on"


- Stop the constant race-baiting because you're dealing with white people. Race-baiting is not necessary as a strategy to gain great numbers out of the black vote


Do that and you'll have immediate success

This is exactly what nearly every major Democratic politician already says. Unfortunately, that does not quell the right's fearmongering about gun-snatching.

“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15”

Hence why I said "nearly." O'Rourke was roundly excoriated for saying that

On Reddit, sure, but which of his fellow Democratic presidential candidates criticized the idea of gun confiscation after that statement was made?

[Coolface Sock #42069]

They can't. They are a rich suburban white party who looks down on rural voters and working class voters. Thanks Obama!

No, democrats are happy to get rural voters. College-educated people in rural areas, unless the family of giant corporate farmers and executives thereof are as D as any other people. Think of schoolteachers and medical professionals. The blue-collar workers on corporate farms and in dairies, feed lots, and slaughterhouses are heavily non-voters such as non-citizens and Old Order Amish.

When the kids of the farm, dairy, feed-lot, and slaughterhouse workers start voting, then it is over for the Republican dominance in rural areas. Many of those workers are in business operations as regimented as assembly lines of the early twentieth century, and when they vote they will vote much for the political agenda most similar to the Democrats of the 1930's. The Republican party is still hostile to labor unions and has gained votes of working-class people as unions weaken. Just look at West Virginia.   

Most rural Americans do not work on farms or have anything to do with agriculture at all.