Arkansas Democrats could teach a great class on how to lose completely dominant power in 8 years, haha.
Not Pandering to Racists 101?
That would imply Democrats were "pandering to racists" as recently as 2012. Don't buy it.
Nah, but they weren't seen as an anti-white hate group until Obama was re-elected. That was the last straw for Appalachia.
As if that would be more traumatic for these "racist" former-Democrats than his initial election? And why didn't they reject local Democrats in, ya know, the year Obama was re-elected (and they voted overwhelmingly against him)? LOL, again, don't buy it. There's no end to this story that doesn't involve some serious incompetence on the part of the Arkansas Democratic Party. Republicans survived the Bush years remaining relatively strong in New England.
For a large chunk it was, but many of them just saw it as a fluke. In fact, pretty much every Republican and their mother was saying 2008 was a fluke and America would "fix their mistake" in 2012, since supposedly Americans only voted for Obama to prove they're not racist. Racist Appalachian Dixiecrats mostly bought this theory, which is why they felt comfortable voting for "the right kind of Democrat", including in 2012 when they thought Obama would lose in a landslide. But once the black guy was re-elected, all bets were off. They abandoned the anti-white hate group faster than Obama could give his victory speech.
