How do the Alabama Democratic Party get power back?

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They need to emulate the West Virginia Democratic Party. All of these statewide offices are competitive if they can run the right candidates. Someone mentioned Walter Maddox in the thread, and he would be a good pick for doing just this. Alabama just needs some time to find its Joe Manchin/JBE/Jim Hunt.

Rigid racial dynamics make it a lot more difficult in Alabama than West Virginia.

However, there is one fairly interesting quirk about Alabama that may or may not matter: the unionisation rate compared to every other Southern state.

[White Trash]

They need to emulate the West Virginia Democratic Party. All of these statewide offices are competitive if they can run the right candidates. Someone mentioned Walter Maddox in the thread, and he would be a good pick for doing just this. Alabama just needs some time to find its Joe Manchin/JBE/Jim Hunt.

Rigid racial dynamics make it a lot more difficult in Alabama than West Virginia.

However, there is one fairly interesting quirk about Alabama that may or may not matter: the unionisation rate compared to every other Southern state.

The industrialization of the South presents the Democratic Party with a great opportunity. If there can be a concentrated movement to get Southern workers to unionize en mass, then the Democratic Party could create for themselves a brand new voting base. As factories shutter in the Rust Belt, new ones open up in Dixie.

If the national Democratic Party can get serious about expanding union rights and striking down right-to-work laws, they will see their margins in the South improve for all offices. The party really has nothing to lose by doing this.

[Old Man Willow]

They can't. AL whites will never vote for the party that doesn't hate and intend to destroy "the others".

[kyc0705]

As it's been said elsewhere in this thread, I think that stat about Alabama's union rates is significant. It's going to be all about how the Democratic party embraces that subset and appeals to union principles and pro-union planks. I don't think the party will start reaping results immediately, but there's certainly no excuse for them to be left for dead in the state like they are now — especially in the aftermath of years worth of awful press for the state GOP.

[Kingpoleon]

They can't. AL whites will never vote for the party that doesn't hate and intend to destroy "the others".

They're already voting for the Republicans.

[The Mikado]

What if the Dems ran a racist Democrat?

They say things like deport illegals and support guns, etc... but favor Medicaid expansion, raising min. wage, etc...?

Given that the Democratic Party of Alabama is nearly all black, you're more likely to lose because all your voters are staying home.