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In reply to the discussion: Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost [View all]BumRushDaShow
(129,775 posts)Democrats haven't won the "white working class (male) vote" since Johnson. Even Jimmy Carter got less white vote than Ford - https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-1976/
And surprise surprise what happened after the 1964 vote? A little something called the Voting Rights Act AND the 24th Amendment, where a whole demographic was given protections to vote. And there began the white flight.
You have "the south" with states that have between 25% - 40% black population, yet those states are hardcore "red" (although some like GA are finally starting to soften). No one seems to want to address THAT issue.
This "TPP" bullshit that became endless fodder on DU is something that probably 90% of Americans have no idea of what the fuck it was. In 2010, you had Democrats running away from Obama regarding the ACA, where all of a sudden it's "popular" now. The ODS here on DU was just a magnification of the same sentiment nationwide. The election of a black man who had come out of a white woman's body was too much for the senses of millions in this racist fucking country and we are seeing the "white lash" effect of that.
And when you denigrate a state like California, that has embodied the heart and soul of the Democratic party platform across all of its planks, it makes one wonder what the real agenda is.
As Johnson famously noted -