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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: Trump Won Because People Are Tired of Politically Correct Rhetoric [View all]pnwmom
(110,338 posts)If he's trying to reach them, he should start by giving them real information. For example, when the woman complained about Obamacare, instead of just nodding his sympathy, he should have explained that her Governor rejected the funds for Medicaid expansion.
This article was written in 2015, before DT's hate campaign really got going. It's probably worse in WI now.
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/investigations/2015/08/13/wisconsin-hate-groups/31567043/
Experts fear a string of racially motivated crimes in the South could spark other cases across the country, including Wisconsin, where nearly a dozen active hate groups exist and more than 300 hate crimes have been committed over the past five years alone.
Extremist groups here demonstrated the violence they are capable of in March when a one-time skinhead went on a bank-robbery spree that left himself and two men dead, including a Wisconsin state trooper.
A Gannett Wisconsin Media investigation revealed that 11 of the nation's 784 active hate groups operate in Wisconsin with Green Bay, Mercer, Milwaukee, New Berlin, and Shawano serving as home bases for several groups. A handful of Ku Klux Klan chapters were active in the state as recently as recently as 2013, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a national organization that tracks such groups.