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Related: About this forum5 signs Scott Walker is employing GOP’s racist “Southern Strategy”
The candidate's new push for a "right-to-work" law is just his latest appeal to white voters' racial resentmentROGER BYBEE, ALTERNET
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walkers drive for an anti-labor right to work law covering private-sector workers is deeply rooted in the racism of the Deep Souths former slaveholding states.
They are yet more evidence that he is following a template known as the Republican Partys Southern strategy, which plays to white voters racial resentment, even though his budding presidential campaign is based in snow-encrusted Wisconsin.
This emerging strategy is reminiscent of Richard Nixons original Southern strategy of 1968 and Ronald Reagans 1980 campaign kickoff event. Reagan started his campaign by championing states rights in Neshoba County in Mississippi, a site whose only national symbolic significance was serving as the site of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
Many progressive commentators have asserted that major demographic shifts among Latinos and the young have utterly closed off the road to the White House for any GOP candidate. But Thomas B. Edsall cautioned that a different scenario could emerge.
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5 signs Scott Walker is employing GOP’s racist “Southern Strategy” (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2015
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. His base here in Wisconsin loves the racism. Also jokes about the disabled and "crazy people."
blm
(113,037 posts)2. RW Talk radio mentality.
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apnu
(8,749 posts)3. Except that Wisconsin is a very white state. 88.1% white as of the last Census.
Its amusing to me that Badger red necks are so worried about a problem that, by looking out their window to see, doesn't exist.
Wisconsin, I love the land, but the people are really whacked out.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Yeah, but the 88% figure the other 12% are all drug addicts in Milwaukee, and all on welfare.
Racism is rampant here.