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In reply to the discussion: So, let me get this straight, DU [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Since 2008 many nonwhites suffered that backlash in thousands of different ways around the nation, countless small atrocities to some truly dreadful, and only a few of the latter made the news with a body lying in the street or a release after unjust years in prison.
Although we are still the nation who happily and proudly elected our first black president by a good margin. This happened years before many expected, and we've been shocked and battered as a nation by the depth and fury of the backlash.
But Tuesday's elections contradict that darkness. The women's, suburban, and increased youth vote are rejecting what the Republican Party has become. It seems likely that this may in retrospect mark, not a return to what we all believed was normal before, but that as a nation we have adjusted and are arriving in a new, better place.