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In reply to the discussion: Ed Schultz EXPOSES Cause Of Racism In The South [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)it specifically said
"Who was it that voted for Wallace, then Nixon, then Reagan? The depressing question points to the politically weak people for whom racism was the only bullet left in the chamber."
And the answer to the latter two questions is - a whole bunch of Northerners.
So why single out southerners as the only people who "vote against their best interests"?
Perhaps because it allows northern writers to throw those R-bombs at those backwards-a$$ed hicks in the south?
The voting pattern in the south is certainly no more consistent than that of the west. Since 1952 the states of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas have voted Republican in every year but 1964 when "in their guts, they knew Goldwater was nuts". That's 14 out of 15 presidential elections. (Whoops, Clinton did win Montana, thanks to Perot, in 1992 with 37.6% of the vote).
Meanwhile parts of the south went for Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton.
So why should the south be singled out more than the plains and rockies? Because it allows us to re-fight the Civil War? Because it is just so fun to throw R-bombs at southerners?