Both of them?
My parents and grandparents were Democrats. All were part of labor unions and had a deep distrust of big business. But other than that, they were mostly conservative when it came to taxes, defense, immigration, schools, etc. A long buried dinosaur it seems.
What a load of bull. And by the way, even if they get a new brand of lip stick, all it means is that the pig looks a little better, but it is still a pig.
How stupid can people be? If government is a tool to lift people out of economic hardship, the only result will be more government and more hardship.
Please...........
What Dims know they are peddling is Socialism Lite. They just keep trying to rebrand it as something else. There aren’t nearly enough people in the South anymore who would give up their free will to allow that sort of infection to spread again. Sure, you have your Atlantas, your Selmas, your Birminghams, but that sort of liberal squalor festers in pockets all across the land. We have it surrounded. Dims of fifty years ago were about the equivalent of Romneyesque RINOs of today. Today’s Dims have strayed so far off the left shoulder of the road, they’re not even in the same zip code anymore. Yesterday’s Leftist radical is today’s mainstream face of the ‘Rat Party.
They are that delusional if they think the national party’s toxic liberal policies will play well in the South.
They’re that of touch with the mood of the region. After a catastrophic wipeout this month, they’re going to double down on what failed.
Then again, they’re Democrats after all.
The difficulty here is that the means they have used to energize their African-American base have profoundly alienated whites. Race riots tend to do that.
The problem is the message. "Your freedom depends on the government taking control over every facet of your life" is a loser even among the low information voters.
The democrat machine is fine with queers destroying small businesses that don't kiss the feet of perverts but wants to market itself as looking out for the middle class? Good luck with that.
As for, "the little guy", to a democrat fascist, "the little guy" is a queer who works at an abortion clinic and can only afford the thousand dollar a plate fund raiser, not someone who works for a living at anything productive.
“While the party’s positions on gay rights, minority voting access, women’s rights and immigration are not wrong...”
That’s the ticket. Run on those issues down south.
Much more tuned to their M.O.
Doubling down on delusional. Go for it Dems, it’s worked so well thus far!
CC
The southern democrats aren’t going to attract any white supporters. Stick a fork in the Democrat party in the south. Might as well rename it the New Black Panther Party and get it over with.
Here in Georgia, Democrats thought they had a couple of real ringers - Nunn (who unceremoniously dumped her husband’s last name) and Carter (grandson of the second worst US President).
They COUNTED on those names conjuring up all the old white people predisposed to voting Democrat and getting them out in droves. Nunn even hugged Obama! Carter flashed his teeth. They counted on that good-ole black vote.
Demographics. Georgia has a 8.1% unemployment rate, a couple points higher even than the fake national average. That’s because 31.4% of its population is black (US Census 2013) where the national average is 13.2%.
When you have a government that encourages high entitlement rates (see southeast Georgia, eastern central Georgia and the Atlanta Fulton/DeKalb areas where SNAP is up to 40% in some areas) does nothing national to affect creation of real jobs; lies, cheats and steals money from hard working people; and then tries to tell you a petty dictator is your savior, why in the hell would you vote for them.
To me, this whole Nunn/Carter thing was like reconstruction after the Civil War......wholesale damage and destruction, no jobs, endangered entitlements, bad economy, and then you have the same people come back in who caused it all telling blacks to “do it again” - put them in office.
Nunn/Carter lost stunningly, IMO - no runoffs. They lost because their old white Democrat plantation owners are dead or dying, they lost because whites know better, they lost because blacks finally got tired of Obama and won’t stand up for him, and they lost because of their dead-and-embalmed ideology.
Yep, same old same old. Middle class, blah, blah, blah.
Government creates jobs, blah, blah, blah.
“They are advocating a return to party roots by emphasizing education and public works spending, stronger voting rights laws, tighter bank regulation and labor-friendly policies such as a higher minimum wage.”
Don’t forget homo “rights,” embracing La Raza’s stance on the border and citizenship for anyone who wants it, and unrestricted and taxpayer-paid abortion on demand.
In other words... Foisting even more poisonous liberal policies onto a section of the country that clearly showed in November it rejects them.
Yeah, dems.. sounds like a plan. Go with it.
Gotta love the fact that political correctness will not allow for an honest post-mortem showing why their defeat was so bad, namely, because it was a referendum on Obama and his failed policies. It cannot be spoken.
And thus it will be repeated.
Its not overly complicated
Southern whites have been traditional culture since antebellum era
Southern whites go to church more than anyone... besides maybe Sicilian grannies from the old country
Southern whites are born armed
Southern whites live with highest concentration of blacks in nation...they understand the ramificatiins of black rule or being a minority in black majority and that its not Cosby show
Southern whites are one half real women who love being girls....and mommas
There is nothing in today’s Democrat party that appeals to us anymore
Like Magnus said....Democrat party left us....
But given the GOP being CHICKENSHIT PANDERING FAGGOTS like they have been more often than not since 1866.....we are as discouraged as any decent Yankee
And no matter how much I try to explain this to NeoCon sissies judging us as always from their comfy restored prairie style bungalow in Edina.... they’ll never understand
The dems hitched their wagons to Obammy and his marxist socialist agenda lock stock and barrel.
They own liberalism, they shoved it down our throats as well they could. Now let em reap what they’ve sown.
The pendulum will ultimately swing back the other way and when it does, watch the libs squeel.
Morning Cincinatus’ Wife
” Democratic leaders say their party must become more aggressive advocates for the middle class in an effort to energize African-Americans and attract whites.”
There aren’t enough ‘rich’ to support the Gibsmedats, thus they have to screw the middle class. The RATS identity politics policy have boxed them into hole.
The party of leeches has a conundrum.