A Mississippi Post-Mortem: State Lacks Massive Metro Area, Suburbs Didn’t Flip
Shorter Version
Still to many racist goobers , State not ready for 21st century
That about sums it up. But still, the Dixie-GOP had to spend money on this race, and will have to continue to do so if Democrats run decent candidates and turn out to vote.
The bigger question is this. Why do people still vote Republican? Anywhere, but especially in the poorest state in the union. Is it only god, guns and gays?
*state not ready for 20th century.
Fixed it for ya.
A Mississippi Post-Mortem: State Lacks Massive Metro Area, Suburbs Didn’t Flip
That’s a polite way of putting thing, a better postmortem would be: “Mississippi remains the most racist and backwards state in the country, no measurable advance in the last 50 years”
…State Lacks Massive Metro Area…
i.e.: The people in Mississippi aren’t smart enough to organize a city.
With the 19th in question also
I live in Central Florida and my area normally goes 60-65% Republican
The general rule around here is
My GrandPappy voted Republican
My Pappy Voted Republican
and Ahm Votin’ Republican
Also
White
Although it’s not really true. At least in the south (the mid west is another story) whites voted Democrat almost exclusively until the civil rights movement and Nixon’s “southern strategy” made them switch in the late 60s. Noted racists like Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond & George McGovern all started as democrats. Even in the early 2000 there were still a few dixicrats like GA’s Zell MIller that whites were willing to vote for. (About the last thing that Miller did in Congress was to denounce the Democratic Party for not supporting Bush) .
YABUT
60’s = Grandpa
80’s = Pa
2000’s Current
Although you could substitute Racist for Republican as they vote that way regardless of Party
Racist Democrat or Independent? We’re good
I’m “only” 52, and I have a grandfather who was born in 1876, and a great grandfather who was in the VA Militia during the Civil War.
Think you meant George Wallace, not McGovern
Espy’s biggest challenge was simply that Mississippi doesn’t have a metro area comparable to Atlanta or Nashville, Tennessee, or Charlotte, North Carolina — growing population centers where white voters are considerably more likely to support Democrats than their counterparts in small towns.
And they don’t have such a metro area because the state ranks 50th or close to it in almost any quality-of-life category and is dedicated (“from 1947 to 2007, the state sent just four senators to Washington”) to staying there.
in a word…yes…
I thinks there’s another word that gets them motivated, and it begins with “n”…