“I just thought maybe it would help race relations in our town, which is not very good right now,” said Mary Leckie, a 73-year-old white retiree who voted for Scott.
I wrote a little bit here recently about the “white working class,” “race relations,” and the Left in Little Rock.
I read your linked comments, which were interesting and insightful. Thanks for doing the research on this important topic.
I live in a rural area that was dominated by logging and paper mills, now mostly closed down. Other than a handful of liberals–like me!–virtually all the people who vote Dem and who helped our town and county give Obama a margin are ex-union folks and their spouses.
60 fucking years. Goddamn white people suck, and I’m a white man, I know it’s not black folks making it up, it’s true. Yeah not all of us, but even my wife who votes D has deep beliefs about black folks. She treats them pretty fairly, but still expects them to disappoint her without acknowledging that they way a lot if not most white folks treat them has a lot to do with it. Example, she’d be one of the white folks that assumed a black person cutting a lock off a bike was stealing it, but a white person doing the same just lost the key.
I appreciate your comment. Further evidence, even anecdotal, would be more than welcome!
AWESOME Little Rock!