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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders' Southern Strategy
I agreed wholeheartedly with the senator when he said the Democratic Party has abandoned the South.
Ann Porter
Global warming, its going to be disastrous, one man at the event explained.
Is climate change an issue? Is that not talked about here in Louisiana? Sanders said. Its not talked about, several people responded.
Were all gonna be under water, one visibly concerned woman said. No one can afford their flood insurance.
Oil and gas owns this state, another woman shouted indignantly.
Fracking, another chimed in as though the word alone was self-explanatory.
The house party was the smallest of four events on the senators schedule in a two day swing through the state, which attracted Sanderss usual sheaf of favorable media coverage. He made a direct appeal to black voters at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference gala in Baton Rouge on Saturday according to MSNBC, and whipped up a thunderous crowd of 4,500 in Kenners Pontchartrain Center according to the Times Picayune. (When I mentioned to Reed that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal only managed to draw 1,000 people to the same venue for his presidential announcement, she quipped and he probably had to pay them to get them there.)
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-29/bernie-sanders-southern-strategy
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Bernie Sanders' Southern Strategy (Original Post)
J_J_
Jul 2015
OP
Oh I don't know. Maybe it's time to rehabilitate the reputation of the south.
Old Union Guy
Jul 2015
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. The connotations of the phrase 'southern strategy'
are extremely distasteful. I wish Bloomberg hadn't 'gone there' when referring to an entirely different type of appeal.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)2. Oh I don't know. Maybe it's time to rehabilitate the reputation of the south.
There's still too much racism, but is any region of the country especially bad that way these days?
meow2u3
(24,775 posts)3. Maybe we should call it "Southern renewal strategy"
That would connote lifting up the South instead of tearing it down.
artislife
(9,497 posts)4. I like that...nt