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Showing Original Post only (View all)Pres Jimmy Carter: Why a generation of white men have solidly embraced the GOP [View all]
https://thegrio.com/2014/04/11/jimmy-carter-race-motivates-white-men-to-vote-republican/And in a no holds barred interview with Salon, the Man from Plains spoke plainly about why a generation of white men have solidly embraced the Republican party in multiple elections.
Its race. Thats been prevalent in the South . Ever since Nixon ran and ever since Johnson didnt campaign in the deep South, the Republicans have solidified their hold there, he said.
Carter also said that GOP attacks on programs like food stamps have a coded appeal for the wealthy.
Those kind of things just exalt the higher class, which is the whites, and they draw a subtle, but very effective racial line throughout the South, Carter said.
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Its race. Thats been prevalent in the South . Ever since Nixon ran and ever since Johnson didnt campaign in the deep South, the Republicans have solidified their hold there, he said.
Carter also said that GOP attacks on programs like food stamps have a coded appeal for the wealthy.
Those kind of things just exalt the higher class, which is the whites, and they draw a subtle, but very effective racial line throughout the South, Carter said.
Click here to read more.
Ahem - so as I've been saying . . . well - just sayin'.
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JustAnotherGen
Apr 2014
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It IS about race when you have Republicans telling white people to vote for them "or else".
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2014
#16
Because Carter ran an incredibly vicious racist campaign against Carl Sanders in the GA gov primary?
Tom Ripley
Apr 2014
#15
I love Carter now, but you are right. He started out acting much like today's Repugs.
Hoyt
Apr 2014
#26
Jimmy Carter is a God fearing man and very faithful Christian. He helps with the poor
Thinkingabout
Apr 2014
#10
Excellent. Followed all the links. Jimmy is telling it like it is, like PBO today:
freshwest
Apr 2014
#23
Oh, wow! Thanks for the tip-of-the-hat, freshwest! I'm also very fond of President Carter =) nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Apr 2014
#36
It is scary. The poor and lower class whites that you wrote about may believe that the
DhhD
Apr 2014
#31
The wealthy / GOP elite do everything they can to reinforce that stereotype...
devils chaplain
Apr 2014
#44
Carter not afraid to share and show his wisdom and blow up Right Wing heads.
joanbarnes
Apr 2014
#41