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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
During this election you saw a lot of rust belters and unionized workers switch from (D) to (R) to support Trump - I'm sure there are some that don't want handouts like welfare or EI and some that do. They voted D for most of their life and it got them to this point, so they were frustrated.
For some, I think it is more along the lines of "the money could be better spend elsewhere", like that roads project or trying to re-open my factory. I'm sure lots of people are sympathetic to refugees, but they want their government to focus on America first when Americans are hurting. I think there is also some nationalist undertones that resent them for fleeing as well and that Americans didn't run away from their civil war (again, we can debate the legitimacy of this, but that is a common feeling).
Does that make them a bunch of racists for thinking that way? I don't think so. I just think continuing to label the entire group of them as such is only going to be counter productive.
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There is probably 35% or so of the republican base that votes along racial lines. It's basically beyond dispute at this point, republican strategists will admit as much in private, and some of them publicly. Political scientists and historians are also pretty much in lock step behind this as well. Do we think David Duke votes democrat? No, he publicly endorses the republican nominee.
The last third party candidate in presidential politics to get electoral support was running on a policy platform of national segregation.
I can't take someone seriously that can't see what's right in front of their eyes.