About Those Rural White Voters.Uh huh

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Bourbon

In Yo Face!
[h=1][/h]Told you …

Interesting how nobody ever goes and studies rural BLACK folk..it’s like they don’t exist.

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off

Hint: it’s not about the economy.


Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.​

So I decided to speak with Wuthnow about what he learned and whether fears about America’s “moral decline” are really just a cover for much deeper fears about race and demographic changes.​

In the book, you argue that the anger we’re seeing in rural America is less about economic concerns and more about the perception that Washington is threatening the way of life in small towns. How, specifically, is Washington doing this?

Robert Wuthnow
I’m not sure that Washington is doing anything to harm these communities. To be honest, a lot of it is just scapegoating. And that’s why you see more xenophobia and racism in these communities. There’s a sense that things are going badly, and the impulse is to blame “others.”


https://3chicspolitico.com/2018/03/20/tuesday-open-thread-about-those-rural-white-voters-uh-huh/

Lol! Hint. It ain't the economy. :rolleyes:
 
SmarterthanYou said:
bullshit liberal trash article. just more negative stereotyping from a pissed off progressive that the popular vote doesn't count
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I read the link with an open mind, and noticed there were assertions made with absolutely no corroborating data or evidence, or any description of the methodology used. Just assertions that rural white Americans are a bunch of racist, bigoted homophobes.
 
Bourbon said:
[h=1][/h]Told you …

Interesting how nobody ever goes and studies rural BLACK folk..it’s like they don’t exist.

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off

Hint: it’s not about the economy.


Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.​

So I decided to speak with Wuthnow about what he learned and whether fears about America’s “moral decline” are really just a cover for much deeper fears about race and demographic changes.​

In the book, you argue that the anger we’re seeing in rural America is less about economic concerns and more about the perception that Washington is threatening the way of life in small towns. How, specifically, is Washington doing this?

Robert Wuthnow
I’m not sure that Washington is doing anything to harm these communities. To be honest, a lot of it is just scapegoating. And that’s why you see more xenophobia and racism in these communities. There’s a sense that things are going badly, and the impulse is to blame “others.”


https://3chicspolitico.com/2018/03/20/tuesday-open-thread-about-those-rural-white-voters-uh-huh/

Lol! Hint. It ain't the economy. :rolleyes:
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ahh the racism charge...... hint, you can not vote for the democrat and still not be a racist.
 
Bourbon said:
[h=1][/h]Told you …

Interesting how nobody ever goes and studies rural BLACK folk..it’s like they don’t exist.

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off

Hint: it’s not about the economy.


Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.​

So I decided to speak with Wuthnow about what he learned and whether fears about America’s “moral decline” are really just a cover for much deeper fears about race and demographic changes.​

In the book, you argue that the anger we’re seeing in rural America is less about economic concerns and more about the perception that Washington is threatening the way of life in small towns. How, specifically, is Washington doing this?

Robert Wuthnow
I’m not sure that Washington is doing anything to harm these communities. To be honest, a lot of it is just scapegoating. And that’s why you see more xenophobia and racism in these communities. There’s a sense that things are going badly, and the impulse is to blame “others.”


https://3chicspolitico.com/2018/03/20/tuesday-open-thread-about-those-rural-white-voters-uh-huh/

Lol! Hint. It ain't the economy. :rolleyes:
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Sean Illing

Fair enough. The title of your book,*The Left Behind, rubbed me the wrong way. It seems to me that many of these people haven’t been left behind; they’ve chosen not to keep up. But the sense of victimization appears to overwhelm everything else.
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Interesting, I wonder if that same mindset applies to people in our inner cities...
 
Bourbon said:
[h=1][/h]Told you …

Interesting how nobody ever goes and studies rural BLACK folk..it’s like they don’t exist.

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off

Hint: it’s not about the economy.


Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.​

So I decided to speak with Wuthnow about what he learned and whether fears about America’s “moral decline” are really just a cover for much deeper fears about race and demographic changes.​

In the book, you argue that the anger we’re seeing in rural America is less about economic concerns and more about the perception that Washington is threatening the way of life in small towns. How, specifically, is Washington doing this?

Robert Wuthnow
I’m not sure that Washington is doing anything to harm these communities. To be honest, a lot of it is just scapegoating. And that’s why you see more xenophobia and racism in these communities. There’s a sense that things are going badly, and the impulse is to blame “others.”


https://3chicspolitico.com/2018/03/20/tuesday-open-thread-about-those-rural-white-voters-uh-huh/

Lol! Hint. It ain't the economy. :rolleyes:
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Not a credible source.
 
Sirthinksalot said:
I read the link with an open mind, and noticed there were assertions made with absolutely no corroborating data or evidence, or any description of the methodology used. Just assertions that rural white Americans are a bunch of racist, bigoted homophobes.
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That's why it's not a credible source.
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
ahh the racism charge...... hint, you can not vote for the democrat and still not be a racist.
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This isn't about any particular person being racist. This is about these things increasing racial tensions. Mexican Americans, African Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, are all witness to it. Just the same are Judaism, and Muslim religious Americans.
 
Nordberg said:
He spent 8 years interviewing small town people. That gives him some cache. Perhaps not proof, but worth reading and thinking about.
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An academic using a worthless degree isn't worth a dime nor is anything gained from what was done.
 
Jade Dragon said:
This isn't about any particular person being racist. This is about these things increasing racial tensions. Mexican Americans, African Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, are all witness to it. Just the same are Judaism, and Muslim religious Americans.
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Mexican is a race? Middle Eastern is a race? Muslim is a race?

The only one that is a race is African American and it's the politically correct term for black. They consider anyone not willing to cater to them and give them what they want under the false premise that slavery is why they're behind all other groups in a lot of areas is someone they consider racist.
 
Jade Dragon said:
This isn't about any particular person being racist. This is about these things increasing racial tensions. Mexican Americans, African Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, are all witness to it. Just the same are Judaism, and Muslim religious Americans.
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the only ones stirring up tensions are those in the big cities. Having been born and raised in midwest rural area, racism wasn't an issue at all.
 
"I'm here because our republican values are number one, standing up for local white identity, our identity is under threat, number two, the free market, and number three, killing Jews." Sean Patrick Nielsen, Charlottesville [Video on Washpo]

http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/

The Austin bomber is another example.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/austin-bombing-suspect-mark-anthony-conditt


"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." LBJ


Edit: I think one reason there is not much study of black rural communities is because of large assumptions about prejudice and racism. Very few places do blacks control the political and social infrastructure making them as Ellison wrote invisible. I want to examine this more though.
 
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midcan5 said:
"I'm here because our republican values are number one, standing up for local white identity, our identity is under threat, number two, the free market, and number three, killing Jews." Sean Patrick Nielsen, Charlottesville [Video on Washpo]

http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/

The Austin bomber is another example.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/austin-bombing-suspect-mark-anthony-conditt


"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." LBJ


Edit: I think one reason there is not much study of black rural communities is because of large assumptions about prejudice and racism. Very few places do blacks control the political and social infrastructure making them as Ellison wrote invisible. I want to examine this more though.
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When did Austin become rural?
 
Sirthinksalot said:
I read the link with an open mind, and noticed there were assertions made with absolutely no corroborating data or evidence, or any description of the methodology used. Just assertions that rural white Americans are a bunch of racist, bigoted homophobes.
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yeah they just vote that way
 
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