Do you know any poor white people?

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Yes, and this kind of elitism is why Democrats can't win in places like IL-18. The school district I attended was 98% white, 60% of the kids were from single-parent homes, and more than half were from homes below the poverty line. Of the 40% who were not from single-parent homes, many were raised by grandparents.

The town where I grew up was also 99% white and had a per-capita income lower than that of Englewood, the poorest neighborhood in all of Chicago. Yet elected Dems in the state don't care about anyone or anything outside of Chicago.

Several people I attended high school with (I graduated in 2008) are in prison for drug offenses (meth). One got a 10-year sentence. Only about half went to college, and few of those graduated. In a district of 900 students, there was a time when they were expelling a student every month.


But Dems making comments like Bernie did last night and appeasing SJWs means they will never win there (and probably won't even crack 40% most of the time). Those people are sick of hearing about their white privilege while they struggle to put food on the table and clothes on their kids' backs. You ought to be proud of the fact that they work hard to make ends meet and don't vote for more of other people's money or whine about being oppressed.

You should know, though, that it is identity politics and social justice rhetoric that pushes away people in poor rural areas, and therefore, it is probably this rhetoric that is keeping Democrats from the House majority.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Sanders shouldn't have said this. But having represented the whitest state in the nation, he didn't mean it.

No way he would get the benefit of the doubt if he were a Republican.