Do you know any poor white people?

[Lyin' Steve]

All the trolls online who hate Sanders are making hay out of his statement in the debate "When you're white, you don't know what it's like to grow up in the ghetto, you don't know what it's like to be poor."  Everyone is making fun of him for this by saying that there are poor white people so they should know what it's like to be poor.  But to be honest, other than my mother who lived in a 400sqft apartment until she was 28 because she made just above minimum wage as a public-school teacher in the inner city, or my widowed great-aunt who lost her job as a librarian due to alzheimers and lives on social security but still goes to the library ever week to teach kids how to read, I don't know any poor white people.  I think Sanders is on to something here and I want to shut the trolls up.  Do you know any poor white people?

We all benefit from white privilege.  Racist KKK trolls online need to stop committing violence against Sanders' supporters by disagreeing with their deeply held beliefs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xiT6nkCp8o

[James Bond 007]

Everyone knows poor people of all races. It's not something to use in politics.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Have you ever heard of something called crystal meth?

[IceSpear]

Bernie just lost West Virginia tonight. This crucial swing voter was very offended.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm related to some. Accidentally voted no.

[James Bond 007]

I'm related to some. Accidentally voted no.

I like your picture.  What all does it entail?

[DINGO Joe]

Branch of my wife's family is country poor--meth, petty theft.  Occasionally one will seem on the verge of breaking out of the cycle, but so far....

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Bernie just lost West Virginia tonight. This crucial swing voter was very offended.

so your answer is "no" then.

[This account no longer in use.]

Yes, myself.

[Intell]

Uhh, that comment by Sanders was beyond ridiculous.

[IceSpear]

Bernie just lost West Virginia tonight. This crucial swing voter was very offended.

so your answer is "no" then.

? I must've missed the implication.

After consulting with my West Virginia focus group (pictures below), I've determined that they are unanimously switching from Bernie to prison inmate Keith Russell Judd. They would've considered De La Fuente but his name sounded far too "ethnic."

[Intell]

Oh God, I hate these comments and the poor white-hating done.

[rob in cal]

    Bernie hopefully realizes the historical demography in the US was such that up until the last few decades the US was about 87-89% white and obviously a significant amount of them were poor.  He does realize, I hope, that in the 1930's in the great era of unionization and the emergence of the CIO that vast majority of the workers were white. This is not Jamaica or Peru or Namibia or a place like that were you have had in the past or do today have a small white population that is more often than not wealthy and a vast poor population that is non-white.  If Bernie would enjoy some historical demographic and economic history discussion I'd love to help him out.  Come on Bernie, you can do better than this.

[IceSpear]

Oh God, I hate these comments and the poor white-hating done.

Yes, absolutely.  This is plain ignorance.  This is why Democrats have no hope of winning West Virginia.  This is why Matt Bevin is governor of Kentucky.  This is what is the matter with Kansas.  This is why George W. Bush won in 2000.   

This forum is hilarious. How many different groups of people are constantly bashed here? Yet like clockwork, the second anyone takes aim at the hicks, droves of people start hyperventilating about how mean, insensitive, and cruel you are. lol

As for your post, GOOD! I don't want WV/KY in the Democratic coalition. Democrats being angst ridden about those places voting Republican is about as silly as if Republicans were angst ridden about not being able to appeal to socialists in Vermont or far left hippies in San Francisco. Oh wait, that wouldn't happen, since they're not retarded. If anything, bashing those places helps fire up their base and improve where they actually need to.

[RFayette]

Oh God, I hate these comments and the poor white-hating done.

Yes, absolutely.  This is plain ignorance.  This is why Democrats have no hope of winning West Virginia.  This is why Matt Bevin is governor of Kentucky.  This is what is the matter with Kansas.  This is why George W. Bush won in 2000.   

The fact that someone calls themself a "progressive" would make fun of Appalachians the way people in this thread did is pretty amusing.  It goes to show how tribalistic much of our politics is.

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Oh God, I hate these comments and the poor white-hating done.

Yes, absolutely.  This is plain ignorance.  This is why Democrats have no hope of winning West Virginia.  This is why Matt Bevin is governor of Kentucky.  This is what is the matter with Kansas.  This is why George W. Bush won in 2000.   

The fact that someone calls themself a "progressive" would make fun of Appalachians the way people in this thread did is pretty amusing.  It goes to show how tribalistic much of our politics is.

I think Bernie should bring things in a more respectable direction. Doing better in Applalachia will help the Democrats in NC, VA, and PA. The other states are are unwinnable for a while, though.

[James Bond 007]

Oh God, I hate these comments and the poor white-hating done.

Yes, absolutely.  This is plain ignorance.  This is why Democrats have no hope of winning West Virginia.  This is why Matt Bevin is governor of Kentucky.  This is what is the matter with Kansas.  This is why George W. Bush won in 2000.   

The fact that someone calls themself a "progressive" would make fun of Appalachians the way people in this thread did is pretty amusing.  It goes to show how tribalistic much of our politics is.

Yes it's like the so called "tolerance" crowd who tolerates everything until someone disagrees with them. Democrats doing this and name calling should be ashamed.

[Lyin' Steve]

Oh God, I hate these comments and the poor white-hating done.

Yes, absolutely.  This is plain ignorance.  This is why Democrats have no hope of winning West Virginia.  This is why Matt Bevin is governor of Kentucky.  This is what is the matter with Kansas.  This is why George W. Bush won in 2000.   

The fact that someone calls themself a "progressive" would make fun of Appalachians the way people in this thread did is pretty amusing.  It goes to show how tribalistic much of our politics is.

Yes it's like the so called "tolerance" crowd who tolerates everything until someone disagrees with them. Democrats doing this and name calling should be ashamed.

I had to grow up around this.  NPR and MSNBC were the news 24/7.  Poor whites who voted Republican were "those stupid, stupid people", "the Republicans have lied to them so much that they vote against their own interests and don't even realize it", "there are just a lot of bigoted, backwards people in this world" and other such things.

[IceSpear]

I see this forum's oddly specific boner for poor white Appalachian "populist" men (but not really populist, just generic right wingers) and making them "see the light"/vote Democratic is alive and well. Some things never change I guess.

[James Bond 007]

I see this forum's oddly specific boner for poor white Appalachian "populist" men (but not really populist, just generic right wingers) and making them "see the light"/vote Democratic is alive and well. Some things never change I guess.

What do you mean?

[James Bond 007]

Oh God, I hate these comments and the poor white-hating done.

Yes, absolutely.  This is plain ignorance.  This is why Democrats have no hope of winning West Virginia.  This is why Matt Bevin is governor of Kentucky.  This is what is the matter with Kansas.  This is why George W. Bush won in 2000.   

The fact that someone calls themself a "progressive" would make fun of Appalachians the way people in this thread did is pretty amusing.  It goes to show how tribalistic much of our politics is.

Yes it's like the so called "tolerance" crowd who tolerates everything until someone disagrees with them. Democrats doing this and name calling should be ashamed.

I had to grow up around this.  NPR and MSNBC were the news 24/7.  Poor whites who voted Republican were "those stupid, stupid people", "the Republicans have lied to them so much that they vote against their own interests and don't even realize it", "there are just a lot of bigoted, backwards people in this world" and other such things.

I'm sorry to hear you had such a childhood.  May I ask how you saw the light and weren't scarred for life?  It sounds like you came around to realize rhetoric for what it is my good friend.

[Figueira]

He said that? I can see what he was getting at, but that was a really bad way of wording it.

Anyway, yes. I come from an area that's full of poor white people. IceSpear, your comments in this thread are disgusting.

[IceSpear]

I see this forum's oddly specific boner for poor white Appalachian "populist" men (but not really populist, just generic right wingers) and making them "see the light"/vote Democratic is alive and well. Some things never change I guess.

What do you mean?

I see you're new here. Many of the lefties/Democrats on this forum have some odd fascination with poor white Appalachian men, and are desperate to get them to vote Democratic by any means necessary. It's quite an odd phenomenon. As I said earlier, it would be like the GOP constantly pining for the days when Vermont was a red state. Granted, we do have a few of those here, but not anywhere near the scale of the former. Times have changed and coalitions have changed, get over it already. The GOP already has.

Also, per Atlas leftie rules, poor white Appalachian men are the only people immune from criticism and should be treated with the utmost respect. But you can bash blacks all you want for voting for the she-devil, and are free to hold positions viewing gays and illegal immigrants as less than human. That's just respectful political disagreement after all.

[Intell]

I guess I have two poor-hating democrats now, NY ass hat Millennial, Ice #Hillary for Life Spear, both of them are Hillary supporters who would have thunk.

And if you are a leftist, and berate poor voters, for whatever reason you should honestly just stick to your liberal hypocrisy. The comments made by Ice Spear is disgusting, and things like this, to which working class voters believe that the democratic party  thinks of them is, is why TRUMP is crushing the GOP field due to blue-collar votes.

[James Bond 007]

I see this forum's oddly specific boner for poor white Appalachian "populist" men (but not really populist, just generic right wingers) and making them "see the light"/vote Democratic is alive and well. Some things never change I guess.

What do you mean?

I see you're new here. Many of the lefties/Democrats on this forum have some odd fascination with poor white Appalachian men, and are desperate to get them to vote Democratic by any means necessary. It's quite an odd phenomenon. As I said earlier, it would be like the GOP constantly pining for the days when Vermont was a red state. Granted, we do have a few of those here, but not anywhere near the scale of the former. Times have changed and coalitions have changed, get over it already. The GOP already has.

Also, per Atlas leftie rules, poor white Appalachian men are the only people immune from criticism and should be treated with the utmost respect. But you can bash blacks all you want for voting for the she-devil, and are free to hold positions viewing gays and illegal immigrants as less than human. That's just respectful political disagreement after all.

You mean we have to tolerate everyone except those who don't see their ways and if someone doesn't see their ways, then they should be humiliated.  There's more to voting than whoever is going to "do a better job" for the economy too.  I think their stance on guns for the past 25 years has really hurt them and that's broken a connection they once had with the Appalachian region.  Unions are also much less significant.  Parties and issues have certainly changed since then.