buritobr
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« on: November 11, 2016, 07:39:08 AM » |
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In the 1990s, many years after the Civil Rights Act, the cultural wars and the hippies, there were a lot of democratic governors in southern states, a lot of democratic senators from the southern states, some democratic representative elected in white southern districts, and Hillary's husband won Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia.
Nowadays, rural white southern counties are >80% Republican. Obama 2012 and Hillary 2016 performed worse than McGovern 1972 in many of these counties. Democratic governors and senators in the south are very rare. There are representatives from the south only in non-white districts.
The democrats are dead not only in the white south, but also in all the rural white counties far from the coasts. In the past, there were lots of blue (Leip's red) counties in Minnesota. Now, the democrats need a huge margin in the twin cities in order to win the state.
What happened?
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