Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Chris Bowers — Actual photo of the moment Democrats lost the white working class vote



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Actual photo of the moment Democrats lost the white working class vote
Chris Bowers

The irony is that they joined the party of Lincoln.

3 comments:

Matt Franko said...

"Actual photo of the moment Republicans gained the barbarian vote."

Tom Hickey said...

That was before Nixon's Southern strategy went into gear led by folks like Kevin Phillips. At the time of LBJ, Southern whites hated Yankees, carpetbaggers, and especially the party of Lincoln more than Blacks. It took some doing to bring them into the GOP fold. Now The GOP has to deal with the consequences.

The Just Gatekeeper said...

I recently spoke to a former Dem member of Congress about this stuff...Dan is right, its hard to overstate how the combination of NAFTA/Brady bill screwed the Dems