To those insisting that we "reach out to" and "understand" Trump supporters, let me break it down

[TheBlackAdder]

126. What is it's source? Such as Southern Paternalism, Evangelicalism, Cloistered or Remote Tribalism?

There are a whole lot of factors that promote racism.


This is an oversimplified detail of Southern Paternalism.

Back in the antebellum South, slaveholders were abhorded and seen as paraihas in their comminuty. Thing did not really change until the 1820s-1840s when the Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian ministers from the North were offered money and property from the slaveholders to promote them as virtuous. Within 10 years, the concept of Southern Paternalism was formed, where slaveholders were seen as offering Christianity to people who would never be exposed to it. The pastors held two services, one to sell the white community on the benefits of slavery, and how slaveholders were doing God's work. There was another service for the slaves, telling them that they need to be good servants. That while life is hard, they will receive eternal salvation in heaven upon their death.

So, it took 20 years, or roughly one generation to shift southerners from hating and shunning slaveholders to fully embracing them as upstanding citizens of the community.

So, where there is a will, there is a way. Most people are racist and nationalists because they live in cloistered and relatively ignorant hamlets, where non-whites are few. They listen to others and reinfoce their views of ignorance.

The young kids, with social media, are now harnessing a lot of this to promote the me too and anti-gun agenda which was unforeseen a couple of years ago. In NJ, governor's races less than two decades ago were still selling LGBTQ as a fear issue to drive conservatives to the polls, Now, it doesn't have the same effect and is almost abandoned as a tactic here.

You need to know the origins of where these racist beliefs are rooted to counter their influences.