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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders' mass email yesterday: 'If I run' (full text) [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And the message that they are not the same is why he will not win Southern primaries.
Racism and Misogyny are rooted in economic oppression.
The entire history of African Americans here in the south is their economic explanation.
And that is why many of us are inherently suspicious of self titled progressives. Historically too many of them have been willing to leave exploited minorities out of progressive legislation. The most striking examples are segregated schools and even more the exclusion of African Americans from Social Security in the 30s. White Southerners supported progressive legislation until Johnson expanded the programs to people of color.
Many of us know it could happen again. Especially when all we heard about in the year after the election were poor left-behind whites. And we heard that from the left as well as the right.