White Men Rule

[Zorra]

75. Some white men apparently disagree, and seem to believe that they are an oppressed

people...


...so they legislate or attempt to legislate in order to to assert their control over women and women's rights and bodies...
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WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - While the 2010 midterm elections have been dissected in every imaginable way to reflect poorly on President Barack Obama, there is one startling reality that has been largely overlooked. According to national exit polls for House races, broken down by race and gender, the Republican blowout was a phenomenon only among White voters. Blacks, Latinos and “all other races” went Democratic.

“Specifically, 63 percent of White men voted Republican as did 58 percent of White women,” Richard Prince reported in his online column “Journal-isms.” “Eighty-five percent of Black men voted Democratic, as did 93 percent of Black women, 60 percent of Latino men, 68 percent of Latino women and 55 percent of ‘all other races.' ”

There is an historical precedent explaining why White voters in some of the most distressed areas of the country—those out of work and facing home foreclosures, for example—identified with and voted for wealthy White conservatives, some of whom spent millions of dollars of their own money to convince voters that they better represent the best interests of the poor.

Until 1968 when Republican Richard Nixon took power utilizing his “Southern Strategy,” Christian, segregationist, White Democrats—so-called “Dixiecrats”—ruled the South convincing White voters (who were the only eligible voters until the late 1960s) of six myths. “1. the federal government's a threat; 2. Federal courts don't understand the Constitution; 3. Taxes are bad; 4. Unions need to be eliminated; 5. You have a lousy health system; 6. But at least you're White,” this according to Craig Wilson of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_7427.shtml

In his fine book The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma, David Paul Kuhn took a hard look at the future of the Democratic party, and it's not good news. Since 1972, white men have voted by well over 60% for Republican or conservative candidates in every single presidential race. The only exceptions were Jimmy Carter, who got 48% of the white male vote, and Barack Obama, who got 41% of white men.

http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/the_elusive_white_male_voter.php

...but even though it is true that white men rule, and are the dominant group in our society, many of them really do get it, and they want to make it all as good as they can...