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MindPilot

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45. I am a working-class white guy.

Mon May 2, 2016, 09:01 PM

May 2016

At 61, I've made it to what would probably be lower middle class.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have encountered exactly three people in my day to day life who think Trump is any more than a joke. But that is just my perspective.

I don't pretend to have any answers, but let me just say that I changed my registration from D to NPP when the Democrats voted for...no, that wasn't it...the folks, was it the folks? Maybe it was that time they swept impeachment off the table. Naw, it was more what they didn't do. They didn't stand up for the poor when the repubs did stand up for the rich They didn't go to bat for the homeowner when the repubs got behind the mortgage industry. Yeah, a whole lotta shit the democrats didn't do.

Now they are paying that piper.

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Working class whites - when did we lose them? [View all] runaway hero May 2016 OP

This may be entertaining.. Fla_Democrat May 2016 #1

Working class white MEN Glitterati May 2016 #2

White women voted for McCain and Romney. cigsandcoffee May 2016 #61

We elected a black guy as potus. JoePhilly May 2016 #3

Yup. n/t pnwmom May 2016 #73

Goes back further than that... Human101948 May 2016 #78

For no small number of the ones who defected to Trump griffi94 May 2016 #4

Propaganda works UCmeNdc May 2016 #70

Propaganda does work griffi94 May 2016 #72

The repugs learned to play the race card way back with the Reagan Democrats. brush May 2016 #5

Reagan Democrats. KamaAina May 2016 #7

Earlier than that even gollygee May 2016 #39

Yes. brush May 2016 #51

This message was self-deleted by its author KamaAina May 2016 #6

The right wing acquired the traditional media. snot May 2016 #8

But people say the media is Liberal. runaway hero May 2016 #13

And you believe this why? Hekate May 2016 #24

What makes you think it isn't Liberal runaway hero May 2016 #49

Get a brain, morans. tabasco May 2016 #91

someone left their bridge unattended dlwickham May 2016 #60

Exactly WHY should they be Democrats? mikehiggins May 2016 #9

Bingo. Well said. Populist_Prole May 2016 #10

but sanders isn't popular with that group. it's trump that is popular with them JI7 May 2016 #15

It's because of the anger zalinda May 2016 #20

Do you think black and hispanic people can't be working class ? JI7 May 2016 #21

Oh course they can, but the premise was 'white men Trump supporters' zalinda May 2016 #65

I think you have got it exactly right. potone May 2016 #53

^^^^^^^^^^ this! ^^^^^^^^^^ mooseprime May 2016 #27

You pretty much nailed it. Wellstone ruled May 2016 #37

The phenomenon pre-dates what you're suggesting brush May 2016 #48

I saw it happen in the 80's. Wall street, not main street, in Appalachia. X_Digger May 2016 #54

you forgot the other part of that hfojvt May 2016 #93

Two Ronnies view on this problem. Personally I blame anyone who plays to the ugly racist bigotry pkdu May 2016 #11

1968. Warren Stupidity May 2016 #12

civil rights JI7 May 2016 #14

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Peacetrain May 2016 #17

+1 uponit7771 May 2016 #29

Beat me to it. Starry Messenger May 2016 #74

Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action...for some. Deuce May 2016 #16

Google this . . . markpkessinger May 2016 #18

Stop villifying them may be a good place to start. Throd May 2016 #19

Right but runaway hero May 2016 #22

Who is "everyone"? Hekate May 2016 #25

Many people on DU runaway hero May 2016 #33

Have you read the thread? Here, let me show you. Scootaloo May 2016 #40

they feel vilified over POC getting rights JI7 May 2016 #30

The GOP has used the rw churches, media etc to point the jwirr May 2016 #47

So no other demo in America is vilified? tia uponit7771 May 2016 #31

these people want their jobs back runaway hero May 2016 #34

All demos don't want their jobs back? tia... I"m still tryin to figure out why they're the only demo uponit7771 May 2016 #35

because I believe runaway hero May 2016 #41

OK, don't see that as a reason why they're the ONLY ones in America who are vilified in some way uponit7771 May 2016 #44

Come on runaway hero May 2016 #50

They're even less apt to hire a middle aged PoC then!! If it comes to losing jobs cause of uponit7771 May 2016 #59

Of course it hurts poc too runaway hero May 2016 #89

They aren't. But just look at the responses in this thread. Throd May 2016 #43

I don't see their concerns being so different than any other demo, I'm still trying to figure out wh uponit7771 May 2016 #46

Too many republicans, particularly Trump and Cruz supporters, do "pine for 1955". pampango May 2016 #81

Google "Southern Strategy" NT Adrahil May 2016 #23

Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and Rush Limbaugh Brother Buzz May 2016 #26

It's a process that's still going on when it comes to the push for college for all, gun control, Brickbat May 2016 #28

After they had to start sharing power with non white men? tia uponit7771 May 2016 #32

not always about that. runaway hero May 2016 #36

Nixon's "Southern Strategy" gollygee May 2016 #38

Hard Hats for Nixon. CK_John May 2016 #42

I am a working-class white guy. MindPilot May 2016 #45

This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles May 2016 #52

When they were persuaded to believe their tax money went to thugs bigwillq May 2016 #55

If Wall Street crooks and WMD liars were in jail I Lint Head May 2016 #56

I'm somewhere between working class and upper middle class... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #57

1968 Civil Rights Act onward. La Lioness Priyanka May 2016 #58

1968 Spider Jerusalem May 2016 #62

Civil Rights Act, guns, God, gays, NAFTA doc03 May 2016 #63

LBJ told us why GulfCoast66 May 2016 #64

Whitey is becoming lancer78 May 2016 #66

Your bigotry is showing in the use of the slur "whitey." Ex Lurker May 2016 #68

Yes lancer78 May 2016 #69

White voters responded to Johnsons Great Society by electing Nixon forjusticethunders May 2016 #92

We have some very powerful myths in this country... ljm2002 May 2016 #67

BINGO!!...the hypocrisy of the 'evolved' Democratic Party...the talk versus the action... islandmkl May 2016 #85

1968-ish? Iggo May 2016 #71

We don't need them... ileus May 2016 #75

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #83

like where? runaway hero May 2016 #88

The responses to this thread are all you need to know AgerolanAmerican May 2016 #76

Not just regarded as stupid and racist, but their problems aren't real The2ndWheel May 2016 #82

I don't know when we lost them, but I can tell you why we still do Lee-Lee May 2016 #77

Corporate people like Clinton Duckhunter935 May 2016 #79

when they started watching foxnews and listening to rush limbaugh who all blamed their problems beachbum bob May 2016 #80

The Dems didn't abandon the white working class forjusticethunders May 2016 #84

seems like you have it backwards...but i admit i had a little trouble tracking your argument... islandmkl May 2016 #87

You do realize forjusticethunders May 2016 #90

you skipped Carter...and your history ignores the control of Congress that the Party enjoyed... islandmkl May 2016 #94

I'm a working class white woman (retired firefighter/paramedic) we can do it May 2016 #86

Whole bunch of reasons whatthehey May 2016 #95

Urban Rioting, Anti-War Movement, Student Protests and Nixon's appeal to the silent majority Sen. Walter Sobchak May 2016 #96

I'm not really sure what happened... ChaoticSilly May 2016 #97

1980 and that election nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #98