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GulfCoast66

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31. I hesitate to even discuss this issue because it is a parent you're more studied that I

Mon Apr 24, 2017, 09:48 PM

Apr 2017

I mainly have my personal experience of being raised in the south by Democrats who eventually turned into Republicans. Plus a little bit of reading.

My family had no problems with Social security, medicare, 40 hour work week, price supports for crops, the G.I. Bill, low-cost college loans and all the other federal programs. And they were all loyal democratic party voters.

That all changed when these benefits were extended to people of color. And I have seen this pattern repeated throughout the south.

It troubles me we are even having this conversation, because I have seen what is at the heart of it. You cannot separate racial issues from economic issues because racism has its roots in economic oppression.

Have a very nice evening and thank you for the conversation.

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