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In reply to the discussion: Nearly two-thirds of white women in Alabama voted for accused child molester Roy Moore [View all]JimBeard
(293 posts)Most of the time you can not change a voters attitude but you can sell them something that they THINK they like or some other BUTTON issue.
I could never figure out why the poor white people voted against their own interest.
There was a huge anger at the grocery store checkout when food stamps were used. At the checkout line there was a mix of races and economic status and usually if there was a problem the working poor white folks would make comment on the food stamp class.
The majority whites were barely making it while other races were collecting food stamps where God and everyone could see them.
Usually it was at the end of the day when people were tired that I noticed the discontent.
You can't tell if it is food subsidies now because the cards are like credit cards.
I call it compression. I believe the discontent is extremely strong where one person gets assistance making $8 an hour and another one making $8.01 without assistance and spreads outward until middle class is reached.
There are other things but I just wanted to maybe give some type of reason for the split.
I forgot about politicans making the split larger like Reagan and his welfare queen story.