The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(04-17-2020, 03:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-17-2020, 09:53 AM)David Horn Wrote: So your counter argument is: things were worse in the distant past, so bad things aren't important today?  And yes, it was the Southern Democrats who made Jim Crow work -- until LBJ.  After that it was the GOP in the South and North, not that party politics has a bearing here.  It was a culture-wide phenomenon, and a lot of people got hurt, just not white people.  It will take along time to rebalance that error, but it's not surprising at all that the people still affected by it are getting antsy.

So saying that there are poor whites doesn't cut it.  Of course there are, but it's the extent of the damage that's the issue.  If 10% of whites are below the poverty line, while it's 25% of the black community, that's a societal hurt that 's been inflicted, not just laziness or bad attitude.  FWIW, I'm good with lifting up everyone.  There will be a lot of need soon, when the COVID-19 Depression ends, and the damage is devastating.

The whites have more people living below the poverty line than the blacks do right now. My point is that there are no more slaves or southern confederates that exist today. We still have some slaves but they're associated with illegal/criminal l activity referred to a illegal human trafficking that's directly associated with illegal immigration. I don't live in the past. You can bring it up and call us racist or meanies for disagreeing, not feeling guilty and not supporting slave retribution these days.

Blacks still have more people living in poverty.

The US Census declared that in 2014 14.8% of the general population lived in poverty:[82]

10.1% of all white non-Hispanic persons
12.0% of all Asian persons
23.6% of all Hispanic persons (of any race)
26.2% of all African American persons
28.3% of Native Americans / Alaska Natives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in.../ethnicity

If whites are getting poorer too, that is the direct result of the Republican policies they have supported. They largely supported them for social-issue reasons, for their religion and their resentment over giving welfare to black people with their taxes. Resentment over immigration has also been stoked recently by Trump. The result has been big breaks for big business, resulting in stagnant income for most of the population, white and people of color alike, while prices have skyrocketed.

The southern confederates still exist, and have become more racist recently. Whites in the South vote for these Republican policies in 80 to 90% margins.  Most of the people today are pretty much wage slaves living paycheck to paycheck, while rich people (and I'm pretty well off myself now) get more and more of the pie, thanks to the low taxes and low wages which your Republican Party has instituted over 40 years.