Comments on: Podcast: Demise of Southern White Democrats http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2012/10/25/podcast-demise-of-southern-white-democrats/ Independence & Identity! Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Amy http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2012/10/25/podcast-demise-of-southern-white-democrats/comment-page-1/#comment-21073 Amy Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:09:39 +0000 http://southernnationalist.com/blog/?p=26250#comment-21073 CNN.com ran an interesting article today about the presidential election and race that kind of goes along with what y’all discussed in this podcast. The had a pretty descent analysis of voting patterns amongst whites, blacks, and hispanics in the 2008 election and how they are expected to vote this year.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/politics/obama-40-percent/index.html

They also had a nifty tool they call a racial bloc voting calculator, so that you can decide what percentage of each race you think will vote for each candidate and try to predict the winner. I didn’t have time for that (not to mention I don’t care), but it was interesting because it had the 2008 vote breakdown by race and by state.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/10/politics/voting-bloc-calculator/index.html

As for the Upper South, we still have a handful of white Democrats in the US Congress. Tennesee’s 9th District (Memphis) will likely always remain a Democratic seat. It currently belongs to Rep. Steve Cohen, a Jew who you may have heard of a couple of years ago when he actually tried to join the Congressional Black Caucus, claiming that the majority of his constituents were black so it would be in their best interest if he could caucus with the black legislators. He was denied.

The representative from the 5th District (Nashville) is white too, but I know nothing about him.

As for the state legislature, many of the Democrats simply decided not to run again this year after the Republicans took control and redrew the districts to their own advantage. That wasn’t necessarily bad. My county has finally been restored to its own district, after having been gerrymandered by the Democrats a decade ago to the benefit of our then-House Speaker. (They cut our county in half, then reached into a neighboring county and grabbed part of an urban area to ensure enough black votes to keep him in office. Since they fixed that, he’s decided not to run for re-election.)

A final note about Republicans in the South….I follow the Tipton County (TN) Republican Party on FB, since this is where I live and the area is heavily Republican. Yesterday, they posted a picture of Mia Love, Republican candidate for the 4th District from UTAH, with a quote from her and a link to her website. I’m not sure why they felt the need to share this with the residents of Tipton County, TENNESSEE, since it is doubtful that any of us will be voting in UTAH, but I have a feeling it had something to do with the fact that Mia Love is black. They saw an opportunity to look inclusive and they jumped on it. They’re not fooling anybody, though.

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