Dixie
H/T Steve Sailer
At VDARE, Steve Sailer has drawn my attention to this Slate article:
“Tesler’s mentor, UCLA psychologist David Sears, introduced the idea that it did not take policies with overtly racial content—like the Civil Rights Act or affirmative action—for racial attitudes to spill over into political views. In 1987, Sears, along with Jack Citrin and Rick Kosterman, published a chapter in the book Blacks in Southern Politics arguing that the mere fact of Jesse Jackson’s presidential candidacy three years earlier (the first competitive one waged by an African-American) had accelerated the polarization of southern politics. Using National Election Study survey data, Sears demonstrated that Southern whites who harbored racial animus (as measured by their evaluations of blacks and views on welfare and school busing) thought less of the Democratic Party after Jackson ran for president. Race was still shaping their views of the contest between two white men, Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale.”
That’s a great point.
If Jesse Jackson had become president in 1984 or Al Sharpton had become president in 2004, the White backlash would have been that much greater. In hindsight, “painting the White House black” was a great idea. Too bad it couldn’t happen twenty years ago.
If MLK had only lived to be president, he would have discredited the Civil Rights Movement in a sex scandal meltdown. Does anyone regret John McCain failing to win the presidency?
Sorry I didn’t explain the acronym.
Obama 2012. WIB,FN
The five words. “Worse is better, for now.”
“Vote the GREATER of TWO Evils: Obama for President 2012!”
I should have noted I’m more realistic than that: I’m actually working in the Romney campaign.
Mosin,
You should work in the Romney campaign, and attend all of your town’s Republican committee meetings. Doing local politics can help your business or help you find good/better jobs, and give you insight into the sausage of how politics work. But if you are already doing that, good for you.
My old hometown is controlled by 3 local families. These families have all the town jobs, and they own businesses such as paving companies and the town of course gives them all the contracts. They’ve been investigated by the feds before, but the feds are not able to break them u. Nice white families by the way; well, you might not say “nice” in that way, but they are definitely savvy corrupticrats. You want your local petit corrupticrats to favor the indigenous White people as much as possible. Corruption can be a tool of racial preservation.
“Does anyone regret John McCain failing to win the presidency?” – He’d have actually been effective at getting amnesty through, thank god.
Kievsky, I’ve been already doing that for years now, and pushing hard (actively) for Romney (but only after he receives the nomination formally) is simply commonsense pragmatic realism, since he really is by far the lesser of the TWO evils. Also, I know what you mean about local corruption and conservatism being often connected, again the lesser evil pragmatic choice situation!