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In reply to the discussion: We don't have a white voting problem. We have a southern, rural, white voting problem. [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)As I said below, they want to be Republican Lite, not appeal to a bunch of hillbillies, hippies and minorities in rural areas.
Look at many of the people here on DU. They make fun of poor Southern Whites ( most of whom don't vote because they are just surviving or they have lost the right to vote or they don't believe either party cares for them ) and make no effort to understand them.
Dems want to be mainstream to a large degree, to appeal to middle class and upper middle class suburban and urban voters. They do not want to waste their time with poor rural whites. Not classy. Not sophisticated. Ignore those poor trailer dwellers and rural Hispanics and cheesy back-to-the-landers....they just bring down our "cool" image, dontcha know.
It's a lot more fun to mock or scapegoat than to reach out.