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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)left phone numbers, offered to volunteer, the works. Even followed up with phone calls. We ended up getting signs ourselves and putting them up independently.
Most of the people involved in this area are older women with big hair and older men, more conservative appearing, nice people, but seemingly afraid to open the doors to "others."
I'm not going to force my way in, sorry. And neither are most rural people. If you don't make an attempt to reach out, you lose the opportunity.
The party needs to stop trying to fool people in the South into thinking they're conservatives just to get one or two Republicans to move over. They need to admit who they are and what they stand for, and grow a goddamned backbone...NOT TO BE TAKEN as a slur at you, just the party.