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RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 09:09 AM Jan 2015

A Glimpse at the Voter Base that the GOP has Built in the South

This 2 minute video is pretty eye-opening. And somehow it manages to be both funny & incredibly sad...

A Glimpse at the Voter Base that the GOP has Built in the South
1/5/15

The American south can be a strange place, perhaps none quite as unique as Mississippi...

http://vimeo.com/115976503

http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/a-glimpse-at-the-voter-base-that-the-gop-has-built-in-the-south/
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A Glimpse at the Voter Base that the GOP has Built in the South (Original Post) RiverLover Jan 2015 OP
I actually feel sorry for those folks. riversedge Jan 2015 #1
Me too. nt RiverLover Jan 2015 #4
cherry picking caricature Man from Pickens Jan 2015 #2
Mississippi is the reddest of the red states. I think this "glimpse" shows who some of these RiverLover Jan 2015 #3
 

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)
2. cherry picking caricature
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 09:48 AM
Jan 2015

I could find people like that in South Carolina too, but they're not at all typical or representative. They're throwbacks to an era that is fading fast in the age of Internet everywhere. They do exist, but they are not the norm, not even close.

When I lived up north I could easily find people just as ignorant and provincial; but finding some crime-ridden ghetto and interviewing the dumbest people I could track down and presenting that as typical of northern states would be just as dishonest as this portrayal.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
3. Mississippi is the reddest of the red states. I think this "glimpse" shows who some of these
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 10:06 AM
Jan 2015

voters are.

But Democrats are trying to reach them~

Two Mississippi Democrats propose making Bible the state book
1/12/15
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/01/two_mississippi_democrats_prop.html

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