And don't forget to include the right to keep and bear the weaponry  
necessary to protect one's castle and kin from those folks you've  
mentioned.  At least that was the big issue in flyover country.

Steve Bruns


On 24-Apr-12, at 2:12 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:

>> here's a question to keep the pen-l pot boiling: to what extent is  
>> the
>> punditocracy's common narrative true, i.e., that many white male
>> blue-collar workers in the US are "Reagan Democrats" who vote for the
>> GOP? if true, why did this happen?
>> -- 
>> Jim Devine
>
> Racism. It took the form of Welfare Queens, etc.
>
> In the last several years that's broaden into different territory as
> xenophobias and scapegoating toward Latino and Muslim-looking people.
>
> CG
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