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How to make a difference, how do we rural "White Folk" experience White Privileged [1]
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Date: 2023-08-10
Just got off the phone with my daughter. I want to give others a taste of the rural experience. She said all this without any prompt or questions to indicated how I see white privilege. I’m putting it in a quote box and leaving some details vague. It’s a summery of her words. This is her experience in running businesses in a southern rural community. I think she is currently a never Democrat voter.
All my encounters with rude people are older white people, they are entitled, yelling at my staff. I kick them out , I don’t need their business. They are not LGTBQ, minorities, young. The mean people are white people.
We white people are tired/exhausted of the anger and entitlement we are experiencing from other white people.
This is a huge political opportunity to step into the void and begin to pick up votes in Red America. We are tired and also what change.
However, if we Democrats can’t recognize our own biases about rural white America, the spirituality that exists and use language that offends rural white America, We will get nowhere.
Rural white America, in the past, often cast solid, reliable democrat vote in many areas of the country.
This excludes the Dixiecrat's of the south. Dixiecrat's were future reliable alt-right votes. There just wasn’t a party they could exploit as easily in the past. I’ve lived in Virginia for years, so I saw the transformation at the later stages. The Democratic party gradually learned to find majorities with out the Dixiecrats. We used to make a deal with the “Devil”.
Successful Virginia Democratic politicians are centrist for a reason. It works in southern states. They appeal to voters across the state and do not base campaigns in urban areas, relying on building up the margins. They may even pick up voters that are never Democrat. They listen to all votes in their state and want every vote they can earn.
That’s politics in parts of the south and maybe other parts of Red America.
Perhaps my daughter will finally become tired of the right. I can only hope.
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