On the Oj Times There was a BlackPower Seeking, Now is White But With Guns
During the OJ times in States in the bigger states like California there was a black middle class. But this middle class had gained financial power through working for the government from Bus drivers to Street sweepers. But they got paid well and retired with good benefits. Now we have a white middle class very pissed about power-sharing with the blacks like in the times we elected a black President. This was something that poisoned these people and they wanted the opposite of Pres. Obama. Who would be just the opposite? A lawbreaker, enriching himself, smelling bad, with a hair piece, instead of helping any down class from Hispanics, blacks, or even gays? That is right if you said "The Donald" Someone who has never felt constricted by regulations, laws, or how he conducted himself against minorities. He hates them, and so do these pissed-off whites. He never paid the minorities he hired and got tax breaks on them. So he got paid by the government
and never paid fully for their work. Their result was to go to court against a magnate, at least in the books.
These white pissed off over this what?? Ask them, They are not into law obeying or having any minority being helped but love employing for under any less than licensed whites would cost. They think they were not helped so they have no responsibility to help anyone unless that helps them also.. These are less than in high school or usually had not finished high school and just work in whatever lawful or not to get where they think they are. They never figured out that when you have a government that helps their kids go to college or allows laws that do not aloud the government to abuse them as small business owners. They think they made it happen without thinking that we all live within the constraint of a land and laws that are supposed to protect everyone and a way for a NY group of citizens can get together and make changes in the law. For reasons that only they know for sure they think that a very smelly(confirmed) old guy got elected by cheating and won against the votes of most Americans but manipulating the college votes which he tried to do again in the last elections but this time people in government both.
Republicans and Democrats but mainly republicans would decided to not break the law that had them get this President again. They thought they owed something to the country that afford them to be in government and make decisions that with The Donald, they would not break. They wanted the old system back in which whoever gets the most votes and can get the college votes based on population and total of votes should win. This has been the system for over 250 years. They thought it a good system. On that system, you had both Dems and GOP from good governments to lousy ones that got our men in uniform killed for no reason or avoided a war alltogether.
Adam Gonzalez, writer for Adamfoxie
Rural white voters have long enjoyed outsize power in American politics. They have inflated voting power in the U.S. Senate , the U.S. House and the Electoral College .
Although there is no uniform definition of “rural,” and even federal agencies cannot agree on a single standard, roughly 20% of Americans live in rural communities , according to the Census Bureau’s definition. And three-quarters of them – or approximately 15% of the U.S. population – are white.
Since the rise of Jacksonian democracy and the expansion of the vote to all white men in the late 1820s, however, the support of rural white people has been vital to the governing power of almost every major party coalition. Which is why my co-author Paul Waldman and I describe rural white people as America’s “essential minority” in our book “ White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy .”
As a political scientist , I’ve written or co-written five books addressing issues of racial politics at some level of government or part of the country. My latest, “White Rural Rage,” seeks to understand the complex intersections of race, place and opinion and the implications they hold for our political system.
The unfortunate fact is that polls suggest many rural white people’s commitment to the American political system is eroding. Even when they are not members of militant organizations, rural white people, as a group, now pose four interconnected threats to the fate of the United States’ pluralist, constitutional democracy.
Although these do not apply to all rural white people, nor exclusively to them in general, when compared with other Americans, rural white people:
– Express the most racist, least inclusive, most xenophobic, most anti-LGBTQ+ and most anti-immigrant sentiments.
– Subscribe at the highest rates to conspiracy theories about QAnon, the 2020 presidential election, Barack Obama’s citizenship and COVID-19 vaccines.
– Support a variety of antidemocratic and unconstitutional positions and exhibit strong attachments to white nationalist and white Christian nationalist movements inimical to secular, constitutional governance.
– Are most likely to justify, if not call for, force or violence as acceptable alternatives to deliberative, peaceful democracy.
Let’s examine a few data points.
Xenophobia
In a Pew Research Center poll conducted in 2018, 46% of white rural Americans said it is important to live in a diverse community. That’s a lower proportion than urban and suburban dwellers and even nonwhite rural residents.
And in rural areas, fewer than half the people said white people have advantages Black people do not , approve of the legalization of same-sex marriage, and say immigrants make American society stronger.
In addition, Cornell researchers found that rural whites reported feeling less comfortable with gay and lesbian people than urban whites do. And 49% of rural LGBTQ+ people between the ages of 10 and 24 called their own towns “unaccepting” of LGBTQ+ people – nearly twice the rate of suburban and urban LGBTQ+ young people who said the same about their communities.
Conspiracism
Polls in 2020 and 2021 indicated that QAnon supporters are 1.5 times more likely to live in rural areas than urban ones, and 49% of rural residents – 10 points higher than the national average – believe a “deep state” undermines Trump .
Rural residents are also more likely than urban and suburban residents to believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump , according to 2021 polling by the Public Religion Research Institute.
And people who live in rural areas are also less confident as a whole than those who live in urban areas that votes will be counted accurately and fairly in their state or across the country, according to a 2022 poll from the Bipartisan Policy Center.
In addition, by our analysis, of the 139 U.S. House members who voted to reject the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election just hours after a violent mob of Trump supporters rampaged through the Capitol, 103 – 74% – represented either “purely rural” or “rural/suburban” districts, as categorized by Bloomberg’s CityLab project .
Antidemocratic beliefs
A scholarly analysis of multiyear data from the American National Election Studies project finds that rural citizens are “ much more likely (than urban residents) to favor restrictions on the press” and to say it would be “helpful if the president could unilaterally work” without regard to Congress or the courts.
In addition, more than half of rural residents surveyed by the Public Religion Research Institute said being a Christian is important to “being truly American” – 10 percentage points more than in surburban or urban areas.
This is one of several signals that rural residents are disproportionately likely to support white Christian nationalism , an ideology that reaches beyond Christian ideas of faith and morality and into government. Its followers want the United States to base its laws on Christian values rather than maintain the centuries-old separation of church and state the founders saw as fundamental to a secular democracy.
Justification of violence
Rural residents are more likely than urban or suburban residents to say the political situation in the country is heading to a point where violence may be necessary to preserve the nation, according to polls from the Public Religion Research Institute in 2021 and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics in 2022.
Of the estimated 21 million Americans who in late 2021 said Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win was “illegitimate,” according to the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, 30% lived in rural areas . And 27% of Americans who say Trump should be returned to office even if “by force” are rural residents. Those are minority views, but both proportions are significantly higher than the rural proportion of the overall population.
With the 2024 election fast approaching, the views of rural white people are once again of vital importance because they and the members of Congress who represent them disproportionately believe the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump by Joe Biden. A Pew Research Center study found 71% of rural white voters voted for Trump in 2020 , so their preference in November will be key to who returns to the White House for a second term.
Thomas F. Schaller is Professor of Political Science at University of Maryland, Baltimore County .
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