Times in the South are changing!
Dec 7, 2014 12:46:24 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2014 12:46:24 GMT -6
Mary Landrieu has lost in Louisiana. They had a runoff yesterday and the outcome wasn't even close.
What I guess I hadn't followed closely enough to have noticed was the overall shift for balance of power across the Deep South. It is interesting and catches my attention all the more because this semester's history course for me has been dedicated to the period of America from Reconstruction to the present day. The control of the south by "Southern White Democrats" has simply been a fact of life since nearly the end of the Civil War. Apparently, that stereotype in leadership is now completely in the past.
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However the politics themselves work out, this is still a point in history that will be noted and likely notable to whatever comes next. I'm not suggesting it marks a good or bad point in history, but it does mark a point others will note.
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Now I am amused by the variety of things the losers blame for their loss. Usually Obama. It never occurs to them that politics HAVE been local and people on the local level have gotten tired of the same 'ol BS. Of course, they will get the same general meal with a different flavor now, but hope and change is sometimes enough ....in both directions, right?
Then again? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and loser is just...well? A loser.
Mary Landrieu: If I lose, blame racist, sexist voters in Louisiana
^^ She really said that, and now would have anything to be curious about for final outcome? ....Oh and she is White. Who is she calling racist, toward whom, precisely?
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Oh.... Of course. I see. Yes. She figures she loses office due to other whites being racist toward African Americans?
Hey, it's old and insulting to hear from minority politicians, quite frankly. It's just ignorance on proud display to hear from someone like her, IMO. She is white and so was her Republican challenger. Race...where?
NBC Baton Rouge: Landrieu ‘Dealing With a PR Nightmare’ After Calling Voters Racist and Sexist
I believe stupidity can create self fulfilling prophecy without even having to consider the larger national politics of it. Sometimes stupid just removes itself by self selection.
Republican Bill Cassidy’s resounding victory is the ninth Senate seat picked up by the GOP in this year’s elections, three more than the party needed to take control of the chamber. With nearly all the ballots counted, Cassidy led Landrieu by 14 points, 57 percent to 43 percent.
What I guess I hadn't followed closely enough to have noticed was the overall shift for balance of power across the Deep South. It is interesting and catches my attention all the more because this semester's history course for me has been dedicated to the period of America from Reconstruction to the present day. The control of the south by "Southern White Democrats" has simply been a fact of life since nearly the end of the Civil War. Apparently, that stereotype in leadership is now completely in the past.
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), the outgoing chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, noted that Cassidy will be one of a dozen new Republican senators to take office next month and added that, with his win, “Republicans now control every Senate seat, governor’s mansion and legislative body from the Texas high plains to the Atlantic coast of the Carolinas.”
However the politics themselves work out, this is still a point in history that will be noted and likely notable to whatever comes next. I'm not suggesting it marks a good or bad point in history, but it does mark a point others will note.
The same night that the last white Southern Democrat serving in the House lost, South Carolina elected Tim Scott, an African American Republican, to the Senate in South Carolina. Scott becomes the first African American to be elected in the South and the first to start a full term since Reconstruction.
Now I am amused by the variety of things the losers blame for their loss. Usually Obama. It never occurs to them that politics HAVE been local and people on the local level have gotten tired of the same 'ol BS. Of course, they will get the same general meal with a different flavor now, but hope and change is sometimes enough ....in both directions, right?
Then again? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and loser is just...well? A loser.
Mary Landrieu: If I lose, blame racist, sexist voters in Louisiana
^^ She really said that, and now would have anything to be curious about for final outcome? ....Oh and she is White. Who is she calling racist, toward whom, precisely?
Embattled Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu has picked out her excuse if she loses her seat to her Republican challenger: “Conservative” voters in her state don’t much care for women and African-Americans.
Oh.... Of course. I see. Yes. She figures she loses office due to other whites being racist toward African Americans?
Hey, it's old and insulting to hear from minority politicians, quite frankly. It's just ignorance on proud display to hear from someone like her, IMO. She is white and so was her Republican challenger. Race...where?
NBC Baton Rouge: Landrieu ‘Dealing With a PR Nightmare’ After Calling Voters Racist and Sexist
I believe stupidity can create self fulfilling prophecy without even having to consider the larger national politics of it. Sometimes stupid just removes itself by self selection.
