"ENTERING THE DARK AGE OF THE GOP IN POWER" TOS TITLE

It's all politics... If you look at a map for Congress right now ..or how the nation actually voted in physical area in 2012? The Dems win by holding major city population centers. That is largely inner city folks, and to be perfectly blunt, racism running both directions can be a part of life in the inner city. Playing on that and keeping it going, in my opinion, has been as much a part of the business plan of professional activist or special interest groups as addressing real problems.

If they lost racism as a calling card to drop as it helped? They might lose some of the inner city votes, which again, is coming close to all they have left. It is enough, because the top couple dozen metro areas could easily elect the President by numbers alone if the Electoral College didn't force some acknowledgement of areas outside the cities. The numbers really add up...but still very narrow in demographic to who the progressive left calls a base. At least as recent voting has shown.

Evening, Wrabbit (may I drop the 2000? It makes you sound older than you are.).

I saw a clip recently featuring four black, Chicago activists. They said, basically, "Where has voting democrat got us? We're unemployed, poor, the police aren't protecting us, the Black Democratic mayors only seemed interested in nice homes and expensive cars, WTF?"

If that attitude starts to spread, the impact on the 2016 elections could be huge.

I wonder why the West Coast is so solidly liberal. Is it because there is so much money? Do they work on intangibles like movies and technology, which might influence their view of manufacturing? I don't know, but it seems that while the rich and the very poor can do well there, there seems to be a lot of flight from the state. Middle class abandoning the state?

There's a lot I don't know, but I think the politicians do, getting votes is their primary reason for existence.

Charles