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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:43 PM Original message |
I don't give a damn who wins the nomination, but one meme that must be banished forever.. |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. You have a good point |
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KSinTX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. Make that *bigoted* middle-class white folks nt |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. To some extent, but what is more disconcerting is the notion that people of color... |
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KSinTX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Hadn't picked up on that slam. Sorry ... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. That's not new. There are people, and then there are *black* people.... |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 07:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. First of all, "Working Class" conjures up images of MALES. |
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featherman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. black white race race race race.... anything but what matters |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Demographics don't really bother me much as long as they are accurate. |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. has the meaning changed? |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. Damn straight! Anyone who doesn't recognize it for the "code speak" that it is, |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. Why? White folks have agreed on that as the acceptable codeword for "bigot"... |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
10. Middle Class White Folks AKA the Largest Voting Block in the Country |
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The Ghost (557 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
12. I think Howard Dean referred to them as |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
13. I think they should be called what they are: "conservative swing voters" |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. But they're not necessarily conservative |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
16. Classism is the new racism |
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goletian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
17. not middle class, but poor and uneducated. - nt |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-06-08 07:49 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I think either of those could be included in that, but not limited to that. |
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