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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTheir America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.
New York TimesLike the former president, they have been unhappy with the changes unfolding around them. Crime and sprawl from Houston, the big city next door, have been spilling over into their once bucolic towns. (Build a wall, Mr. Nehls likes to say, and make Houston pay.) The county in recent years has become one of the nations most diverse, where the former white majority has fallen to just 30 percent of the population.
Don Demel, a 61-year-old salesman who turned out last month to pick up a signed copy of a book by Mr. Nehls about the supposedly stolen election, said his parents had raised him colorblind. But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend did not like certain people coming here, he said. Its race. They are old-school.
A shrinking white share of the population is a hallmark of the congressional districts held by the House Republicans who voted to challenge Mr. Trumps defeat, a New York Times analysis found a pattern political scientists say shows how white fear of losing status shaped the movement to keep him in power.
hatrack
(59,592 posts).
Ray Bruns
(4,111 posts)too stupid to realize that being poor is whats killing them.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)The sentence begins, Im not racist, but .
aeromanKC
(3,327 posts)I only hope I live long enough to see the process through completion. I would love to see not only a woman President, but also a LBTQ, Muslim and Athiest among others gain more seats in congress and reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I won't though. Should get 2 checked off my list anyway for the White house if my health holds on with any luck.
(I am an older middle age white guy)
Walleye
(31,045 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)to fully appreciate EXACTLY what they are saying.
FakeNoose
(32,745 posts)randr
(12,414 posts)America is a participation event.
Wounded Bear
(58,704 posts)propagated by nostalgic TV shows and faulty memories of the "good old days."
I remember a counter to the 'good old days' meme (that wasn't a meme back then). These are the good old days we'll look back on in 20 years.
Ocelot II
(115,835 posts)So the media once again go back to Bo & Cletus' Diner and Bait Shop in Bumfuck, Texas and listen to a bunch of racist a-holes whine about the perceived loss of their White male Christian privilege. Does anybody ever ask these doofuses why, after four years of their great and glorious God-King Trump they're no better off than they were; The Wall was never built; and those people keep invading their towns?
Ray Bruns
(4,111 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,136 posts)He made it acceptable for them to openly proclaim their hate for everyone who is not a straight rightwing white Christian.
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)He also gave tacit approval of them getting violent about it.
That's all the mouth-breathing lowlifes need to be happy with him.