2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRohrabacher would "defund white trash".
If you just let people keep talking, eventually they will say exactly what they mean. This Republican is laying it out the way it really is. Everyone should know that when they strike at the poor, there will be a heavy white casualty list that are included in that 47%. But, there are way too many who think it only applies to minorities. How one gets into the 47%, their race, nationality, age, service to country, etc. is not relevant. So sad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/rohrabacher-white-trash_n_3733333.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
PDJane
(10,103 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)RandySF
(57,598 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)it's only when you go up the road to the larger house the political landscape changes. Reverse of what one imagine?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)he'd defund himself.
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)I see it as a symbol of the class system in the south, which I experienced growing up there. Upper class whites heaped contempt on lower class whites (white trash), who then heaped their contempt on the blacks (even worse names) and so on. *sigh* I wish this phrase would be ditched from the language.
It is one of the reasons that poorer whites are much more likely to be racist. No one wants to be the bottom of the social totem pole.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)It would think it would take a lot to get such a hillbilly like himself to lash out at his base like that.
Archae
(46,260 posts)This guy loved the Taliban, until 9-11.