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canis_lupus (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 01:25 PM Original message |
Why don't those hillbillies like Obama? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. "may be that Appalachia, for all its legend and lore, is not that different politically" |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. Wow - the lengths white folks go to in order to avoid calling other white folks racist is amazing. |
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Window (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. LOL! |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Thank you! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Our blockade on that word is strong. |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Truer words are rarely spoken. nt |
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FredScuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. *ahem* "blue-collar" if you please |
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DangerousRhythm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
50. Or as Tweety said on the day of the Pennsylvania primary... |
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NatBurner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. right? |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. lol n/t |
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VotesForWomen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
38. but when blacks vote 90% for obama, that's *not* racist? save it. |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:42 PM Response to Reply #38 |
54. Do you have video of black people saying they will never vote for a white man? |
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knixphan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:47 PM Response to Reply #54 |
61. Thank you, Raineyb |
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Labors of Hercules (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #54 |
64. Never heard it said better. |
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Ashy Larry (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:53 PM Response to Reply #38 |
65. There is a difference. |
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Liberal Gramma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 06:37 PM Response to Reply #38 |
71. No, it's not |
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ampad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-21-08 09:42 AM Response to Reply #38 |
79. No you save it |
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Hieronymus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
39. I know someone who embraced the idea that Obama wasn't observant . |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
41. Amazing also the lengths some people will go to to avoid actually understanding something. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. It's about time you guys got organized and finally got in on this! |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
52. Really! |
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knixphan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
59. LOL! |
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2rth2pwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
63. Pretty amazing the short memories that people have of Obama insulting |
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aaronbees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 08:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
74. Absolutely |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
8. This lost me when it put Alvin York and Jessica Lynch in the same sentence. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Alvin York Was a Psychopath |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Alvin York wasn't a psychopath, he was wild as a youth |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. The very fact that you call them "hillbillies" explains the answer |
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NatBurner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. the author of the article called them hillbillies |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. Interesting article |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
12. This will change......it's just a matter of time. |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
15. they are nativists |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. imagine you were talking about black people with all those "they's" |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:53 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. "They" is a pronoun, not a statement. OP was the one who presented the group as homogenous. |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. except my they meant appalachian people |
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haymakeragain (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. Coal. |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. um, between the two, Obama is much more favorable to coal |
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haymakeragain (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:01 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Clean coal, not status quo coal. |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
21. Thanks to the respondents here for helping me to decide.... |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. It's fairly obvious you wrote this rant before reading any of the replies here. |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Nope. You're WRONG. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. There is no "bigotry and bullying" in this thread. There is no mockery of Appalachians, either. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. You're welcome! Better luck hiding the elephant in another party! Tootles! |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. And you're one of the primary leaders of this particular gang |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:01 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. (beam) |
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FredScuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. BURN! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:14 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. I should put together a Greatest Moments In Race-Traitor History. |
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msallied (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. LMAO! You are quickly becoming one of my favorites here. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #35 |
47. Yep, you really got a lot out of that whiteness theory grad seminar. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:30 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. Ewww. lol! Who needs a seminar for what you can see right in front of your eyes? |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:38 PM Response to Reply #51 |
57. Then I wish you would direct that penetrating gaze onto the class system sometime. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 06:31 PM Response to Reply #57 |
68. Aww sheesh - "it's not race, it's class"? That's soooo 80s. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 06:35 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. And either/or thinking? That's so, I dunno, "low information." |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 06:40 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. Awww... Now you're just making shit up. White folks are most DEFINITELY not all alike... |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-21-08 03:37 PM Response to Reply #72 |
82. That is a Very Revealing Map |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. The thing about those hillbillies ... |
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FredScuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
36. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah..... |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #21 |
42. Well said. n-t |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:50 PM Response to Reply #21 |
45. Oh, I sooooo agree with you! |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #21 |
46. I wish I could recommend this post. |
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Township75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:41 PM Response to Reply #46 |
53. I wish I could recommend your post |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:05 PM Response to Reply #53 |
56. Thanks! |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 09:57 PM Response to Reply #56 |
75. There's only one problem with your premise |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-21-08 03:50 AM Response to Reply #75 |
76. Bingo. Racial divisiveness has been a huge impediment to class-based organizing n/t |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-21-08 09:31 AM Response to Reply #75 |
78. Sorry but your analysis is faulty: rich and upper middle class secular liberals are almost as racist |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-21-08 03:09 PM Response to Reply #78 |
80. I never said rich and upper middle class people weren't racist |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-21-08 09:26 AM Response to Reply #46 |
77. EXACTLY. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
31. Obviously, they were very tolerable as far as Bill's sexual transgressions... |
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Auntie Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #31 |
66. What the hell does Bill's transgressions have to do with Hillary? |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
32. It should be noted that he didn't really campaign there... |
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Auntie Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 06:04 PM Response to Reply #32 |
67. That's has always been his excuse. |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
40. The nominee has to campaign there. |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
44. When Dems get creamed in rural America, they lose the GE. I fully expect a repeat of 2004 |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
48. You, sir, are a Hairy Ainus ... |
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MarjorieG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
49. For Democrats, and some other states, it's all about the Clinton brand. |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
55. I guess they just don't identify with him. Same reason 9 out of 10 black voters prefer Obama |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
58. He said "Hairy Ainus". n/t |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
60. Hill-Bill-ies ... sort of fitting, eh? |
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susankh4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
62. K&R |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
70. Why do racist, backward, cliquish, rural white folks from Jim Crow country oppose Obama? |
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superkia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-20-08 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
73. I would guess most of them are uneducated and poor. They get... |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-21-08 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
81. I am a "hillbilly".. |
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