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Questions for the board:
Is White Nationalism on the rise in America?
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No.
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Is this a direct result of the Civil Rights movement and the Quota and Affirmative Action laws that have been instituted in this country?
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No.
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How long before politicians begin courting White Nationalists as a voting block?
Thoughts/Discussions?
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Never - see the out and out rejection of Trent Lott due to his oh-so-subtly coded racial comments at Strom Thurmond's birthday for a prime example of why those days are loooooonnnnngggg gone. Took less than a few days for the Bush team to (rightly) have him pushed aside and replaced with Frist - because like I said, those days are over. I daresay the Republican Party is vastly different than it was even 15 or 20 years ago. Witness the utter ghast and astonishment from the
FreeRepublic community (!!!!!) when an
unabashed racist won the Republican primary for a Tennessee congressional seat last year.
Minorities are becoming a larger part of the American landscape, and everyone knows it - and the battle for their political allegiance has only just begun. The neo-cons (who some say have found a home in the Bush White House) never had much use for fostering racial antagonisms anyway; and many were fighting the battles of the Civil Rights Era on the frontline. Even some of the most conservative of conservative Republicans (Sam Brownback, for one) are lauded for their issue stances in regards to African Americans.
Want the 2nd coming of the New Deal? Want liberals running this country? Let a Republican politician make an appeal to the 'white nationalist' vote. You couldn't finish counting to 10 before every single, last Wall Street/major corporate dollar did an about-face and went right into the DNC's coffers (not that some, of course, aren't going there already) - but boy, oh boy, would you see every single moderate Republican (who Bill Kristol correctly calls the $$$ guys) head running for hills and into the arms of the nearest Democratic embrace, checkbook in hand.