I remember whites being poor, and I was definitely one of them..
I assume you really grew up poor, perhaps even lived in the South when there were still black and white sharecroppers.
If you did, you should know that poor southern whites before the Civil Right Movement if they voted at all overwhelmingly voted Democratic. Those white southern politicians they elected, like the Dixiecrat voters too, were mostly staunch upholders of Jim Crow apartheid.
Were those whites (and their fathers who supported New Deal policies) also “Demon-crats” and “Demon-cratzies”? Why did the Democratic Party only change to one worthy of being
demonized when blacks were finally allowed to vote and even run their own candidates in it?
Honestly I don’t usually respond at length to people who go around
demonizing half our nation just because it votes Democratic, or maybe lives in big cities, or for whatever reason. We are not talking only about professional politicians here, or lawyers and judges with personal interests at stake, but of ordinary voters too. John Lewis was a sharecropper‘s son himself. He wasn’t a partisan politician when he rode those “freedom buses” and met MLK. He and MLK worked with Republicans as well as Democrats, religious folks and even socialists.
I never demonize Republicans just because they are usually conservative, or oppose abortion, or support foreign military adventures, or live in rural areas. Of course I — like John Lewis — don’t see Trump as anything like a traditional Lincoln Republican — but that’s another whole question.
To me, your using “Demon-crat” language is insulting and shows a lack of respect — especially in the context of this discussion — for the overwhelming majority of poor southern African-Americans who after the Civil Rights Movement gradually became the core of the southern Democratic Party. It seems to me it was only then that poor white southerners began to flee that party to join the Republicans.