What happens to the Republican Party if poor whites stop voting GOP?

[deanrd]

White Appalachia poor

Republicans on the USMB go on endlessly about poor blacks and poor Hispanics. They never, ever bring up the staggering number of poor whites. Especially those living in Appalachia. These people are under siege. Many of their problems are the same problems Republicans point to poor black or poor Hispanic communities with scorn. Crime, out of wedlock births. In fact, infant mortality has risen, and people are dying younger.
The idea of white privilege in these communities has simply gone away because of their rural location.
More likely, they will just stop voting. Then they run the risk of a lack of representation.

As long as Republicans can trick them with religion and guns, they will still keep voting Republican. But will that eventually no longer work? Just like drugs in the inner city, the Appalachian area is being swept up in addiction. When you are an addict, you think less and less of religion and guns.

The Health 202: Appalachian death from drug overdoses far outpace nation’s

America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

Republicans are ignoring their base. They got lucky in the perfect storm of the last election. Hillary won by three million and another 7 million voted other candidates. That's over 10 million that voted against Trump. Yet he won. I suspect there will be a much more united front next time.

 

[airplanemechanic]

If these poor whites voted for Trump, it's because they became poor whites while under Obama and when Hillary proudly touts that she'll continue Obama's "legacy" they obviously would like their lives to change so they voted for Trump.

 

[Tank]

But they don't commit crime like the blacks and hispanics

 

[antifa]

toothless teabaggees

 

[Tank]

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[deanrd]

toothless teabaggees

Republicans figured out what to cut.

Taxes for corporations.

 

[JGalt]

Why wouldn't they vote for Republicans when they have Democrats to thank for their poverty?

 

[deanrd]

But they don't commit crime like the blacks and hispanics

Wrong. Crime always goes up with a wave of drug addiction. The problem here is that it happens out in rural areas. Much less reporting. But with drug addiction and poverty comes crime. Always.

 

[deanrd]

Why wouldn't they vote for Republicans when they have Democrats to thank for their poverty?

Yea, Democrats caused poverty in Appalachia. That's just nonsense.

Republicans aren't doing anything to help the poor anywhere in the entire country.

What will the children of these people do without education? Republicans cut education.

 

[Tank]

But they don't commit crime like the blacks and hispanics

Wrong. Crime always goes up with a wave of drug addiction. The problem here is that it happens out in rural areas. Much less reporting. But with drug addiction and poverty comes crime. Always.

Many people believe that crime is a product of poverty and lack of “advantages.” However, the District of Columbia, which enjoys the highest average annual salaries and is second only to Alaska in personal income per capita, leads the nation in just about every category of crime including murder, robbery, aggravated assault, and vehicle theft. D.C. also has the country’s strictest gun control, highest police costs per capita, highest ration of police and correctional of ficers per citizen, and highest rate of incarceration. Its permanent population is over 80 % Black. West Virginia, which has the nation’s lowest crime rate, suffers from chronic poverty and has the highest unemployment in the U.S. It also has the fewest police per capita. West Virginia is over 96 % White.

 

[deanrd]

But they don't commit crime like the blacks and hispanics

Wrong. Crime always goes up with a wave of drug addiction. The problem here is that it happens out in rural areas. Much less reporting. But with drug addiction and poverty comes crime. Always.

Many people believe that crime is a product of poverty and lack of “advantages.” However, the District of Columbia, which enjoys the highest average annual salaries and is second only to Alaska in personal income per capita, leads the nation in just about every category of crime including murder, robbery, aggravated assault, and vehicle theft. D.C. also has the country’s strictest gun control, highest police costs per capita, highest ration of police and correctional of ficers per citizen, and highest rate of incarceration. Its permanent population is over 80 % Black. West Virginia, which has the nation’s lowest crime rate, suffers from chronic poverty and has the highest unemployment in the U.S. It also has the fewest police per capita. West Virginia is over 96 % White.

And yet, you are talking about much fewer people than the millions of poor whites that live across the 13 states that are part of Appalachia. Don't you care about them?

Apparently not.

 

[airplanemechanic]

What do you want to do with poor whites? How do you think the gov't can solve the problem other than creating programs that help businesses keep and invest more of their own money to build their companies and put these people to work?

It's not the gov'ts job to "help the poor." They need to help themselves, black or white. If the poor fail to help themselves then they become leeches and just keep voting for whoever gives them the most handouts.

You'd be surprised when you cut off the handouts how many people manage to find jobs. Just ask Clinton, he reformed welfare.

 

[Political Junky]

White Appalachia poor

Republicans on the USMB go on endlessly about poor blacks and poor Hispanics. They never, ever bring up the staggering number of poor whites. Especially those living in Appalachia. These people are under siege. Many of their problems are the same problems Republicans point to poor black or poor Hispanic communities with scorn. Crime, out of wedlock births. In fact, infant mortality has risen, and people are dying younger.
The idea of white privilege in these communities has simply gone away because of their rural location.
More likely, they will just stop voting. Then they run the risk of a lack of representation.

As long as Republicans can trick them with religion and guns, they will still keep voting Republican. But will that eventually no longer work? Just like drugs in the inner city, the Appalachian area is being swept up in addiction. When you are an addict, you think less and less of religion and guns.

The Health 202: Appalachian death from drug overdoses far outpace nation’s

America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

Republicans are ignoring their base. They got lucky in the perfect storm of the last election. Hillary won by three million and another 7 million voted other candidates. That's over 10 million that voted against Trump. Yet he won. I suspect there will be a much more united front next time.

Truly, Trump's base.

 

[fncceo]

Hillary won by three million and another 7 million voted other candidates. That's over 10 million that voted against Trump.

Do they teach math where you're from?

 

[reconmark]

But they don't commit crime like the blacks and hispanics

Any other stupid statements that I need to debunk from you???...

Who’s behind the rise in crime? Could be Trump’s constituency: older whites
Here’s the racial-demographic data behind these increases: In 2015, murder arrests in California rose sharply among whites 30 and older (up 16%) but fell among people younger than 30 of all races (down 5%), including young people of color (also down 5%).

Violent crime, which includes murder, rape, robbery and assault, rose 4% among older whites but decreased by 2% among those under age 30, with younger African, Latino and Asian Americans showing the biggest drop (down 8%). Trends in violence rates among older Californians of color lay in between (up 3%).

A similar pattern prevailed for drug arrests. Though major reforms in drug laws have brought down arrests for all Californians, older whites showed the least decline in drug arrest rates of any demographic (down 6%, compared with a 12% decline for younger people, including a 15% decline for young people of color). Again, older nonwhites were in between (down 11%).

imprisonment rates for older whites have not yet caught up with those of younger people of color, the race/age gap has narrowed astonishingly.

even with falling crime and recent reforms that reduced California’s prison population — older whites are the only group that has shown increased levels of imprisonment, while rates for young people of color have plummeted.

In 2015, for the first time, as many whites 30 and older as younger people of color were sent to prison. These trends are also found nationally, where older whites have shown major increases in state and federal imprisonment over the last 15 years while younger ages of all races — and people of color of all ages — have shown declines.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Wow why do the Democrats hate poor people so much?

 

[theHawk]

White Appalachia poor

Republicans on the USMB go on endlessly about poor blacks and poor Hispanics. They never, ever bring up the staggering number of poor whites. Especially those living in Appalachia. These people are under siege. Many of their problems are the same problems Republicans point to poor black or poor Hispanic communities with scorn. Crime, out of wedlock births. In fact, infant mortality has risen, and people are dying younger.
The idea of white privilege in these communities has simply gone away because of their rural location.
More likely, they will just stop voting. Then they run the risk of a lack of representation.

As long as Republicans can trick them with religion and guns, they will still keep voting Republican. But will that eventually no longer work? Just like drugs in the inner city, the Appalachian area is being swept up in addiction. When you are an addict, you think less and less of religion and guns.

The Health 202: Appalachian death from drug overdoses far outpace nation’s

America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

Republicans are ignoring their base. They got lucky in the perfect storm of the last election. Hillary won by three million and another 7 million voted other candidates. That's over 10 million that voted against Trump. Yet he won. I suspect there will be a much more united front next time.

Maybe because Obama didn't help them? In fact he probably shipped a lot of their jobs over to China.

 

[WillMunny]

You liberals have spewed so much dehumanizing filth and hatred at poor whites you've guaranteed they'll vote GOP for all eternity. Why would you expect poor whites to vote for liberal hatemongers after the way you people have looked down on them, especially under Obama?

And Appalachian trailer parks have a FRACTION of the crime rate of a black neighborhood in any big city, so you're simply lying.

 

[Baron]

White Appalachia poor

Republicans on the USMB go on endlessly about poor blacks and poor Hispanics. They never, ever bring up the staggering number of poor whites. Especially those living in Appalachia. These people are under siege. Many of their problems are the same problems Republicans point to poor black or poor Hispanic communities with scorn. Crime, out of wedlock births. In fact, infant mortality has risen, and people are dying younger.
The idea of white privilege in these communities has simply gone away because of their rural location.
More likely, they will just stop voting. Then they run the risk of a lack of representation.

As long as Republicans can trick them with religion and guns, they will still keep voting Republican. But will that eventually no longer work? Just like drugs in the inner city, the Appalachian area is being swept up in addiction. When you are an addict, you think less and less of religion and guns.

The Health 202: Appalachian death from drug overdoses far outpace nation’s

America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

Republicans are ignoring their base. They got lucky in the perfect storm of the last election. Hillary won by three million and another 7 million voted other candidates. That's over 10 million that voted against Trump. Yet he won. I suspect there will be a much more united front next time.

Democrats stole their working places and sent to chinks.

 

[westwall]

White Appalachia poor

Republicans on the USMB go on endlessly about poor blacks and poor Hispanics. They never, ever bring up the staggering number of poor whites. Especially those living in Appalachia. These people are under siege. Many of their problems are the same problems Republicans point to poor black or poor Hispanic communities with scorn. Crime, out of wedlock births. In fact, infant mortality has risen, and people are dying younger.
The idea of white privilege in these communities has simply gone away because of their rural location.
More likely, they will just stop voting. Then they run the risk of a lack of representation.

As long as Republicans can trick them with religion and guns, they will still keep voting Republican. But will that eventually no longer work? Just like drugs in the inner city, the Appalachian area is being swept up in addiction. When you are an addict, you think less and less of religion and guns.

The Health 202: Appalachian death from drug overdoses far outpace nation’s

America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

Republicans are ignoring their base. They got lucky in the perfect storm of the last election. Hillary won by three million and another 7 million voted other candidates. That's over 10 million that voted against Trump. Yet he won. I suspect there will be a much more united front next time.

Oh lookey here, derpy showing what a bigot he is. How unsurprising. It is the progressive way after all.