[lbo-talk] Dennis Perrin on the ecstasy of the Dems

[Marvin Gandall]

The support for Obama in Iowa and Jackson earlier in Vermont shouldn't be
surprising. Racism develops where there are sizeable visible populations of
minorities to blame for joblessness, crime, rejection of the majority
culture, etc. The Dutch, Scandinavians and other Europeans were considered
models of tolerance until they began receiving substantial flows of
immigrants from Asia and Africa. Moreover, participants in the Democrat
primaries comprise the most liberal political constituency in America and
are a proxy for a large part of the country, but not the whole of it.
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Wendy Lyon writes:


> On 04/01/2008, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
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>> I'm not ecstactic myself about this Iowa vote. However, I must take
>> note of this one small positive about the US politics even in the depths
>> of Reaganism. Somehow a  bunch of white people voted for a Black person
>> for president.  It's a tiny good thing in a sea of trouble.
>
> In the depths of *literal* Reaganism (1988) Jesse Jackson won eleven
> primaries, including Vermont, which is even whiter than Iowa. That was
> a good thing, but it didn't seem to change very much.
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