[lbo-talk] conservative states: poorer, less educated, more religious

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 08:34:23 PDT 2011


Ken: " Seems that the working class have managed to accept an ideology that goes against its own interests especially blue collar workers."

[WS:} You see it as voting against their own interests, which I find odd in itself. Would voting in any other way change their material conditions? I doubt.

More importantly, this is not the way many of them frame it. They do not vote to line their pockets, they vote to vicariously kick ass of those who they despise or envy - which includes state workers, teachers, East Coast liberal elites, tree-huggers, fagots, and aliens.

Wojtek

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>    Seems that the working class have managed to accept an ideology that goes
> against its own interests especially blue collar workers. Does this mean that
> more and more blue collar workers will vote Republican?
>
> Cheers, ken
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
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> Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 10:32:51 AM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] conservative states: poorer, less educated, more religious
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> Richard Florida is pretty problematic, but this isn't without interest.
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> http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/03/the-conservative-states-of-america/71827/
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> "Conservativism [sic], more and more, is the ideology of the economically left
> behind.  The current economic crisis only appears to have deepened
> conservatism's hold on America's states."
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