[lbo-talk] Republicans want recessions

Charles Brown cb31450 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 19:31:59 PST 2015


The claim that Democrats' support among urban masses, organized workers, Blacks and Hispanics is decreasing is down right laughable. Ridiculous

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The Democrats are supported by the urban masses, their activists drawn from the ranks of organized workers, blacks, Hispanics, and other national minorities, liberal intellectuals, feminists, gays, environmentalists, etc.
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> Increasingly the latter more than the former, as the party dropped its labor/social democratic side in favor of courting professional-managerial class suburbanites. Lily Geismer has a new book on the suburbanization of the DP and the origin of New Democrat politics; I interviewed her about it here:
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> http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S150115
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