Poor Kentucky has no stomach for Obama

[NERO]

Cacs gon' cac...

 

[superunknown23]

Wake up, wake up, wake up...

 

[DaPresident]

LOL...I mean this is TRULY funny.

They (damnmit, I have to use this word lol) INHERENTLY hate President Obama b/c he's a black man and support that Rethuglican party, but they'd be REALLY down and out if good ole Mitt would've gotten into office...


but smile!, he's white so he (by default) cares about their needs

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

*reads sig*

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Let's hope they die off

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

to Obama for destroying these broke cac communities.

Spoiler

Unforutunately his policies are destroying the hood as well..

 

[Piff Perkins]

Nobody EVER talks about the "culture of poverty" in Appalachia. I wonder why...oh wait I know. They're white.

Like it or not, the ACA is designed specifically to save people like the guy in that article yet his racial hatred won't let him see it. It's interesting how many poor white trash don't themselves as "takers"

 

[88m3]

Grind them into mulch I say. I want to see national park to national park and massive farm communes throughout the south and midwest.





sometimes the blood of patriots must be spilled.




how else will the liberty trees in my national parks grow up to be big and strong?





Seriously though, ground mulch.

 

[ltheghost]

Awww....sooo sad for them.

 

[RatherUnique]

These people still haven't connected their poverty and the ultra-conservative places they live.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

These people still haven't connected their poverty and the ultra-conservative places they live.

Stupidity will do that to em

I love it

GOP + communities like these is like watching a snake eating its own tail

 

[superunknown23]

How the GOP is Winning Among the Poor (white)

Among the far-right entertainer class, 2012 was defined as the “takers versus makers” election. According to that narrative, Romney lost because the grasping poor wanted a President who would promise them “free stuff” instead of opening up opportunities to succeed through hard work. Minority voters supposedly chose Obama by spectacular margins because, well…you know what those people are like.

The results tell a very different story. Obama performed well in many of America’s wealthiest areas, including places that have been Republican strongholds for generations. Romney, on the other hand, racked up lopsided wins won in some of the country’s poorest counties. A closer look at Romney’s success among the poor reveals a disturbing picture of the forces overwhelming the Republican Party in our time.

Brian Kelsey at Civic Analytics in Austin did an excellent analysis of voting patterns in the most government dependent counties in the US. He used data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis to gather a list of counties whose residents are most dependent on government aid in the form of food stamps, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and other “welfare” programs.

Strangely, Kelsey discovered that Romney won 21 of the 25 most welfare-dependent counties in the country. The pattern Kelsey found extends beyond his limited data set. Romney won some of his most overwhelming support in the 2012 election from America’s most “dependent” regions, carrying 77 of America’s 100 most welfare-dependent counties.

It turns out that America’s most aid-dependent counties share some other characteristics that might explain their voting patterns. They are overwhelmingly white, southern, and rural. In fact, 86 of them are in areas that did not outlaw slavery prior to the Civil War and 81 of them are majority white.

Romney lost only four of those 81. Three of those four are in the North. He lost only one county on that list which was white and Southern (Elliot, KY), and he lost there by 60 votes.

Another surprising pattern emerges from the analysis – the stark racial divide between the poorest Americans, and those who receive the most poverty relief. In an interesting irony, the list of most dependent counties does not line up with the list of poorest counties. The counties which receive the highest levels of welfare assistance are disproportionately white; while most of America’s poorest counties are majority-minority.

Though African-Americans and Hispanics suffer far higher poverty rates, they receive far less proportionately in government transfers. Poor whites receive government assistance at a far higher rate than poor non-whites. In other words, even in poverty, it pays to be white.

On the other end of the spectrum, Obama won half of the nation’s fifty wealthiest counties. He lost all of the counties on the 50 wealthiest list which are located in the South (if you exclude Virginia’s DC suburbs – not exactly the heart of Dixie).

This reflects a pattern seen across the country in the 2012 results. The Republican ticket saw its greatest success based not on wealth or welfare, but on three, ranked criteria:

1) Region – The single highest indicator of success for the GOP ticket regional. Republicans won reliably in sections of the country in which slavery was legal until Lincoln’s election.

2) Urbanity – The lower the population density, the more successful the GOP ticket.

3) Race – Romney performed best among white voters, particularly older white voters.

Where factors were at tension with one another, as in Harris County (Houston), the outcome was muddled. Houston is Southern, urban, and ethnically diverse. Obama scored a narrow win there, also winning Texas’ other big cities by modest margins.

In rural, Southern, majority-white counties, Romney racked up margins sometimes topping 90%. Apart from those three criteria, outcomes appear to be almost completely unaffected by poverty rates, welfare, food stamps, or any other socio-economic factors.

The “takers” narrative is not born out anywhere in the election results. Like voter fraud and un-skewed polls, it’s one of those ironclad facts of life that somehow only exist inside the magical world of rightwing media. Were those desperately poor white voters in counties across Kentucky and Tennessee choosing Romney in order to end their own “dependency,” or did some other factor inspire their passionate support of the GOP ticket?

The racial and regional character of the 2012 election and every subsequent political fight is ominous. It helps explain why political compromise has come to be equated with betrayal and why so-called “patriots” are willing to bring the country to its knees just to take rhetorical swipes at this Administration.

This approach to politics is not just failing the GOP at a national level. It is placing the party at odds with the country’s future direction. By playing on latent racial tensions, the party is fostering a degree of bitterness that will be difficult to diffuse and may have dangerous implications down the line.

How the GOP is Winning Among the Poor - GOPlifer

 

[Cabbage Patch]

this is the face of welfare, poor white trash in rural areas who hate obama and social programs protected by democrats. but they suck from the teat of gov assistance more than any other minority group. yet...



i almost want to see one term of the gop in control of congress and potus just to expose their hypocrisy and to watch a large segment of the gop base turn on them.

 

[Piff Perkins]

It's amazing that even the poorest white trash cac thinks he's better than a black person. To them, the handouts they receive are not handouts, they're earned benefits ("I'm not a taker, I have a job" even though they're on Medicaid).

This is really the crux of modern conservatism. The idea that the white working poor could become upper class if only they weren't burdened by supporting the black non-working poor.

 

[Handsback]

Wooooooowwwwwww........

No ambiguity in that at all. That shyt is cut and dry. I swear a lot of conservatives will scoff at those numbers though.

EVERYONE needs to see this shyt though.

I guess I'm a little more empathetic. It sucks to be stuck in that condition regardless of color. And those folks have been lied to just like we have. These folks believe SO STRONGLY that we're beneath them, that they'll vote against their better interests. Racism boarders on certifiable insanity and these folks follow that line of thinking religiously even if it means going hungry. There's something very sad about that to me.