re: #202 calochortus

I’m sure I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. When many of us look at rural GOP voters and ask why they are voting against their own interests, we’re using a very narrow definition of self interest.
Maybe they won’t get a good job or make more money, but they will get the psychological rewards of being more privileged than some other group. They won’t ever be rich, no matter who is president, so that doesn’t figure into the equation.

Exactly, they don’t care that they might live in squalor and poverty, just so long as the ni-CLANG next door has it worse than them. If they’ve got to shit in a pot, they want to ensure that nobody with skin darker than them has a pot to shit in. And will vote for a Republican if he promises them not only a pot, but that he’ll swipe those pots from the ni-CLANGs in the process.