re: #20 Dark_Falcon

Florida is also very much purple.

Thanks to the non-white population.

As soon as my school/work schedule calms a bit, I’m actually going to do a big effortpost about north vs. south racism, and how bad northern racism was after the civil war when black sought employment, how ghettoization and all that shit went down. I think that there’s a hell of a lot of racism to be held to account in the North historically and that it often gets brushed aside in attacks on the South, especially in the post-civil war era.

However, it is inescapably true that there is a severe correspondence between having supported secession and now supporting the GOP, as a geographical area, and, sadly, those GOP voters show very, very, shockingly high rates of racism.

I think moreover, that this can be shown to be the result of ‘conservative’ policies in those states, policies that limited educational opportunities, tended to favor monolithic enterprises rather than a small-business, tech-oriented industrial base, and kept separation of church and state weak. Basically, aside from the racist policies of the confederacy, a lot of its political legacy, or rather, the politics it represented, left behind in the South: A much lower commitment to social welfare, not just for black people but for the poor in general.

It’s not as simple as “inherited racism leads to GOP voting”. It’s that conservative policies have damaged education, limited economic opportunity, and vastly increased racial tensions in those areas,