re: #418 Belafon

I really would like to end the narrative that Democrats don’t take rural areas seriously. I’m really serious that a whole lot of them vote because they are racist. Democrats create programs to help both rural and city people and yet rural peole refuse to look at them because they help “those others.”

This only happens if the Dems can figure out a way to convince rural Americans that “Democrat” isn’t a dirty word. That the party is not a group of yuppie, gun grabbing, god hating communists.

And that’s a tall order. You can point to Doug Jones in Alabama but he only won because his opponent was exceptionally awful. Even still, he beat Moore by only 1.5 PERCENT. One of the worst Republicans that’s ever been STILL almost won election in a deep red state.

This is the uphill battle Democrats face in the South and in rural regions.