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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I think this may be Dean's undoing.
That having been said, the Dems ought to be focused on the demographic group that is white, male, southern and poor. The fact that this group has become almost as solidly Republican as the black, male, southern, poor vote is Democrat swings a number of important states, and there is no good reason for that to be the case once we get past racial issues, and I do believe we are, as a country, finally getting past those racial issues.
But we aren't going to win that group by calling them racists. It suggests that Dean isn't very over it.
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I'm pretty sure that Dean wasn't calling them racists. I think he was acknowledging that the group, with the damned Confederate flags (which most of them would say have nothing to do with racism, and much more to do with Southern heritage, but then I'm a Texan, so what do I know about the south?), needs to be picked up by the Democratic party.
Sharpton called Dean a racist.
Salon notes that Dean has said this before, back when he was an underdog that didn't have snowball's chance in hell of winning the primary, and that he generally got standing ovations when he said it.
