Policy 10/03/2009
Posted by rosshunter on October 2, 2009
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Ezra Klein – Will 2010 Be Another 1994?
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Posted by: exgovgirl | October 2, 2009 11:52 AM
| Report abusethat’s a compelling perspective, exgovgirl, and makes a lot of sense.
The Civil War is not very far in the past, and the seed of it was brought into the Union with slavery. From the beginning we’ve had this dirt to wash off. Perhaps we’re still washing, perhaps not, but the Republican party would be a great baby to throw out with the bathwater.
Posted by: rosshunter
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
One of the key differences between ‘93-’94 and today, I think, is that the Clinton adminstration was curiously tone-deaf to the political impact of many of its actions (gays in the military, a complex, government-centric health care reform proposal), while the Obama adminstration has been, extremely cautious (IMHO, too cautious) about taking actions which would ruffle anyone’s feathers. Numerous surveys have shown that the vitriol toward the Democrats that Cook cites is almost exclusively a Southern phenomena, and despite the fact that it is un-pc to say it folks, the issue is race, race, race. I have no doubt that the GOP will gain seats in the South in 2010, and that some of the Blue Dogs Rahm Emanuel so carefully courted may lose their seats, but the more that Republicans become identified as a Southern party, the less appeal they will have in the rest of the country, because the stereotype of the backwards Southern/Appalachian redneck will even more unattractive as the population continues to diversify.