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Look Who's Given Up on the White Male

Posted Sep 17, 07 6:38 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Politics 

(Newser) – One constituency the Democrats have conspicuously not been courting this primary season is the blue-collar white male, and they shouldn't start any time soon, recommends Salon's Thomas Schaller. Bubba went to the other side in the late '80s and never looked back. The Dems didn't give up easily, but this year's crop of candidates has finally thrown in the towel, Schaller says.

In part that's because it's hopeless: it's difficult to imagine Hillary Clinton's strategy on wooing a groups that basically hates her. But with the non-white electorate bigger every year, and the growing enfranchisement of Latino and African American voters, he argues, it makes sense for Democrats to kiss them goodbye and not look back.

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Even labor-supporting Southern populist candidate John Edwards has made no significant attempt at wooing the "Nascar" demographic, marking what may be the end of the Democratic Party's connection with...   (User: Madmaxmarchhare; Wikimedia Commons)
Jokingly nicknamed "Nascar Dads," the demographic of white, working-class American males appear impenetrable to the campaigns of Democratic presidential hopefuls.   ((c) phillips8589)
The size of the white male demographic, the undisputed majority for decades, is dropping a full percentage point annually.   (Shutterstock.com)
With a gradual decline in majority, the "Bubba" vote may no longer tip the scales in American elections, resulting the demographic being largely ignored by Democrat campaign strategies.   (Shutterstock.com)
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Nascar advertisement muses on the concept of loyalty. For many white, working class Americans, a loyalty to the Republican party has Democratic candidates writing them off as voters.   (mongosrace (YouTube))

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