Well, first you need to understand that some states are more urban (say, NY or California) and some states are more rural (say, WV or KY). Then you look at the chart and try to figure out if the dark red are in the more rural states or more urban ones. Then you conclude that this is more a rural problem.Imdaman said:
I guess I shouldn’t call them that, since that has a defined meaning here. I mean that while a candidate who is good in many respects maybe someone I cannot vote for in good conscience because they are devoted to just one seriously unjust or immoral cause. In the reverse case, however, paying lip service to these things doesn’t automatically mean I’ll vote for the candidate running against the one I cannot vote for in good conscience.
The new racism involves a maintaining a plausible deniability that it is actually racist, but we shouldn’t be fooled as Catholics - racism is an intrinsic evil and we shouldn’t have to wait for lynchings to call it what it is.
I agree with that. I use the bishop’s voting guidelines as they bring up many issues and neither major party does a very good job on this complete list.
Which is the plausible deniability that I was talking about. The bishops mention it in their voter’s guide, but you choose to ignore it under the guise of it being ‘flung around so flippantly it has lost all meaning in discourse’. This attitude is exactly why racism continues to exist in America as good people stick their heads in the sand and refuse to see it.
This is only a useful stand for people repping a racist.
I’m not a Democrat by any means, but this is disingenuous (and surely you realize it.) The parties have realigned over the past several decades vis-a-vis southern white conservatives. Those Democrats would have almost certainly have been Republicans if you mapped it onto our current political alignment.
I’m in total agreement. I feel left out of the political process right now. Catholics are not served well by either major party.
We just feel how others have felt like in the past.