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10/22/2007: "White men are abandoning liberalism"

Ignore the fact that white men are demographic losers, composing just 33-36% of the US electorate, and quickly being overtaken by the burgeoning population of college-educated single women and people of color, both groups that prefer the Democratic party. To Kuhn, the white man is the “standard” American voter; or, as he put it in the Politico last week: “White men matter most.”

Once upon a time, Kuhn writes in his new book, The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma, white men voted for Democrats because they understood the importance of progressive economic policies. But since 1980 no more than 38% of white males have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. The problem? As civil rights and women’s liberation became part of the Democratic platform in the 1960s and 1970s, white men, “Like the rejected husband … walked out on liberalism for good.” The suggestion is that uppity women and minorities drove their white male providers away.

[ Liberalism wants to replace leaders with followers. Leaders want to do something else instead. Not news. ]

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/10/stupid_white_me.php