While they definitely agree that abortion and gay marriage is but, It's not as much about issues as it is culture. Everybody you know in your small communities are conservative, so your entire social sphere believes a certain way. If you dare venture left, you are ostracized by that community.
You would never want to to though, because being a conservative is a central part of your identity. At the end of the day, these people still want a decent education, accessible health care services and reliable infrastructure.
Talk radio. Get these people away from Limbaugh and his ilk and within about a month they turn back into halfway normal people. I've seen it happen with my own eyes.
Seriously. My SO and I were reading the WAPO article about the Alabama election and the various demographic breakdowns and we both just said "what is wrong with these people?".
It's truly interesting to me - has something been done to them to have them fail to see the issue? Have we, in this politicalized evangelical Christianity created a monster far worse and further reaching than scientology?
Theres an age breakdown. Overwheming white voters went for moore but like all of them were over 50. Under 50 whites voted for jones. Its old people again
Which is also a paradox, because why would you not support social programs (and candidates advocating for such) that would then help those lower income families raise the child you want to force others to have? It’s so strange to me, no matter how hard I try to empathize I can not understand that disconnect between advocating for an unborn child while simultaneously advocating for less help for living infants.
You can't kill that baby in your womb and you can't have any of my money to care for it. I'm ashamed to say too many of my friends have explicitly said this.
They voted for Moore because "givent the two choices, I would support the person who maybe misbehaved 40 years ago over the person who supports the right to kill a baby in the womb. One possibly hurts a life; the other ends it. Easy call."
Yeah I read the same thing. I don’t like to generalize, but next time I meet a white person from Alabama, I’m gonna have an implicit bias against them until they prove otherwise. There’s just no excuse. The ONLY reason Moore isn’t in prison right now is because of the statute of limitations.
They've been lied to and used just as much as everyone else. That's not to excuse their backwards points of view, but just look at what Trump is doing and how that runs totally counter to their own self interest. As a young, white alabamian who voted for Jones, there are a ton of us who wanted Roy Moore out of office but never thought we had the chance, but we finally were able to. Even with how close the vote was, I am so proud of Alabama right now and I think this is just a signal of what is to come. Moderating voices be heard!
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As a white person, I gotta ask, “What the hell is wrong with white people in Alabama?”