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There are all sorts of conservatives. That's what the "conservatives", the extremists, don't seem to understand. As far as the blue collar folks go, well, it's the GOP which has sought to dismantle their lifestyles. It's an unprecidented, in my lifetime, attack on the workers in the country ... launched by the GOP across the country. Regarding rednecks ... they're not entitled to respect. Take the sheets off their heads, and expose them to the light! Maybe, like vampires, they'll burn-up in the Sun! There's always hope.
I think you mistake rednecks with white trash, a common mistake. Rednecks are honest hard working country folk. White trash are welfare recipient, high school drop outs who pump your gas at chevron. Big difference. Also I consider myself a traditional conservative and support Ron Paul although unfortunately I doubt he'll win.
That's a topic for a different thread. The subject of this thread is prejudice against blue collar people. Some of the harshest comments are against union workers. I've read comments in which they are described as lazy and spoiled. These comments seem to come mainly from conservatives, who are complaining about prejudice against blue collar workers.
It's not that liberals don't support our views it's that they portray anyone who isn't a latte sipping, white collar, liberal urban dweller as some backwoods inbred from deliverance. as far As the gay issue is concerned I don't give a damn if you like other men but, I have no obligation to support it.
I think a lot of it goes back to the gay issue. Most working class people are less educated and more likely to be religious and/or homophobic and that's what liberals are disgusted with. That, and they also tend to be global warming deniers or at least dont support global warming legislation.
Yes, but if you read sites like Kos, DU, or Media Matters, you will see on a regular basis the most disgusting attacks on basically poor people who happen to be white. This from a crowd who presents themselves as "tolerant" and "compassionate".
When did conservatism become synonymous with blue collar? To me you can't get any more blue collar than unions and most of the union bashing is coming from conservatives.
Why is it that these days the only group still publicly humiliated on a day to day basis is conservative whites?
It may feel this way to you, but I assure you conservative whites are not the only maligned group. It probably feels that way because you live in a more liberal area, where prejudice against conservatives is high. But in more conservative areas, the opposite is true.
The REAL problem we have in the US is that a growing percentage of people live in close proximity to people who only think as they do, which makes people more extreme in their viewpoints, be they conservative or liberal.
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