How does the Democratic Party win back the votes of poor white males?

[BrentWil]

If the GOP has a source of strength for resources, it is the two percent. Those votes actual votes, however, come from an educated minority. In other words, those votes know who and what they are voting for.

That said, if it has a source of strength for voters, it is poor white males. They are voting against their interests for a party that does not serve them. How does does the democratic party get this group, along with other groups that are voting against their interests, and finally kill the GOP for good?

[GaYellowDawg]

1. It won't.

Poor white males are low-information voters who like being low-information voters. They don't want their worldviews or prejudices rocked in the slightest, and the Republican Party plays to their prejudices. When they're in the majority, they're a mob. When they're in the minority, they go off in the woods and form survivalist camps.

The only way that poor white males would change their minds about parties would be if:

1. They changed their minds about women, other ethnicities, and other sexual orientations. Their economic status makes them feel low, but as long as they've got their prejudices, they've got someone to feel superior to.

2. After #1, they focused on the injustices in this life instead of being convinced that injustices will be corrected in the next. I'm not saying that they should abandon their religion; I'm Christian myself, but I think that people shouldn't just be content with thinking that the evil, or oppressive, or predatory rich will get theirs in the next life.

Karl Marx said that religion is the opiate of the masses, but so is prejudice, perhaps even more so. And you know how hard it is to kick an opiate habit.

[Fumesucker]

4. Interesting, I'm male, white, far from wealthy and live in the deep south

And I'm too liberal for much of DU.

Go figure.

[RC]

5. Not much to figure.

DU has a noisy constituent consisting of 3rd Way, Blue Dogs and other Right of Center types, pretending to be Democrats.

[GaYellowDawg]

7. Me too.

Can you honestly tell me, though, that we're not the exception to the rule?

[arely staircase]

2. since the depression the party has supported and passed legislation

that helps poor people of all colors. the gop, for the same amount of time has opposed help for the poor. if some poor whites are fooled into voting their fears and prejudices against their own economic interests, I guess it will have to be that way. as demographics continue to move toward a more heterogeneous America and poor whites become even a smaller relative political force, they are likely to become even more fearful and hostile to the more pluralistic party, the dems. but the dems will continue to back programs that help poor whites just as they help all poor people.

[Rex]

3. I would bet the Democratic party has just as many poor white males.

Sometimes you cannot fix stupid.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. You can't fix stupid. They will NEVER accept people like us.

I'm afraid we're just gonna have to crush them like a bug as we move our nation forward.

If you're not riding the waves of change, you're gonna get swept under. If they do not want to be saved from that fate, so be it.

Sorry to be so angry.