Well, tomorrow will prove much. Even if the offensive Moore loses, the obvious sex offender and clear racist will get a substantial amount of votes proving that this country has a tribal problem. Irrational and baseless seething hate for the Left will encourage far too many Conservatives (Christians, fathers, and mothers) to choose trash like Roy Moore to represent them simply because he is on the Right. The "best candidate for the job" just isn't in our national lexicon anymore.
And isn't Alabama one of those states where there are a billion black voters? The candidates might not be black, which matters according to the record numbers who came out to vote in 2008 and 2012, but let's see if they even care. If they do not get out and vote as they should, it will show that a lot of their arguments against racism is just hot air.
Spend some time in the Deep South and find out why Alabama (26% black) and Mississippi (35% black) have almost solidly-white representation in Washington and always have (except for a little bit during Reconstruction). Most whites down there will not vote for a black guy - some will, but most won't. That's why it's a real gamble for Doug Jones to try to encourage the blacks to vote, because by doing so, there will be whites who switch over to Moore for that reason alone.
And no, this is not B.S. Read up on Nixon's "
Southern Strategy" - his campaign knew that if they were going to win the electoral votes of the Deep South, they had to reach out to what they called the "negrophobes":
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.
And Nixon's campaign was right. See the bolded part? The Deep South used to be the Democrats' "Solid South", but now it's the strongest base of the GOP...since those in power in the South are the children of those who fought so hard against desegregation. The apples don't fall far from the tree.
Look, maybe you've lived in the Deep South...but that doesn't automatically mean you understand the Deep South. Racism informs so much of daily life there - you don't see it, but if you were raised there as I was (and I was raised racist), it can't be hidden from you. Anyway, that's why those "billion blacks" you referred to don't have more representation - the whites make doggone sure it doesn't happen. The whites are a strong majority, and by mostly refusing to vote for blacks, not many blacks get elected except for in urban areas or strongly majority-black regions such as the MS Delta...and
very few blacks get elected for statewide offices.
You can try to deny all this if you want...but that really is the way it is Down South. Nixon's team knew it and acted on it, and that's why the Deep South is solidly Republican instead of remaining the Democratic "Solid South". The "negrophobes" outnumber the blacks, pure and simple.
One more thing - those "negrophobes" and racists...if you ask them, they'll swear up and down that they're not racist at all. That's the way it was with my family - we would have been greatly offended if someone called us racist, after all the food and clothing and money that we shared with our black neighbors, and we held no malice towards them. But we were racist indeed, because as soon as the blacks were out of earshot, out would come all the racist jokes, accusations, and allegations...and we never realized how our "secret racism" informed our social and political attitudes in ways that directly harmed the blacks. In other words, most racists don't even recognize their racism for what it really is...but blacks - and those of us who made the journey out of racism - can see it, we can see it plain as day, we can't help but see it. But those Down South who don't recognize their own racism can't see it at all, just as it's doggone hard for a lifelong smoker to be able to smell cigarettes.
