Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deny that racial politics influence many Southern rural voters--but not that many. Liberals ought to face the facts: Liberal elitism hurts Democrats just as much as Southern racism, if not more...
...that I think contempt for rural residents is exclusive to Harvard or to liberals. After all, the similarity of the word "urbane" (meaning "well-bred and courteous") to "urban" is no etymological accident. I'm not even convinced that elitist Harvardians--both liberal and conservative--disdain "rednecks" any more than they disdain the working class in general...
...this insensitivity--not the ignorance of rural voters--that makes the rural South a Republican electoral fiefdom...
Bush's blue-blood ancestry and his Yale education certainly don't qualify him for that praise. And though Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is hardly a farm-boy himself, he comes closer than Bush to matching the class aspirations of most rural Southern voters. Yet they went for Bush in droves...
...liberal friends love to theorize about what "false consciousness" drives rural Southerners to vote in opposition to their class interests. "The Democrats are the party of the common man, right? Why don't those rednecks vote for us? Ah, it must be the racism...