Yeah, the horrible heat like more money for SocSec and affordable produce.
I haven’t, but two separate people (a friend, and my wife) in the last 24 hours have mentioned getting some Remember to Vote Worms. I wish I’d known about these earlier!
I don’t know. It might be different in the bigger cities, but it just seems to me that urging someone to vote is not exactly polite conversation. There’s a place for it, sure, but in casual conversation, especially with strangers? I don’t see it.
Yeah, those damn white people voting. How dare they!
Whereas here, when we see the president calling Democrats “crazy” and “mobs,” calling Nazis “good people”; when the government is locking up children in order to terrorize refugees into not seeking asylum; when our transgender friends are seeing their identities erased by the federal government; when my county sheriff is a choice between a 25-year veteran who wants to encourage de-escalation and a business-owner with no law enforcement experience who wants to crack down on opioid addicts with increased prosecutions and who thinks de-escalation is a failed social experiment;
Around my parts, politeness is a luxury no longer afforded to us.
It sounds like politics doesn’t have much impact on your life. That’s great. Your experience isn’t universal.
White people are a minority in Alabama? Man, I must have missed some news.
Isn’t that the ideal?
In many parts of the state, including my hometown, yes whites are the minority.
What’s impolite about it? It’s a shared civic duty. I encourage others to vote, regardless of who I expect them to vote for.
It’s not like the act of voting is controversial or subversive. When you encourage people to vote, it’s not like you’re encouraging someone to take a particular side on a political issue.
Or maybe you are, if the governing structure of your state or locality depends on an apathetic electorate so that the people in power can continue to run things without anyone looking over their shoulders.
Well then my point stands. They probably don’t want those pesky white people knowing it’s time to vote!
We have faith that you will somehow find the strength to bear this cross. 
More likely, the whites don’t want the blacks to get organized and actually start running the local government. That happened in one county next door in Georgia, and Brian Kemp (who may be the next governor of Georgia) hounded the new leadership, along with the people who had busily registered enough blacks so that they were a majority.
Implying that I’m racist, even if done with a wink and smile, is not funny.
Or maybe you’re just admitting that you’re a racist without technically admitting it? You know, the whole accusation is confession thing…
I don’t know, it’s just seen as something that nobody’s business I guess.
Why must you read evil intentions into everything?
Maybe we’re just trying to get along with each other and provide for our families.
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When it comes to discrimination, I don’t think you have much to worry about.
Better wear sunglasses when checking out Oregon’s delegation. I might go blind from all the whiteness.
I’m not claiming to be a poor underrepresented white guy, am I?
If somehow the GOP does well Tues with all the anti immigration stuff being the focus, they will double down on that for 2020. It will be much worse than this year.
Well shit, neither am I.
I was stating a demographic fact, not complaining.