[quote Delphinium20]@DidoLamenting yeah, I came across as a snob. You're right about that. That's why apologized.
there's a bit of truth in the MAGA folks and education...Trump does have a higher percentage of white supporters without a college degree. [/quote]
All the 'educated' people I personally know voted for Trump (white and POC). Professors, military officers, entrepreneurs, I mean Elon Musk is toying with voting for Trump (a/o Sept 2020) and he is arguably the most visible individual visionary with impact in regards to space travel and vehicle engineering in the US.
Biden/Harris has a higher percentage of POC supporters without an education than Trump - why does either demographic slant even matter? It doesn't, it is just further polarizing disconnecting the socio-economically depressed from the comfortable - if you are without opportunity or basic necessities or other things most Americans take for granted who cares what color your skin is? If you look at it through that lens you are valuing certain humans over other humans based on their skin color. Just like how men are valued over women, they are both nasty and truly bigoted perspectives. No one chooses their skin color or sex - we are what we are. The people without the basics or living below acceptable standards don't give a fuck about the 'lords and ladies' (read: 1% and politicians) they care about food, housing, medical care, and opportunity and they vote according to what they believe will serve them and their interests best. They have a right to exercise their perspectives and vote based on their beliefs regardless of how PC or un-PC they appear to elites.
You appear to be a classist at heart and willing to denigrate groups of people based on assumptions about an 'accent' that is inextricably tied to a dialect carrying heavy derogatory stereotypes which couldn't be further from the truth in many cases. You seek to paint the 'southern accents' as only tied to 'uneducated whites' with a hot tarred brush watching those you find beneath you melt under your superior existence while experiencing euphoria at the thought of throwing feathers upon their melted visage.
I'm educated, didn't vote for Trump, won't vote for Trump this time and cannot in good conscience vote for Biden. I am logical and refuse to engage in the cognitive dissonance required to vote for Trump or Biden. My family is of the south (spread from southern California to Oklahoma to Kentucky and further eastern south), mostly white, and are divided almost in half by political perspectives. Funny enough those (in my family) with the heaviest of accents and least education are deeply entrenched in being progressive, hating on the other half that supports Trump without any understanding of the issues. The Trump supporters actually read and watch Congressional hearings etc. and can tell you the actual history of our country - the good and bad from policy to social conventions. I am in the extreme minority (in terms of family) as I see both parties and both choices for what they actually are and refuse to submit to the dogma of either and am an active student of our nation's history.
There is a reason so many of the 'educated' move to my state - as per recent findings, "an average of 950 people move to Florida every day and a majority come from high-taxed areas like New York, Boston, California and Chicago"; why do you think that is? "The Elliman report found that new contracts for single-family homes and condos continued to surge in five Florida counties after doubling in July. Palm Beach County saw a 268-percent increase in single-family home contracts worth more than $1 million in July." Florida registered voters are Dems at 37%, Reps at 35% and other at 28%. 28% OTHER, think on that a moment. Now tell me again how uneducated and red southerners are... I mean we are as south as you can get on this coast. A great deal of us educated Floridians are the 'other'. Elite people are moving here and pushing our socio-economically depressed population out of their cities and homes - pushing them to move to areas with high crime due to decreased opportunity that in many cases they recently escaped as little as ten years ago. My neighborhood used to be super affordable - fortunately still pretty diverse but much less so now than 20yrs ago. We bought our house for $80k in 2001 (a bike ride is just under 10 minutes to the beach) but now because of the elites crowding out the normal people you can't get a house in my neighborhood for under $450k - pushing the average income families to derelict communities unsafe for criminals let alone women and children. The elites are moving here due to taxes, they have jacked up the taxes in their cities and states so much that they come here, call it home, and are now putting their money behind making our state as fucked as NYC gentrifying and crashing our middle class housing as middle class income is quickly converting to just above poverty level when collating with housing. I'm sick of seeing normal diverse neighborhoods turned into white washed 'intellectual havens' of homogeny.
The southern accents you refer to are not really accents btw but a by-product of dialects of Southern American English and NEWSFLASH not all people with a southern accent are white. And while the 'accent' may give away domicile, it does not reflect a homologous ideology or perspective - that's like saying all NYers are 'progressive' which simply is untrue. Furthermore, progressivism doesn't mean what it used to mean - it now is interchangeable with authoritarianism. I mean I am told all the time by 'progressives' (mostly white of course) how my sex is a concept and I am a bigoted piece of shit 'Karen' Trump supporter merely for asserting that women's rights should be at the forefront instead of men's feelings/desires/opinions and should be safeguarded from all men regardless of identity or color or social status or wealth. Asserting such nonsense about someone like me isn't progressive - it is fascist, dogmatic, misogynist, short-sighted, and just plain wrong.
I know I came off strong and while I am responding to you this post is mostly a general response to anyone espousing your views. I don't mean to offend, but if I did perhaps you should have a think on it?