SLSL Intro "Racial Differences"

[tyro tortoise]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, that "Introduction" was written, published
> during the first Reagan administration, in the wake
> of
> much talk of the apparently easily divided 'n'
> conquered so-called "Reagan Democrats" (largely,
> white
> middle and working class voters) who apparently put
> issues not entirely unrelated to those peculiar
> American race relations ahead of even ther own
> likely
> economic et al. concerns.  Willingly remained poor
> and
> disenfranchised (as opposed to corporations) so long
> as minorities remained poorer and even more
> disenfrachised.  

Wha? Who were the Reagan Democrats? Aren't most voters
in America white middle and working class? 

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