who lives in a working-class multiracial neighborhood by choice, not some ivory white golf community.
Howard Dean was right when he said we needed to find a way to reach out to those redneck voters. It is important that the Democrats bring a message and a plan to those working class people like myself but not by being like the Republicans. Democrats must divert these people from issues like gay marriage, abortion, or gun rights. They need to tactfully tell the working class how what they will do about health care, Social Security, education. Things that really matter. Also, do it in plain, straight talk so that they will understand. Nobody can be a political science major or an economist. Especially those working poor.
The best thing the party can do to shift attention away from the gun issue is to
STOP TRYING TO TAKE AWAY PEOPLE'S NONHUNTING GUNS!!! Fighting to ban civilian rifles and shotguns with protruding handgrips, or all civilian guns holding 11 rounds or more, is an absolutely idiotic crusade when you consider the percentage of Dems, indies, and the uncommitted in swing states who are gun owners. Guns
do "really matter" to many working-class Dems and indies, and we're not talking about hunting guns, either.
FWIW, I do strongly object to the label "redneck" as applied to working-class people. My wife and I are both college-educated, and she's originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, FWIW.
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