Thread by @docrocktex26

I think what’s happening is people are mistaking a shift of White woman voters (for race-based reasons) away from Ds and *back* to Rs as “Democrats didn’t turnout”. Folk don’t understand that White voters swing back and forth depending on how fearful/resentful/spiteful they feel.

How White women helped propel Republicans to victory in Virginia | via @NBCNews #SouthernStrategy101 nbcnews.com/politics/elect…

Southern. 👏🏾 Strategy. 👏🏾 101. 👏🏾

What the Polls Really Tell Us About How Critical Race Theory Affected the Virginia Election | via @Slate #SouthernStrategy101 slate.com/news-and-polit…

As if bigots give a shit about facts. I guarantee you it wouldn’t have mattered worth a damn to the White voting majority. ACORN also wasn’t really a Black nefarious plot to steal the election for Obama but that didn’t stop the GOP/SCOTUS from dismantling the Voting Rights Act.

How and why Loudoun County became the face of the nation’s culture wars | via @washingtonpost h/t @crankybecky wapo.st/3o3y6UR

This likely wouldn’t work either b/c these people want their kids to grow up to be thoughtless, unempathetic, incompassionate racists just like mommy/daddy. Also some of the anti-CRT rhetoric even demonizes SEL (social emotional learning). They fully intend to raise sociopaths.

Anti-CRT propaganda (read Southern Strategy) finds a receptive audience amongst non-college educated White women b/c they stand to lose the MOST socioeconomic standing if the system of White patriarchy/oligarchy keeping them & their male benefactors afloat gets dismantled by CRT.

They deny that slavery was genocide and that the Confederacy lost the Civil War too. They deny that the Civil War was about slavery. They deny that Trump lost the election and that Jan 6 was a White supremacist insurrection/domestic terrorist attack on the Union. They LIE & DENY.

The Confederacy angle is key b/c it’s something that’s deeply understood in the South but either gets omitted from the media narrative altogether or dismissed as a quirky fringe by White “moderate coastal elites” b/c it makes White people look bad & the GOP look like terrorists.

People still need to come to grips with the reality that the White majority in VA & the rest of the Dirty South is still pissed that their Confederate flags/statues (read symbols of White supremacy) have been tumbling down since 2015. CRT is gasoline on a long-ranging wildfire.

And it isn’t just that Confederate symbols are tumbling down, it’s that they do so at the behest of a movement that says Black Lives Matter, in response to White domestic terror attacks perpetrated by right-wing vigilantes and racist police. It’s another lost civil war for them.

This is why it unequivocally does NOT fucking matter that CRT isn’t actually being taught in K-12 in VA or anywhere else in America. The propaganda works b/c these people have already been stewing over emancipation, Reconstruction, school integration & the CRA/VRA for 156 years.

It was always a fallacy to expect that the White voting majority’s Pavlovian response to race-baiting GOP propaganda would suddenly go offline just b/c Trump isn’t on the ticket. He too was merely riding a wave of hatred and ugliness that’s been endemic in America for centuries.