I am certainly pleased at the outcome, but I wouldn't say class trumped race. The stats I've seen show a partisan swing among all groups everywhere but in the Bible Belt, ironically the center of power of the old populist movement (Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Appalachia). Something certainly did trump race, but I wouldn't say class. People, white Southern workers aside, turned to Democrats to end the war and fix the economy. You don't have to be acting out of class instinct or consciousness to want the Gov to prevent recession/depression.
To me the election is another depressing reminder of the weakness of class consciousness in the U.S. Remember BHO ran on bringing us together, not on afflicting the comfortable. More work to do. > > There is no question that class trumped race in this election and this is a > good thing. There is no question that Obama's election is the result of > thousands' of disenfrancised and passive people becoming politically active > and this is a good thing. Obama's avoidance of identity politics and his > framing of issues like security, health, education, and environment as issues > that affect us all is a good thing. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
