The Democrats also abandoned the working people in the south.

My family had a legacy in seafood work going from my father, to my grandparents, even great grandparents. They either worked in seafood with fleets, or they were active in the construction of the boats. My grandparents could tell you, cause they lived it, how decades ago they were lifelong Democrats and there used to be a strong presence of unions and workers rights with the seafood factories and shipyards. My grandparents go all the way back to the days of JFK and they quit voting all together come the 2000s. It had nothing to do with how black Obama was, they had already been screwed by Clinton in the 90s and they were smart enough to see right through Obama.

The Democrats began ignoring them in the 1980s and come the Clinton era, they absolutely betrayed and later abandoned these workers. What little bit of unions they had left after the Reagan years, it was all crushed and destroyed during Clinton's presidency.

There's a pretty good book about Dems abandoning the working class of the south called 'What's Wrong in Kansas?'. That book goes through how the Dems just started abandoning the southern states and leaving them unchallenged for the GOP.

For all my life down here, the Dems have never gave a shit about the common person. They only ever sit back in their strongholds of the big cities and do campaigns there. They don't run house district candidates outside the big cities and when it comes to governor and senate, they barely put any effort into it at all. The excuse is always about how stupid and backwards the people supposedly are, but the GOP wins landslides here cause it's mostly old boomers and middle class households voting for them. The working class largely don't vote cause there isn't a candidate that represents their interests.

But your point is clear; why the fuck would any of us down here want to vote Democrat when we get no respect from them at all? Hillary didn't even step foot in any southern states except Florida, and she only went there after the Pulse night club shooting. She was tied with Trump in fucking Georgia of all places in the summer of 2016 and never stepped foot there. Liberals think that Dem politicians are entitled to our votes, and they absolutely are not. The Democratic party has made it clear how much they hate poor people in the south.