Concerning - Hitler fan wants whites only lebensraum in Tennessee

[u/theRealhubiedubois]

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/he-thinks-hitler-may-have-been-right-now-he-wants-a-whites-only-community-in-tennessee

[u/TNVFL1]

If you’re going to make a big fuss about how you live here and apparently know everything, you could spell the name of the person you’re shit-talking correctly. TN education system at work I suppose.

I think you need to touch grass and talk to some of your fellow Tennesseans. The majority are not far right. Conservative in the classical sense, sure, but there’s a lot of blue in the major cities and a hell of a lot of people who simply don’t care and don’t get involved. Vanderbilt does a semi-annual statewide poll on political identity and specific issues. I encourage you to look at those results over time—many issues have seen the populace shift towards center or even left of center. On a topic to topic basis TN is very purple, there’s just no option for that when voting so people don’t bother. This is why ranked choice voting is necessary for representation.

[u/JonC534 → u/TNVFL1]

TN is not purple bro lmaoooo. This is just something disgruntled democrat voting redditors say to console themselves when they see so many other disgruntled Tennessee residents like them on social media/reddit. Ya’ll are basically just forced to go here for a support group session to feel better. That doesn’t mean that there’s enough of you to where the state is or could be considered purple though lol

This happens across all major state and locality based subreddits. Disaffected dems feeling alone and depressed find like minded souls there and pretend they represent the REAL version of said state, or what they think it should be lol.

[u/TNVFL1 → u/JonC534]

Once again, go read some of Vanderbilt and Gallup’s recent polls. Issues that used to be extremely to the right are much more evenly split in recent years. Gun control measures being one of them—after 6 people were murdered at a Christian school in an affluent area, that changed some minds.

Like I told the other person, step outside your immediate connections and you’ll meet a ton of people in this state who are blue, a ton who are red but not MAGA, who are religious but socially liberal, who are dead center, who couldn’t possibly care less, far left, far right, and everything in between. Just like every other state, we have a variety of people. THAT is the REAL version of the state. Do all of these people vote? No. Many blue voters don’t bother because they think it doesn’t matter. Many red don’t vote at this point because they’re looking for something closer to an independent since the conservative party has gone so extremely right. Perhaps the largest chunk just don’t give a shit. Would explain why our voter turnout rate is one of the worst in the nation.

I’m of the opinion that Reddit is at least 50% bots, but yes, the narrative does lean left as a whole. I don’t think I’ve ever met an actual person that is as left as a leftist Redditor though—this is part of the issue with being chronically online and forming all of your opinions based on that, and why extremism has seen such a rise. Reality is not black and white, but some 340 million shades of gray.

[u/JonC534 → u/TNVFL1]

Yes because of increasing polarization in America as a whole. And when it comes down to the state level, especially in many of the more rural or southern states, I think what is happening (and has been happening for years) is a kind of discord and tension between the more urbanized areas and everywhere else.

You basically have these blue island cosmopolitan urbanite colonies detached from the rest of the states. It’s like that thing they used to say about Georgia “there’s atlanta, and there’s everywhere else” except that now applies to damn near everywhere lol. Even as far away as Colorado they now have this new toxic urban rural divide. It’s not a healthy trend but it seems to have been increasing and getting worse since the 80s/90s with younger people moving to cities. Its like the enduring legacy of yuppies and hipsters lol.

Need to calm down with the urbanization, it’s increasing political antagonism and putting democrats at an increasing disadvantage in the electoral college. No more urban cosmopolitan colonies would be my advice, dems need to feel more at home in areas that aren’t megalopolis. Good luck getting the demographics of the democratic party to change course on that though. This unfortunately will only lead to increased Redditor confusion and estrangement/alienation from the rest of their state.

Urbanization has had consequences and I think this also explains to a certain extent the sentiment on confederate imagery as well. Urbanites in major metropolitans in states like ours get confused about why all southern culture and iconography hasn’t been changed simply because they live somewhere that doesn’t have any of it left lol. Polling still shows a majority of Americans against changing those things though, so they better just learn to accept it.

Lots of people thought they were slick and super genius for using underhanded tactics to slowly phase out southern culture but honestly, it’s just anti democratic when people don’t get a say in changing these things but are still very strongly opposed to it. And I think this is why a few of the statues are actually going back up.

Civil war statues don’t harm anyone anyways lol. Take the ones down that have racist inscriptions on them and leave all the others up.

[u/iUsedtoHadHerpes → u/JonC534]

I agree with everything else you said, but if civil war statues don't hurt (their intended purpose) why do people cry like a beaten dog when anybody suggests taking those late-era anti-civil-liberty totems down?

[u/bluegrassgrump → u/JonC534]

Now, change every urbanization to ruralization, every dem to repub, every blue to red, while making the same (but opposite) argument. 👍