Oddbean new post about login | logout @f884fa2b One of my co-workers, (pre-retirement Maine) used to rail about the 'Welfare folk'. I shared with him the actual statistics, that 98% of those receiving benefits were Elderly, Children, & People with disabilities, & white. Ronny Raygun along with Lee Atwater were successful with their "Southern Strategy" in coded dog whistles, "Welfare Queens" are black. https://youtu.be/X_8E3ENrKrQ?feature=shared
@af82bac8 Yes, from Reagan's ugly racist rhetoric about welfare queens and lazy "bucks" — some of it delivered right in Philadelphia, Mississippi, whose significance he knew well — through Atwater, Gingrich, the whole Southern campaign, there has been a relentless attempt of the Republican party to make people think black and brown when they think welfare. When the facts tell us something entirely different….