Bobby Jindal win due to "ethnic cleansing"
Normally, I don't like to discuss specific partisan political battles on this site, but this is almost too much.
Yesterday, US Representative Piyush "Bobby" Jindal won the election for governor of Louisiana with 53% of the vote. At 36, he will be the youngest Governor in the country, and the first one ever of Asian Indian extraction. He is the son of immigrants from India, and if you want to know more, his official biography can be found here.
If you are an American, but not familiar with Louisiana, you might be surprised to know that Mr. Jindal is a republican. As Michelle Malkin points out, the very fact that he is a Republican and an ethnic minority sends newspapers like the NYT into fits of confusion, as it doesn't fit their template on how the world should work.
Anyway, how is it possible that a Republican won when the country has supposedly taken a huge shift to the left in the wake of the continuing Iraq war and several high profile Republican scandals? And of all things, in a state that blamed George Bush for the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005?
To folks on the fringe political left, rational people would never elect a Republican, epecially under these circumstances (conveniently forgetting that Katrina was mostly a failure of response at the state and local level), so to explain this non-sequitor, another conspiracy theory is born (or I should say, an new twist on an old conspiracy): according to them, it was all due to the "ethnic cleansing" of Hurricane Katrina which forced black people out of the state! Didn't you know, this was all part of Karl Rove's plan to win Louisiana?
I am not joking. As a general rule, I don't like to cherry-pick quotes because you can always find crazy things said anywhere. But there were enough of these that it was actually becoming a groupthink theme. Some quotes below (spelling mistakes left as they were):
The Daily Kos is rich territory for conspiracy theories, and this one is no exception:
From "Walt star":
We now see the Katrina plan played out in full
Force the Dmeocrats to move out. That was the plan all along.
From "Bensdad":
Louisiana is red for one reason:
The Katrina Afermath.
If you "factor out" New Orleans, Louisiana is red because of all the fucking Baptists up North. New Orleans kept them honest, and purplish. Karl Rove knew that. That's why they didn't lift a finger after Katrina hit. It took awhile, but half the city left, and did not come back.
Mission accomplished.
From "Barry in MIA":
Ethnic cleansing, baby!
Why do really think NOLA is still in shambles - - remember who was in charge of reconstruction? ROVE
Later:
Ethnic cleasing works.
Jindal got 48% in 2003 and 52% in 2007, largely attributable to the shrinkage of the black vote due to forced relocation to other states / failure to rebuild New Orleans (we're too busy rebuilding the Sunni part of Iraq). I guess they run Milosevic in 2011.
From "Louisiana 1976":
It's Bush Administration...
ethnic cleansing by not letting New Orleans rebuild and repopulate that's turning Louisiana into a Red state. Because they don't want all the poor people of color who had to evacuate to come back.
From "LeftHandedMan":
Ethnic cleansing by Hurricane
pays off for the GOP handsomely I guess.
But of course, it's not just Daily Kos... The Internet is full of nuts everywhere:
A commenter at Hot Air:
Who here honestly doesn’t believe she [Gov Blanco] knew there was no chance she would get re-elected? Particularly after the effective ethnic cleansing job Bushitler did to replace the residents with white folk. Vanilla City here we come!
Democratic Underground:
Ethnic cleansing after Katrina?Or:
[How did he get elected?] By Running Most of the Democrats Out of the State, In This Case
And, of course, obscure blogs:
FUCK YOU JINDAL!
...
You Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, are a potential deadly disease to this place. You are the Katrina of the potential candidates!
Classy.
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3 comments:
People make stupid statements. This strategy wouldnt make sense anyway, even for Rove. It's a zero sum game. "Ethnically cleansing" LA would only drive those same minorities into surrounding states and make elections harder there
Jindal won for one very simple reason, the incompetence of Blanco in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was obviously bound to swing the state in the other direction in the next election. The attention of the news with the recent "Jenna six" incedent obviously didn't hurt that he was of indian decent and makes the state look more racially tolerable, but I seriously doubt this played a big role. Likewise the dilution of the democratic base in New Orleans I think didn't play much of a role in his election, again thanks to the incompetence of the current democratic administration. If Jindal doesn't do anything he promised this election, look for the state to swing the other direction in the next election.
No it's true! I did a simulation with some concrete and steel and a tiny model of Bobby Jindal and I could not get the steel to burn, the concrete would not implode and Bobby Jindal would not win the simulated election without Karl Rove flying Katrina into the Louisiana Superdome and chasing away the black people. I will be publishing my scientific findings on YouTube shortly.
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