May 3, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the political cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
It is always an honor and a privilege to welcome my good friend Dr. Kevin McDonald back to the broadcast.
He is one of the most regularly featured guests on this program, though he has not yet made an appearance in 2025.
We take care of that tonight.
The former professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, he is the author of several books, including Cultural Insurrections, Individualism, and the Western Liberal Tradition.
Of course, his seminal work, the Culture of Critique series, and he is back tonight to talk about this research article that our friends Brad Griffin and Courtney put together.
I thought that there was some interesting data there.
So we know, of course, that white women generally vote less conservatively or less for the Republican candidate than white men.
But in the South, there was virtually no gender gap at all.
And in fact, in three Southern states, and they were the only states out of the 50 that can say this, three Southern states had white women voting more for Trump than white men.
So you've got this data, this evidence that suggests that environment or region, as they put it, and especially religion played perhaps more of a central role in voting patterns than gender.
Dr. McDonald, welcome back to the program.
You were looking at this data, and thank you for posting it at TOO last week through the lens of evolutionary psychology.
What did you make of it?
Yeah, well, I was a personality psychologist in my academic career.
And so sex differences always really stood out to me in personality.
One of the big ones is that men are more into sensation seeking, risk-taking.
They seek pleasure and reward more.
They're adventures, explorers, they take chances.
And whereas women are more attracted to safety and they tend to accept established hierarchies.
To depart from an established hierarchy is risky.
And you can easily, as we all know, what happens when you get outside, you become a dissident and so on.
And things can really go south.
And so they become sort of gatekeepers or they try to enforce boundaries.
George Horwell has really a great saying talking about the Communist Party that it was always the women and above all the young women who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, swallowers of slogans, amateur spies and those out of unorthodoxy.
And that makes a lot of sense to me that you defend this established hierarchy.
And that's a real problem.
And obviously, the most powerful, visible status hierarchy that is taught in the schools.
It's preached in the media.
It's on the left.
And these boundaries are quite clear.
And they're getting, you know, there are more and more penalties involved and attempts to get people to squelch on other people.
The other one, trait that's very important is love nurturance.
And I did this.
This makes women more nurturant, you know, for children and so on.
And so that, For example, when there's an earthquake in Haiti or something, women are the ones that want to adopt these children.
I'm thinking of Amy Coney Barrett, you know, who's turning out to be more of a liberal than a conservative.
You know, they are very much into do-gooding, advocating for black people.
They're prone to accepting blacks as poor and academically deficient because of racism and that sort of thing.
Not stupidity.
And not disparity.
It's nothing to do with IQ or genetics or anything like that.
And in social science, women are more likely to favor studies that have sort of liberal implications, liberal left implications, like, you know, it's all racism or something like that, rather than scientific rigor.
Men are more likely to, you know, think that scientific rigor is very important, whereas women, less so.
The other system that I've studied a lot was fear.
And women are more prone to fears and phobias and anxiety disorders and that sort of thing.
And again, getting outside the established hierarchy is scary.
And it's scary for me at one time.
You know, because you are going to be disowned.
And, you know, women just love nurturing.
Women are more social and they value social relationships more and they worry more about what other people think about them.
And so this tends to make them vote in a more liberal direction.
As long as liberals are ascendant, wouldn't you?
Yeah, if conservatism was ascendant, they would be trying to latch on to the conservative message.
That's right.
And I think that accounts for a lot of these regional differences that the South is more conservative and always has been.
And the other thing I would note about these regional differences is I was very influenced by a book called Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fisher, who's a professor of history at Harvard.
And he talks about these regional differences that are still very important in the United States.
The Puritans came to New England.
They tend to be sort of liberal.
They were the established elite in this country until the Jews, descendants of the Jews after World War II, especially.
And they tend to be kind of liberal.
And you still see that.
These New England states voting Democrat now.
And they were the ones that spearheaded the anti-slavery movement and all that.
And the other one, the Southerners, that stem from these displaced, distressed cavaliers, more aristocratic English group.
And they had indentured servants back when they had slaves and that sort of thing.
And then certainly more conservative culture.
And the other group of the Scots-Irish, and they tended to be, you know, go to the backcountry, very militaristic.
I mean, they fought on this border wars in England and Scotland for centuries.
They're very militaristic.
And these are the guys that are the first to enlist in the military, has a long military tradition.
And so a lot of these regional differences are still there and remarkably so, actually, after all this time.
And they're still with us.
And I think, yeah.
Well, I'm just going to ask you this while we're on this topic, obviously, and this is the topic of the hour.
This poll that you have published, that rather not the poll, but this article that Brad and Courtney, by the way, Brad and Courtney worked on this for months.
This was not something that was put together very quickly.
They had been working on this.
I mean, the idea was hashed right after the last election when they saw these exit polls.
And then they've been working on it for quite a while, and it dropped.
And when they were finally ready for it to be published, it dropped almost simultaneously with this cooperative election study of 2024.
And it examines the Trump vote share in 2024 exclusively among white respondents.
Okay, we're only talking about white people, but in this one, the cooperative data study, they are grouping white men and women together.
And I would ask you to reconcile everything you have just said, which is certainly very valid, with these statistics.
And I'm just going to go to the extremes of the postgraduate white man or woman versus the high school educated or less white man or woman.
And this is with regards to attendance in church.
And out of postgraduates who never attend church, 18% of those white respondents voted for Trump.
Of postgraduates who attend church weekly, 68% of postgraduates who attend church weekly voted for Trump.
Out of whites who have a high school degree or less and never attend church, 50% voted for Trump.
Out of high school educated white men and women or less in terms of their academic advancement who went to church every week, 83% voted for Trump.
So again, and with the South, you have the most religious portion of the population very clearly.
How much of this plays, obviously it plays a role.
Why does it play such a role?
And how is it playing such a role?
And what can we learn from it?
Yeah, well, I do think that the conservatism of the South does stem from, you know, from, you know, what David Hackett Fisher says about Alban C, that, you know, it goes back to this conservative tradition.
And, you know, certainly religiosity tends to make people more conservative in our country.
Unless, well, now you've got these mainline Protestant groups that are very liberal.
A lot of them come out of that Puritan tradition.
And whereas evangelicals, much less so.
And you have, you know, the other thing is the college education.
You know, this is where there's so much propaganda and so much emphasis on conformity to these leftist doctrines.
And so I do think they come out of their sort of propagandize, shall we say.
And especially women, especially young women, are prone to this.
They are very much on the left and they want careers, they want abortions, they want all these things.
And so, yeah, I mean, I do think that sex differences are still there.
You can see that in all of Brad's things, with the exception of those southern states, some of the three southern states where women were actually more conservative.
But in general, women tend to be more on the left, more liberal, especially if they're college educated, especially if they're not married.
Being married, you know, I do think that women do conform to the values of their husband significantly.
And so, you know, they become more conservative likely.
Steve Saylor has made that point, Emphasize, especially if women have children, you know, they tend to be much more conservative because then they've got a family, they got a real stake in the society, they don't want their kids to turn out transgender and all that.
So, yeah, I do think that the being religious, going to church every week, tends to be conservative.
And where I live up here in Idaho, you can see that.
We're a very conservative part of the country.
And a lot of religious people, unfortunately, a lot of them are evangelicals and they love Israel.
They display Israeli flags, for God's sakes.
But yeah.
And that is certainly a pitfall.
That is certainly, and listen, nobody knows better than I, and we talk about it all the time, but that is something that needs to be corrected.
However, the other stuff is very good.
Keith, a quick question from you to Kevin, and then I want to talk to Kevin about something that he brought up to me this week that I definitely want to ask him about on the show.
We only have him for 30 minutes, and then we got Brad Griffin in the next half hour of this hour.
So go quick, Keith.
Okay, I was listening to your comments, and two things that came up in my mind were the tendency of women to be nest builders.
And anything that gets in the way of building their nest is the enemy.
That's why they go with the prevailing thought in the community regarding what is the right position to take and what isn't.
And as far as colleges and things like this, how do we get colleges out of the iron grip of the left?
I'll tell you what, between Kevin McDonald this hour and Ricardo Duchesne in the next hour, we got two that can certainly testify.
Do you have an answer for that one, Kevin?
That's a tough nut to crack right there.
Yeah, well, I do think that women are much more nurturant.
And so they become protected.
That's why I say when women get married and have children, they become a lot more conservative.
I mean, the most liberal radical women are unmarried and they're unhappy.
And they become lesbians and this and that.
Yeah.
And so I'm not surprised at that at all.
I mean, I think that this nurturance thing does make women more conservative when they have a family and little children.
They got to think about the future.
And they got to think about, unfortunately, a lot of these people don't really think about the prospects for their sons.
You know, that this has become a culture that hates white males and to some extent, even now, white females.
And we see all these people, for example, like the No College Club, you see white people saying, there's not any jobs for me if I go to college based on the credentials.
A lot of student debt, loan debt.
So what I'm going to do is give up white-collar employment and go for blue-collar employment.
And I think that's a terrible development because there's a lot of talent there that's not going to be consistently slotted into the economy.
Well, let me just say this very quickly.
If the prevailing knowledge is that white women do vote, and in 47 out of the 50 states, they did vote less for Trump than the men.
But if we also know, as a result of what Courtney and Brad have put together here, that the impact of faith, of culture can have on women.
And as you say, here in the South, it is sort of the dominant political ideology, then let's examine ways that we can improve our people collectively.
And there is a lot of things to parse from this piece of research that one of the problems that we had in the South, though, Kevin, is this.
We lost so many battles in the 50s and 60s on civil rights that a lot of Southerners developed a kind of Stockholm syndrome.
You know, if you can't beat them, join them.
Well, maybe.
But then that seems to be filtering out now.
Obviously, not too many compared to these voting statistics.
But anyway, Kevin, you were going to respond to that before Keith jumped in, and then I want to shift gears very quickly.
I'm just going to suggest that Trump is trying to do some things at the universities.
Now, he's doing it because of supposed anti-Semitism, but he is withholding funds.
He is trying to get tax exemption away from Harvard.
I mean, Harvard has a $53 billion endowment.
My God, they are extremely wealthy.
They're like a hedge firm with a university attached to it.
Yeah, that's what they've been called.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And so, but I think money is the way to do this.
And state universities would be especially susceptible to that.
Telling us walks, as I say.
Yeah, and cutting off some of these grants, the scientific, so-called scientific grants, all this leftist pseudoscience would really help.
The National Endowment for the Arts.
And I think I saw today that he was going to defund a lot of that.
The National Endowment for the Arts.
NARA.
Humanities.
Well, this is actually something that, Kevin, I'm so glad you mentioned that.
This is something that came in today that I just saw from a listener that he is going to, well, this is another executive order.
I'm so glad you mentioned it.
And I got to move quickly on this because I want you to mention the possibility for a new elite.
This is an executive order that targets NPR and PBS.
Our friend Sam Dixon is going to be upset about this because he listens to NPR a lot to see what the enemy is up to.
But this is an excerpt from the, you two, from the executive order.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's governing statute reflects principles of impartiality.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting may not contribute to or otherwise support any political party.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting fails to abide by these principles to the extent it subsidizes NPR and PBS.
Neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.
I therefore, this is Donald Trump's executive order.
I therefore instruct the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors and all executive departments and agencies to cease funding federal funding for NPR and PBS.
So, Kevin, let's use this as a pivot point here.
So, this is just an incredible executive order that was dated May 1st.
We were just talking in the last hour about Trump's executive order targeting disparate impact.
So, here we are.
I want to ask you two things.
I want to ask you two things.
Number one, maybe spend 30 seconds, maybe a minute on this, because we are at the 100-day mark of Trump's administration.
What is your grade on Trump overall?
And then, secondly, let's pivot into your vision for the possibility, at least, for a new elite.
Go.
Well, there's certainly a lot of good things that Trump is doing on DEI, you know, these things we're just talking about now.
But, of course, they'll all be litigated, and they're going to go through the courts, and it's going to take a while.
But this is something you have to do.
Birthright citizenship.
What a great thing to bring up.
Finally, we kept talking about it in his first term.
He never did it.
And I think he's gotten wise to this sort of thing.
So, I'm optimistic about Trump.
I think that this could be a sea change in American politics.
I hope it is.
I think he wants to be a transformational president.
But yeah, he's going to, those are the kinds of things.
And you talk about the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.
Those are major funding sources for universities.
I mean, and then you have, you know, National Institute of Health and all that.
And they fund all these things from transgenders and all this stuff that there's money flowing in there.
I think the result of this has been, Kevin, that he had that Agenda 25 where he basically got manned up on all of these issues and got experts in place in case he got elected.
And apparently those people have been doing a great job.
Doge is probably the bell weather of group that was put together in anticipation of winning.
And they have, I mean, they've made a big change.
Well, if Kevin McDonald's giving Trump a passing grade, people should stand up and take notice.
But again, Kevin, he's doing things that I could have never imagined that he would even recognize, much less act on.
So, and you were saying that perhaps even this could be so transformative that a new elite could emerge.
What do you mean by that?
Well, I think we saw in the last election that, first of all, there's enough money there.
I mean, I write about Jewish power and Jewish domination.
After the World War II, they became the new elite.
But, you know, you can imagine that there could be a new elite that's not Jewish and not funded by Jews.
And, you know, Elon Musk was pivotal in this last election.
$290 million he gave to Trump.
And he could have given a billion easily.
And 21 of the 25 donors to Trump of August, the big donors were not Jews.
The only one that was a really big donor for Trump was Miriam Adelson, who's a fanatic Zionist.
And Trump is certainly towing the line on Israel.
Sadly.
Singing out of her hymnboard.
Yeah, I mean, and the thing about Israel is that it's on both sides of the aisle.
And you can't, it's going to be a problem whichever.
You know what they say in Europe?
They say that the Jews like to own both sides of each coin.
If we have a conservative leadership, come on, I guarantee you'll find plenty of Jews that have become conservative.
Well, we know all that.
But again, Kevin, you're relatively high on Trump and this opportunity for a new elite to replace the elite that we know all too well.
You believe that there is a possibility that there could be positive change on that front.
Yes, well, besides money, money is the key to politics in America, as everybody knows.
And certainly Jews are aware of that.
And they fund everything, APAC and all that.
But the other key is media.
But the legacy media is declining in influence.
These people that you're talking about in the conservative side, they don't read the New York Times.
I read the New York Times, just sort of like Sam Dixon, to see what the enemy is saying.
But what they're saying is 10 articles that Dan hate Trump before the election and hasn't much stopped after the election.
It's absolute Trump derangement syndrome.
But it doesn't matter.
They are not as influential as they were.
People are not reading them.
And people are tuning into podcasts.
Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and they're going after Joe Rogan now because he's had anti-Israel people on there.
And all those people have been conservative.
He's very anti-transgender and all that kind of stuff.
And he interviewed Trump and supported him in the last election.
That was huge.
He's got all these young men.
And it's very bachelor culture.
And Trump is into that.
It's like Ultimate Fighting Championship and pro wrestling and everything.
Those things, you know, they appeal to young men.
And I think there's a much more masculine culture.
These guys are not going to be prancing around in their transgender outfits.
They're just not.
And so I'm hopeful about that.
So, you know, if you look at the media and the money, those are the two big ingredients for a new elite.
The other thing is that they're not.
They're absolutely the same thing, though.
Kevin, they're also the same thing because what I've found is that the left, if they're not lavishly funded, they're not going to come.
That's key because this defunding of the U.S. AIDS slush fund is going to dry up.
They're not people like us who have been like starving dogs doing this.
We're used to doing this all without any type of lavish funding.
And the left is just not going to show up at the ball if they don't get lavish funds.
The music is playing.
I want to tell everyone to support the tip of our spear.
And Kevin McDonald is it.
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Double trouble this hour, folks.
Coming to you, our first show in 10 weeks that has not been either March Around the World or Confederate History Month.
And we are busting the gates wide open tonight.
Still to come.
Another doctor professor who has paid the price, like our friend Kevin McDonald, Dr. Ricardo Duchesne from Canada, will be on to talk about his trials and tribulation as a tenured professor at the University of New Brunswick up there in the great white north and his brand new book, Greatness and Ruin, published by Antelope Hill.
And Antelope Hill will also be publishing Kevin McDonald's new installment of the Culture of Critique series.
This is something that we had a direct hand in.
We had a direct hand in this, and I'm very proud to say it.
Kevin had told me back around Christmas time that he was just about done writing this new revised version of the Culture of Critique, and he was going to self-publish and he was going to do all this, but he needed help with this.
And, you know, the proofreading and all of this was.
And I said, Kevin, let me just let me make a call.
And then I called him back and I said, you know, would you be okay with Antelope Hill doing this?
And I got within an hour, I had yours truly, Kevin McDonald, and Antelope Hill Publishing on a three-way call, and the rest is history.
And they have received the final manuscript, and they are in the editing and proofreading stage, and that is coming out soon.
And we're very excited about that.
But first, this is a story so nice.
We covered it twice in back-to-back weeks last week with Courtney from Alabama, whose idea it was to put forth this data and this research.
How did white men and women vote in 2024?
Brad was a huge help to her in this endeavor, and it is now everywhere.
Amran, T-O-O-O-D, UNS Review, and more.
So, Brad, I would say to that, congratulations, as you make the victory lab.
This wasn't a very important piece, I think, of research and data.
Well, thanks for having me, James.
Yeah, we worked very hard on it, and I know Courtney deserves the vast majority of the credit.
This was you and you and her got this going.
I'm just overjoyed that it got so much publicity, and everyone's talking about it, that you have Amran talking about it.
You have Occidental Observer talking about it.
And it really is a conversation that I believe that needs to be had because I think it's one of the biggest problems, I think, in our movement is that there's so much hatred for white women in some circles, constant criticism.
And I think that really needed to be put in perspective.
And that was the Let's Gride to it then on that.
And that is the fact that it would appear, and it would appear by empirical evidence, statistics, that region and yes, Christianity plays more of a role than gender nationwide with regards to how white men and women vote.
And by the way, by the way, I mean, Trump only received about 60% of the white vote.
Okay, that's men and women combined.
It was in the low 60%, you know, 61%, 62%.
Now, of course, because whites are still the majority to such an extent that they can negate the Hispanics and the blacks, who are at 13%, but still, I mean, white men left a lot on the table, too.
Let that be said loud and clear.
I mean, I absolutely agree.
I mean, there are obviously, you know, psychological differences between men and women.
But the question is, is whether that is as great as cultural differences, regional differences, differences in education.
I think you and Dr. McDonald got into a lot of that.
But I mean, to me, I mean, it's just absolutely crystal clear that culture and education are the real story here.
And that was seen in the article.
I mean, one thing that we covered is that support for Trump among white women in states like Alabama, Mississippi, I think Georgia was the other one, exceeded 80%.
And in some states, right here in Alabama, the white women actually outvoted the men.
But on places like the West Coast, you know, it wasn't even, even white men didn't even vote 50% for Trump.
So what's that white?
If whites had voted like every other race, well, and the Hispanics, of course, broke pretty substantially this year.
And a lot of white, I think Hispanic men, a little bit over 50% for Trump.
Hispanic women, much lower.
Blacks, obviously, almost overwhelmingly, almost universally, for Kamala.
But if whites voted like blacks, I mean, it wouldn't even be a problem.
But you got a lot of white men who are not doing their duty either.
Keith, very quickly.
Yeah, I was going to say this.
Do you think that this disparity regionally indicates that we really do need to have secession?
Because we talked about that last week.
By the way, Courtney was wrapping up our Confederate History Month coverage last week, and this was, yes, I mean, if you have a culture that is fundamentally different from your geographical surroundings, that is the prerequisite and the first one for independent nation-states.
Well, here's a, we were talking about this during the break, but here's a new poll out that I haven't mentioned on my website that really just crystallizes, I think, the discussion you've had so far.
So it's been 100 days of Trump, right?
And nothing has really changed according to this poll.
This is a pupil since the election.
And the people found that by 70 point over a 70-point margin, white evangelical Protestants support Trump and after 100 days, right?
Now, if you look at whites with no religion, it's 70% in the opposite direction.
And that by 70-point margin, whites who are irreligious disapprove of Trump.
So, I mean, right there, that's what you call polarization in America.
Now, as to secession and the question of whether the South has a separate identity, of course.
And it's because of this gap that there's two Americas that live in totally different universes and see things completely differently.
And I believe, yeah, yeah, it's Protestant on the one hand and it's irreligious on the other, with Catholics more mixed, but like leaning more towards the Protestant side.
This is something I wanted to get into.
This is it, Brad.
So we have a lot of friends who are not practicing Christians or non-believers, but are certainly very much respectful for the Christian ethics.
The faith that gave birth to the West in many ways.
And if people are thinking, are you talking about this guest or that guest?
I'm not talking about anyone who's appeared on this program in terms of the anti-Christian bit that we see on online and on social media coming from ostensibly white activists.
I mean, I think I have what we used to call C&E Christians, Christmas and Easter, but they're not anti-Christian the way that the left coast and the northeast are.
All right, but that's not it.
But I mean, I see what you're saying, but what I'm saying is if Christianity did not exist on this continent, what would the country look like?
And would that be better for white interests?
That's the question.
I mean, it's amazing you'd even have to ask a question like that.
I mean, if you want to know, if you want to have a glimpse of what the country would look like without, let's say we subtracted just one group, white evangelical Protestants, right?
That's at least what, over a third of Trump's voters, his base.
The whole country shifts dramatically.
Arkansas would be in play, you know, if that group disappeared.
So The people who go on about Christianity, I just don't understand it.
Like, if you look at people who are right-wing in this country, right?
Well, the right is over half of people on the right are Protestant.
It's over 80% who are Christian.
And of the people who are irreligious who are on the right, they're the ones who are the most moderate.
So avowed atheists, avowed atheists who are outspokenly pro-white are very much a tiny outlier.
And to say the least, I'm not talking about, again, I'm not talking about people who are honest and good people who value white Western Christian civilization, but who are not practicing Christians.
I work with these people all the time.
I respect them, and they are my friends, and I'll close ranks with them.
So, you know, I'm not talking about anyone who's even appeared on the program before, but you see them, again, as I said, on social media.
And again, what does the country look like?
Much, much worse, frankly, Brad.
The fall of our nations throughout the Western world has coincided with the turn from Christianity.
And I know all about the pitfalls of the modern churches.
We talk about that all the time.
But still, but still, if it were not for the faith-based voters in this country, you would have that because there are very few atheists who are pro-white.
I mean, very few.
Single-digits.
Right, right, right.
A lot of these people who are so critical of Christianity, I mean, the problem is they don't see themselves as outliers, right?
Not just outlier, but an extreme outlier.
Whereas maybe one out of every 100 atheists who are white, you know, end up into far-right politics.
The other 99% of the people.
That makes a lot of noise, though.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Do you believe that it would be possible that atheists could lead a pro-white movement to success?
Some people will say that, oh, look in Europe, you know, look at Germany.
The best way I could put that case is some people will say that, well, the AFD is based in East Germany, and East Germany's the atheist portion of Germany.
But, you know, even is AFD even like as radical as the Trump's Republican Party?
I don't think so.
Like, not even close.
Their leader is a lesbian, a lesbian who's in an interracial relationship.
So I'm not very impressed, to put it mildly.
I don't think so.
All right.
So you wrote this, Brad.
You wrote this on occidentaldescent.com.
It has gotten to the point where non-white evangelicals are breaking non-white.
Non-white evangelicals are breaking 50-50 for Trump.
Liptards are bleeding support among non-white working class voters because their insane secular cultural values keep undermining their race replacement political strategy.
They are making the mistakes we would want them to make.
Yes, that's what it says.
That's exactly the paradox I brought up.
All these people were brought into the country.
It's true to replace the white conservative population.
But what they didn't bank on is that their extreme cultural views would be so toxic, it would alienate even the rising non-white majority, especially Hispanics, Asians, even blacks now.
Like, for example, I'm in Georgia right now, and According to that study that just came out, half of black evangelicals in a state like Georgia voted for Trump.
That is, I can't believe it, right?
I'll have to check that again.
I mean, I guess the transgender stuff, I guess, I guess.
But you think that that's what made a big difference in Georgia flipping back to Trump this time?
Oh, yeah, definitely, because he picked up a lot of support amongst the country's becoming more polarized on religion and culture.
And it's over the last 10 or 15 years, it's become less racially polarized.
And that's mainly because secular whites have these extreme views.
Now, we hear all the time about how women are the problem.
And getting back to the focus of the article, but it's actually, we know it's white women who are irreligious, white women who are college educated.
You go to a place like Mississippi, you look at fundamentalist Baptist and rural areas and who go to church every weekend.
It's like, what, 99% of them voted for Trump?
It depends.
Everything turns on culture and religion.
Your research and Courtney's research just paired so perfectly with that cooperative survey that dropped at the exact same time.
Very quick, Keith.
Well, you know, the idea that if you go to college, you're going to be not a Christian.
You know, that certainly doesn't apply in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee.
We shared those statistics in the last hour, the last half hour with Kevin.
The thing is, we've got to understand that, you know, why do people that are irreligious keep getting pushed to the forefront by the media as being spokesmen for our positions?
Because they're not.
They are out.
Who are we talking about?
Laura Loomer, Joe Rogan, people like this.
All right, all right.
That's a good answer.
That's a good answer.
I was wondering who you were talking about.
You answered it.
So there's that, Brad.
Yeah, I mean, like, well, one of the things that was revealing that I think from the article was, you know, the finding that it's even like on the West Coast, there's not really that much difference between white men and women.
The white women there are liberal because the white men are liberal.
And in the Northeast was the only real exception where states like Rhode Island, for example, where there was a real big swing amongst white women, whereas, you know, more white men voted for Trump and white women voted for Harris in opposite directions.
That seems to be like a very regional thing.
Otherwise, it's into the track.
And some people have suggested that perhaps, we'll never know if this is true.
This is anecdotal.
But in states like Massachusetts, where you know in advance the Republicans are never going to win, some right-thinking people just stay home.
They don't even bother to go out and vote because they know it's not in play.
There could be some of that.
But let me ask you this, Brad.
The biggest takeaway.
So this is, again, Courtney and Brad teaming up.
How did white men and women vote in 2024?
It has been all around the internet, and by this point, has received tens of thousands of views on all of the sites that have posted it.
And happy to do our part here at TPC to make sure that it did get some of that coverage.
It would have made an impact no matter what.
But always happy to assist.
The biggest takeaways from this data that you and Courtney compiled, I likened you to a miner last week, Brad, not a M-I-N-O-R, but an M-I-N-E-R.
If you put a hard hat on you and give you a pickaxe and send you into a data mine, we're all going to be rich.
So the biggest takeaways from this research and what issues, this is, I think, the most important question.
What issues did this article raise or settle that other people weren't really looking at?
I think I think there's a lot of, you know, people blame, you know, white women for, you know, Trump losing or Trump winning or everything is the problem of white women when actually, you know, the more you dig down into it, you see it's religion, it's culture, education.
And that's true.
That's true of, I mean, it's very important to emphasize.
This is true of men as well, right?
You look at how did white atheists, men on the West Coast vote, like overwhelmingly, you know, for Kamala.
It wasn't like white men were 90% for Trump and white women were 52%.
I mean, white men did not do their part either.
Now, it is true that in 47 states, white women voted a little bit less.
But I think, again, putting the spotlight, as you did, and as Courtney did, putting the spotlight on cultural.
And, I mean, how do you separate one's faith?
How do you separate Christianity in the South from the culture of the South?
I mean, one forms the other.
Again, so was it faith?
Was it culture?
How do you answer that?
Well, in my section of the article, one thing I wanted to do is I wanted to look at how white evangelical Protestants, people who are, you know, like Baptists or who live outside the South to see how they voted, right?
To see if it was cultural or it was regional.
But one thing I found is in states like Colorado, Oregon, Washington, no, no, white evangelical Protestants voted overwhelmingly for Trump there, too.
Maybe not as pronounced as in the South, but in the 60s and the 70s.
So if it was just white evangelical Protestants in Oregon or Colorado voting, then those states would be solid red states.
They're not because of the number of irreligious people who live there who are white.
That's the issue.
Well, the interior west is more like the south.
I think there are a lot of refugees from Reconstruction that settled that way because if you look at these old movies, all the Westerners had Southern accents.
But Courtney mentions that.
And then, of course, Colorado, contemporary Colorado, was the first state to legalize marijuana.
And so you've got a lot of refugees from California show up.
We got some criticism about transplants.
And it's like, I can't think of anyone who knows more and takes about transplants than Courtney.
I mean, of course, we acknowledge that transplants are, you know, that's true everywhere.
Well, I mean, it's true in Colorado.
But it didn't, but there were no transplants.
And there are good people from blue states who have moved to the South since COVID.
There's no doubt about that.
And that's known, but it didn't.
There's not a single red state in the South that turned red because of these transplants.
No, no.
No.
The transplants have made everything more purplish or, you know, it's the same as you said.
The states with the fewest transplants are the ones, you know, where, you know, it's, you know, overwhelming, like Alabama, Mississippi, whatever.
Well, you know, Louisiana.
Exactly, exactly, because they've both been mostly moving to Texas and Florida and, you know, to a lesser extent.
North Carolina and Tennessee, you have Tennessee and North Carolina.
But they're all red, and they were red before, and they're still red now.
But now, this is something that you have pointed out first, Brad.
You were at least the first that I ever saw pointed out, is that when the new census comes out, people are saying, you know, this, this, this, and this.
But when the new census comes out and you get the electoral vote realignment, a lot of these southern states are going to gain strength in the Electoral College, and the blue states are going to lose it because of this mass exodus.
So that's going to be interesting.
Yeah, yes.
In 2032, it's projected that Democrat could, you know, win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan and still lose.
And another thing that's even more telling and shocking to me is, like, we were talking about how things are becoming more polarized across religious lines and that, you know, black Protestants, Hispanic Protestants, or even non-white Catholics, you know, are voting more Republican.
So I thought, you know, for sure, states like Georgia would be gone.
But if, you know, that changes and, you know, it comes down from, you know, blacks voting not something crazy like black women voting like 96 percent Democrat, you know, that could it could you know the future couldn't be completely the opposite of what we thought it would be you know with a permanent Democrat majority is completely vanished.
Hey, get into church, folks.
Yeah, I agree.
And I said that, Brad.
You know how I plagiarize.
I don't plagiarize like Martin Luther King because he never gave attribution.
I always say, you know, this is Brad's idea.
And last week, last week in Michigan, I was quoting you, Brad, with attribution, of course.
And I mentioned this.
And I mentioned this about this realignment that's going to come.
And, of course, mentioned my past in the church and some questions in the QA came up about that.
And they said, you know, one of the comments was, let's make going to church Christian again.
But I think.
If anybody has a reason not to go to the official church, it would be James after what happened.
I love James.
But he is a Christian, regardless of whether that church denomination is or not.
Well, I mean, we all close ranks with the people in the pews, not the head table.
And so anyway, Brad, this is just an astonishing and wonderful thing that you and Courtney have done.
It has really shined a spotlight on issues that people were all too quick to dismiss.
Women are the ones bringing people down.
No, no, no.
It is lack of Christian faith.
It is lack of, you know, there's cultural differences between the regions that make up America.
White men could do a lot better too.
It has been everywhere the last two weeks.
That is why, or the last week, that's why we've covered it two weeks in a row.
Brad, thank you so much.
OccidentalDescent.com.
Final word to you, Brad.
The music's playing.
We've got about 15 seconds before we go to Ricardo Duchesne in the third hour.
Last word to you, my friend.
Well, I would just say that, you know, I think there's kind of a consensus here that with Dr. McDonald that, you know, religion, education, culture, you know, it's very important.
So it's not really much to this year in the morning.
They parse it well, Brad and Courtney do, in this article, How Did White Men and Women Vote in 2024?
Courtney from Alabama.
Brad Griffin asked Hunter Wallace in this article, all over the place, two weeks in a row here on TPC.