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The South The Birthers and the Democrats
A Tip for The GOP: Look Away
By Kathleen Parker
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
"...Whatever Voinovich's sound effects were intended to convey, his meaning was clear enough: Those ignorant, right-wing, Bible-thumping rednecks are ruining the party.
Alas, Voinovich was not entirely wrong.
Not all Southern Republicans are wing nuts. Nor does the GOP have a monopoly on ignorance or racism. And, the South, for all its sins, is also lush with beauty, grace and mystery. Nevertheless, it is true that the GOP is fast becoming regionalized below the Mason-Dixon line and increasingly associated with some of the South's worst ideas....
...What the GOP is experiencing now, one hopes, are the death throes of that 50-year spell that Johnson foretold. But before the party of the Great Emancipator can rise again, Republicans will have to face their inner Voinovich and drive a stake through the heart of old Dixie..."
Full article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/04/AR2009080402424.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
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Kathleen Parker is one of the less rabid of right wing columnists. this evening's interview by Chris Matthews was also informative. She was asked to her explanation for the aggregation of the great majority of the Birthers etc almost exclusively in the Southeastern states. "One word, Confederacy."
The price the south has paid and is paying for holding onto the ideals of the Confederacy is tragic. Parker also cites a New Yorker article by Packer last year that is a masterpiece of description of the Southern Strategy that has gotten the country to this place.
It almost convinces me the tortured Southern Democrats perhaps do not deserve all the opprobrium I have sent their way. The Paker article may be found here. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_packer
http://groups.google.com/group/talking-stick-news/browse_thread/thread/e
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