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Blue Nation Review

So true... so so true...

(via our friends at Conservatives Are Destroying Our Future)

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Yep, the REAL welfare queens!

Middleboro Review

 

Blue Nation Review

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Institute for Southern Studies and Salon shared a link.

Rise of the paranoid South: How defending against “outsiders” brought the region together

Throughout history, the region has always coalesced politically. Here's what really accounts for the unity

SALON.COM

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  Institute for Southern Studies

  December 18 at 9:31am · 

  "The Republican South is, for all intents and purposes, the white South, and race is an issue that always simmers below its political surface. GOP dominance speaks to the white South’s need to protect itself from a host of nefarious outsiders. In this past, those outsiders consisted of blacks, abolitionists, Yankees and Republicans. These days, those groups have been replaced by liberals, gays, atheists, minorities and Barack Obama, who symbolizes a changing America that threatens the white South’s cultural clout. In response, the solid Republican South has mounted a defense against these outside threats via shady redistricting that curtails black political representation and by passing voter suppression laws that disenfranchise minorities who support the Democratic Party."

Salon

December 17 at 8:15am · 

"Until the unique power of the white South is curtailed, the echo of Southern exceptionalism will continue to reverberate like the Rebel yell across the American political landscape..."

US Uncut

Thanks to Worley Dervish