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In reply to the discussion: Dixie's long reign of terror has finally ended. [View all]Barack_America
(28,876 posts)27. OK, I'll say it. It is true that there are many excellent progressives in the South...
...And it is also true that the South has fucked up our nation's politics for far too long.
I generally do not understand the common DU argument of, "hey, don't say anything negative about the South because I live everyday with all of the fucked up people in the South". I have tremendous respect for progressives living in the South. I truly don't think I could handle it. I can understand the frustration when people suggest the Civil War was a mistake and secession should have been allowed to stand. But I don't understand criticisms of a post like the OP. Southern Progressives should understand the OP's point particularly, because he is highlighting what they have been fighting against.
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Superb analysis and writing. It took an African American to drive a stake
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#6
I think you are calling southerners racists as if racism does not exist in the rest of the country.
Tennessee Gal
Nov 2012
#25
270 is irrelevant to FDR's era because the total number of electors was 531?
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2012
#31
OK, I'll say it. It is true that there are many excellent progressives in the South...
Barack_America
Nov 2012
#27
It's not the message that one disagrees with, it's the patronizing tone.
Tommy_Carcetti
Nov 2012
#45