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2016 Postmortem

Third Doctor

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20. I agree totally.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #13)

Tue Jan 15, 2013, 01:49 PM

Jan 2013

I've had to do three times the work that I used to for less pay and no benefits or job security. And it's like people around here think that's okay?!! My dad worked at a plant making a good wage for 30 years but those days are long gone.

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SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: a large historical shift is under way [View all] DonViejo Jan 2013 OP

The Union should never have abandoned Reconstruction and allowed Jim Crow, even if the South leveymg Jan 2013 #1

The Reconstruction went all wrong. Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #2

I read the history books a little differently. leveymg Jan 2013 #8

+++1 patrice Jan 2013 #3

All the planters should have been executed and the land redistributed... Odin2005 Jan 2013 #16

Executed? Even li'l old me? leveymg Jan 2013 #17

great point, Reconstruction stop, stopped social progress in its tracks.South 'reenslaved' the free Sunlei Jan 2013 #19

This is all well and good, but what's the solution? According to the article... Moonwalk Jan 2013 #4

What do we do? We wait, because the South (and America) is CHANGING Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #6

thanks for the laugh nt msongs Jan 2013 #9

The South is changing RobertEarl Jan 2013 #11

Well. The article does close with the suggestion that the South should reclaim traits that patrice Jan 2013 #7

The south is not "courteous" at it's core. Dawson Leery Jan 2013 #15

So a "pinko" is now a just right of center Republican? yellowcanine Jan 2013 #5

How can you say *anything* about the South without talking about poverty? starroute Jan 2013 #10

The article mentioned the South's aversion to unionization. Aristus Jan 2013 #13

I agree totally. Third Doctor Jan 2013 #20

kick samsingh Jan 2013 #12

Lincoln's great error! Dawson Leery Jan 2013 #14

DeNazification? leveymg Jan 2013 #18

It's a fair comparison. Dawson Leery Jan 2013 #21

The Nazis learned much of their "race theory" from the American eugenics movement leveymg Jan 2013 #22