Reply #76: The South is beautiful

[1gobluedem]

And its history is fascinating. There are hundreds of thousands of good people there.

As a Michigander, though, it's hard for me to get past the southern senators and representatives who were so willing to throw the domestic auto industry away with nary a thought for the millions of people who would lose their jobs and the complete and utter devastation it would wreak on Michigan. The same people who embraced the right to work concept and enthusiastically welcomed import auto factories who actively union bust. I have a good friend who works for the UAW who spent three weeks in the south helping to try to organize one of the import factories. The fear their workers live in -- of even reading UAW material -- is disgusting. And its repeated across every import auto factory. The southern legislators are in cahoots with them to union bust, drag down wages, and dissolve the working middle class and I have a very hard time with that.

Kudos to you for your efforts to turn the south blue. I wish you well but you've got a very tough row to hoe.