The South was never properly reconstructed. We got rid of legal slavery, granted the right to vote, and then fucked off back to the North. That’s why the South is the butt of every joke about education, poverty, and provincialism. And those factors combine to make it a breeding ground for those ideologies.
And the South is Trump’s powerbase. It’s where he gets all his ICE agents, his grip on the Senate, House, and EC, etc.
The South is also the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the part of the country with the highest percentage of black population.
It’s easy for folks in places like Minnesota to pretend they aren’t racist when they barely ever interact with people of other races to begin with.
Make no mistake: it’s rural people in all states who are bigots, not southerners. The only reason states in the south are still “red” is that they tend to have slightly higher percentages of rural populations than blue states do.
The South was never properly reconstructed. We got rid of legal slavery, granted the right to vote, and then fucked off back to the North. That’s why the South is the butt of every joke about education, poverty, and provincialism. And those factors combine to make it a breeding ground for those ideologies.
And the South is Trump’s powerbase. It’s where he gets all his ICE agents, his grip on the Senate, House, and EC, etc.
Yeah. We should have finished the job there and de-KKK’ed the South like they did denazification in Germany.
Certainly we should have known things were way off course when they were allowed to put up statues of traitors to this country.
We did finish the job. At least as much as Germany was denazified.
“Germany lost the second world war, but fascism won it.”
-George Carlin
The South is also the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the part of the country with the highest percentage of black population.
It’s easy for folks in places like Minnesota to pretend they aren’t racist when they barely ever interact with people of other races to begin with.
Make no mistake: it’s rural people in all states who are bigots, not southerners. The only reason states in the south are still “red” is that they tend to have slightly higher percentages of rural populations than blue states do.
Out of necessity? And that’s hardly a positive achievement.