What Katrina still reveals about Dixie.
Every election, there are the old "why don;t we saw off Dixie" posts, usually done by some pundit safe and warm in California or a New York coffee house. However, as Bush and Obama both land in new Orleans, I offer you something to think about.
In the South, there has been, and will be, an adversarial relationship between the rural (who are GOP) and the cities, which are now mostly Democrat. When you check every electoral map, you will find the cities are SOLID blue. Name any city in the South, from Miami, to Houston, to Charleston, to New Orleans, to Atlanta, and you will find solid, solid blue. However, in all the states, the power is based in the rural areas, and part of the rural areas job is to denigrate cities as much as possible.
That is why when New Orleans was washed away, you had people cheer that god had done what they wished to do.
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And as the page above describes, what little public housing was left was often replaced by condos, meant to attract people less like the original residents, in other words, social engineering.
That is also why, to this VERY day, the Bobby Jindals and others try to hinder rebuilding, hoping eminent domain will let them remake the city in their image. Right now, the second oldest hospital in America, Charity Hospital, is condemned, because LSU (aka Baton Rogue, aka Bobby's playground) wants to rebuild a huge medical center over it, and oddly enough, away from the inner city. HMM MM.
Of course, some Northern readers will go "OK, if they liberals down there don't like it, why don't they riot. That is where I point them towards Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston, and a few other cities that sadly have been way too numerous to mention. People do protest, and get shot, and have the full force of the militia (yes, they are not just cops anymore) turned, and yes, the best we get from this big Democratic party that supposedly wants to win in the South is whatever milquetoast, winking at GOP friends, half hearted crap that Debbie Wasserman Schultz and those you know she is trying to help offer.
To sum, the South is not a monolith, and in many , many ways, the Civil War is still ablaze here, Appomattox be damned!
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