One battle the Confederate flag is still winning
By John Blake, CNN
Updated 4:59 PM ET, Sat July 11, 2015
... The Old South didn't just give the nation the Confederate flag, "Gone with the Wind" and mint juleps. Its leaders refined the practice of exploiting workers, busting unions and being stingy with investments in public services. Each tactic was designed to create a desperate and powerless workforce that could be exploited by Northern and overseas businesses, Lind and other historians say.
White supremacy was never the driving force behind Southernomics -- then or now. Greed and class domination were, says Lind, a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, a left-leaning think-tank, and a contributor to POLITICO magazine.
"You have to address race, but you can't address race only," Lind says of the flag debate. "You have to address class and the economic system. Even if you got rid of racism, the Southern economic model still exists. It's unchanged" ...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/us/conderate-flag-southern-economics/
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