Reply #59: If it doesn't apply to you, [View All]

[reichstag911]

then why let it bother you? After all, who am I to you? It was, as you now seem to get, a throwaway line. The people to whom it does apply (and you would have to concede that there are many poor, ignorant red state voters -- maybe enough to have made the difference in the election -- who live in what we in Midwestern/Northern/Northeastern, urban America would consider substandard housing) are nowhere to be found on DU. Besides which, the legacy of the South is not a proud one to any but the most parochial or deluded. When the majority of the South adheres to genuine humanistic values, rather than the economic or superstitious dogma to which they now adhere, then the South will have something of which it can be proud.

We are where we are in large part because of the racist appeal of the repugs' "Southern strategy," which they've followed assiduously since Nixon. Add to that the faux Christianity of Bush to rope in the Rapture crowd, and it's a tough flock to outnumber. NCLB isn't going to educate the ignorant out of the Dark Ages, either, when it's drastically underfunded.

And, yes, I understand it extends well beyond the South, but this thread is about the South, not any fringe group in Montana, Utah, Idaho, etc. They are majority moron states (aka red), also, I concede, whose mouths are firmly attached to the public teat while they whine about welfare recipients among the less fortunate.