Ive been saying for years that the Southern albatross around our national neck wields entirely too much power over our national priorities... For example, Wyoming... a state with 582,658 people has 66 times more representation in the Senate than the 38.33 million Californian voters. Until they finally secede (God willing), the Democratic Party needs to stop compromising the principles that built the American middle class in the first place... and leave the South alone to play with their guns and wait for the rapture. Michael Tomasky wrore for the Daily Beast, Trying to win Southern seats is not worth the ideological cost for Democrats. As Memphis Rep. Steve Cohen recently told my colleague Ben Jacobs, the Democratic Party cannot (and I’d say should not) try to calibrate its positions to placate Southern mores: “It’s come to pass, and really a lot of white Southerners vote on gays and guns and God, and we’re not going to ever be too good on gays and guns and God.... ...It’s lost. It’s gone. A different country. And maybe someday it really should be. I’ll save that for another column. Until that day comes, the Democratic Party shouldn’t bother trying. If they get no votes from the region, they will in turn owe it nothing, and in time the South, which is the biggest welfare moocher in the world in terms of the largesse it gets from the more advanced and innovative states, will be on its own, which is what Southerners always say they want anyway. What do you think?
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:14:00 +0000
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