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I like how Daily Kos is breaking down their commissioned opinion polls by region lately. I wish they'd go further and get the numbers for Deep South whites (LA, AL, MS, GA, SC ... maybe Arkansas and Tenn.?). Time to focus this scorn.
Also time to be less scared of these people: they're in an electoral ghetto. Obama had uselessly redundant support in much of the Northeast, but the cracker vote is even more concentrated. Something to be happy about, though it doesn't make up for their disproportionate influence in the Senate - that original, racist sin of our Republic that it's now a technical impossibility to redress.
Just like I sometimes think about how much better our history and present would be if just one of the Deep South states had disappeared down a hole, c. 1800 or 1850 or 1990 or absolutely any other year, I also wonder what things would have been like with proportional Senate representation. Would that be all it would take to bring us to the level of our peer nations, in all of which Country was long ago tamed by City?
Also time to be less scared of these people: they're in an electoral ghetto. Obama had uselessly redundant support in much of the Northeast, but the cracker vote is even more concentrated. Something to be happy about, though it doesn't make up for their disproportionate influence in the Senate - that original, racist sin of our Republic that it's now a technical impossibility to redress.
Just like I sometimes think about how much better our history and present would be if just one of the Deep South states had disappeared down a hole, c. 1800 or 1850 or 1990 or absolutely any other year, I also wonder what things would have been like with proportional Senate representation. Would that be all it would take to bring us to the level of our peer nations, in all of which Country was long ago tamed by City?