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Monday, October 29. 2007

The moral success of the "Southern Strategy": It got rid of the Segregationist Dems

Racial hatred does not arise spontaneously.  It is cultivated by political leaders seeking to use it for their own purposes.  The divorce of white Southerners from the political leaders who kept them dependent on Democrats to continue segregation has changed an ugly socio-political dynamic dating back to the foundations of the United States.  This does not mean that racism has been eliminated-far from it.  But Bobby Jindal's election is the latest evidence of the transformation -- in a single generation -- of what had been the voting block of reaction and racism through all preceding American history. The Republican southern strategy has produced one of the greatest victories ever won for the cause of civil rights in America.    
Read the whole thing - Bobby Jindal and the Southern Strategy, at Am. Thinker
Posted by The News Junkie in Politics at 07:09 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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8% ..that means there's gonna be a good many former blog owners coming right up.

Well there's a developing teacher shortage anyway.
#1 Habu on 2007-10-29 10:40 (Reply)
what is a 'developing teacher' --an instructor at a photography school?
:-D

But seriously, the Jindal election is HUGE in implication--and it's all good. Best of all, Jindal is a mensch--
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-10-29 13:19 (Reply)

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