True. But somehow I picture the South as the bulging beer gut of America. (I'm sorry to offend anybody -- it's just the image I get when I think of the swelling population of Southern states vs the North.
IтАЩll likely offend when I say that trailer trash have MAGAt sensibilities, gullible and admiring of pseudo elites. But they are useful to the ones who want votes, or ones who can intimidate voters when needed. That beer gut thing is likely true too.
I have traveled to 49 states and many foreign countries. On rare occasion I have gone to a place I truly don't wish to return to.
But when it comes to politics, the MAGAs and white Christian nationalists are drive by hate, anger, resentment and misinformation. These all breed fear.
Some of the kindest and warmest people I have met are in the deep South. They are terrified of most Democrats because of the lies they are told in church and by their politicians.
I get hung up on politics and the future of democracy when I read HCRs column and this comment section, but in reality, most Americans don't give a rip or pay attention.
As Americans, we have so much in common with most people -- unfortunately politics is incredibly divisive and it seems like people in certain parts of the country are bad.
There are a multitude of organizations and people in the South dedicated to righting wrongs from the past, theyтАЩre brilliant in mind and generous in spirit. Here are just two examples, check them out: www.eji.org/about AND www.opdla.org Montgomery, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana have set the bar high for what can be done to make the world a better place.
And, since 1971, the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center. Based in Montgomery. Offices in Atlanta, Tallahassee, Miami, New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi.
As in Every state, there are the pluses and minuses. Today, the preponderance of minuses are in the South. But hate has legs, beware everywhere.
I find that there is a concurrent majority within the South that is probably more liberal than most of the North. Think Jimmy Carter.
My home town in Pennsyltucky is more reactionary than most places in the South.
Pockets galore, I have lived it.
True. But somehow I picture the South as the bulging beer gut of America. (I'm sorry to offend anybody -- it's just the image I get when I think of the swelling population of Southern states vs the North.
IтАЩll likely offend when I say that trailer trash have MAGAt sensibilities, gullible and admiring of pseudo elites. But they are useful to the ones who want votes, or ones who can intimidate voters when needed. That beer gut thing is likely true too.
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I have traveled to 49 states and many foreign countries. On rare occasion I have gone to a place I truly don't wish to return to.
But when it comes to politics, the MAGAs and white Christian nationalists are drive by hate, anger, resentment and misinformation. These all breed fear.
Some of the kindest and warmest people I have met are in the deep South. They are terrified of most Democrats because of the lies they are told in church and by their politicians.
I get hung up on politics and the future of democracy when I read HCRs column and this comment section, but in reality, most Americans don't give a rip or pay attention.
As Americans, we have so much in common with most people -- unfortunately politics is incredibly divisive and it seems like people in certain parts of the country are bad.
There are a multitude of organizations and people in the South dedicated to righting wrongs from the past, theyтАЩre brilliant in mind and generous in spirit. Here are just two examples, check them out: www.eji.org/about AND www.opdla.org Montgomery, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana have set the bar high for what can be done to make the world a better place.
And, since 1971, the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center. Based in Montgomery. Offices in Atlanta, Tallahassee, Miami, New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi.