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    Hispanics don't vote. If they did, TX would already be Dem.
    Look up gerrymandering.

    Texas has made this into an art form.

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    Look up gerrymandering.

    Texas has made this into an art form.
    Progressives/Latinos should sue TX for the gerrymandering. I'm sure DoJ will go along.

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    Progressives/Latinos should sue TX for the gerrymandering. I'm sure DoJ will go along.
    Texas has already been told by the Supreme Court to redraw. So new maps with a Rep. bend are drawn. Texas Rep. are waiting for the 5th part of the Voting Rights act to be struck down by the Supreme Court so they won't have to keep manufacturing unfair voting districts maps. They will just redraw unfair maps that get rejected.

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    Why The GOP Won’t Let Congress Fix The Voting Rights Act


    “Ain’t gonna happen,” Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) said late last week

    Republicans have little to gain and a lot to lose politically if they cooperate.

    Attempting to fix the law would require Republicans to give public scrutiny to racial disparity in the party’s geographic base. And it would require backtracking on years of political rhetoric warning of federal government overreach and downplaying racial inequality.

    More specifically, the jurisdictions likely to be included in any new preclearance formula comprise regions of the country that are dominated by conservatives. These are the places where attempts at voter discrimination are most common, and therefore subject to greater scrutiny.

    A more cynical reason is Republicans recognize that without Section 4, their state and local colleagues have greater flexibility to enact laws that make it harder for minority groups like blacks and Hispanics, who disproportionately support Democrats, to vote. Such efforts to expand voter ID laws are already underway in Texas and North Carolina. It also gives states more flexibility to gerrymander maps in a way that alienate minorities.

    Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recognized this fatal problem immediately after the Supreme Court’s ruling, warning that “[a]s long as Republicans have a majority in the House and Democrats don’t have 60 votes in the Senate, there will be no preclearance.”

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...rights-act.php

    So hypocritically Cons ution-adoring Repugs, always so strong and tough on law enforcement (esp on blacks and browns), are free to blacks and browns out of their voting rights.


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    criminal Repug Nixon and A er were brilliant politicians, recruiting Confederate racists into Repug party. Then add in all the racist rednecks and rural bubbas from non-Confederate states, and you have the Repug BASE.

    And the KKK and white supremacy parties, militia don't vote Democratic!

    How Southern Slavery Turns White People Into Republicans 150 Years Later

    Drawing on a sample of more than 39,000 southern whites, we show that whites who currently live in counties that had high concentrations of slaves in 1860 are on average more conservative and express colder feelings towards African Americans than whites who live elsewhere in the South.

    That is, the larger the number of slaves in his or her county of residence in 1860, the greater the probability that a white Southerner today will identify as a Republican, express opposition to race-coded policies such as affirmative action, and express greater racial resentment towards African Americans.

    We show that these differences are robust to a variety of factors, including geography and mid-19th century economic conditions and political at udes. We also show that our results strengthen when we instrument for the prevalence of slavery using local measures of the agricultural suitability to grow cotton.

    In fact, our findings indicate that in the counterfactual world where the South had no slaves in 1860, the political views of white Southerners today would be indistinguishable from those of similarly situated white Northerners.

    http://www.alternet.org/how-southern...tter893942&t=9



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    tea bagger hero comes out blatantly racist

    Ted Cruz: 'We Need 100 More Like Jesse Helms' In The Senate

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3909610.html

    you racists are too damn politically correct, more like just chicken , to out yourselves as racists.

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    Fox News host: new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, doesn’t ‘represent American values’

    “Well they just picked a Muslim for Miss America. That must’ve made Obama happy. Maybe he had a vote,” said one user.

    “I am literally soo mad right now a ARAB won. #MissAmerica” wrote another.


    But according to Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes, the American-born Davuluri doesn’t “represent American values,” unlike the blonde-haired, blue-eyed contestant from Kansas, Theresa Vail.


    This is not to say that Vail isn’t an unprecedented contestant in her own right: she’s spent five years in the Kansas Army National Guard and is double-majoring in chemistry and Chinese at Kansas State University. But, according to Starnes on Facebook, she lost because “the liberal Miss America judges were not interested in a gun-toting, deer-hunting, military veteran.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/1...erican-values/



    We're not racists, but ....

    Mort 's Fox Repug Racist Propaganda network ain't too subtle in its dog whistling.

    ( Will black voters be persuaded ( fooled ) to vote Repug because Fox Repug network now has added LOTS of black talking heads? aka reachout )




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    Republicans And Race: The GOP’s Frayed Relationship With African-Americans, 1945-1974

    “Since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has attracted more than 15 percent of the black electorate, and few GOP candidates for other offices have fared much better.”

    for this fractured relationship between the GOP and African-Americans — an increasingly politically active demographic — the excerpt here is his postscript to years of research. Thirty years of conservative policy brought the U.S. to the election of its first African-American president.

    The gulf between blacks and the GOP grew even more pronounced when Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) became the first African American president. Obama tried to downplay race and enfold blacks’ concerns within a universalist framework. That approach reflected his personality and ideology, but it also stemmed from a political calculation that whites resented overt attempts to aid blacks. “Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan coalition,” Obama observed. Indeed, surveys showed that whites opposed efforts targeted at blacks and were much more likely than blacks to believe that racial equality had been achieved.

    After expanding debt greatly during the Bush years, Republicans now preached an urgent need for austerity. Obama and the Democrats, they alleged, were driving the nation to fiscal ruin through profligate spending. Republicans demanded tax cuts (primarily for the wealthy), deep budget cuts for social welfare programs, and repeal of much of Obama’s health care initiative. Blacks, who were twice as likely as whites to support Obama’s health program, saw the GOP as a direct threat to their economic well-being.

    Racial polarization was evident in other respects. Sizable percentages of Republican voters believe that Obama had not been born in the United States, was a Muslim, and favored socialism. They were also likely to think that Obama was taking their tax dollars and redistributing them to undeserving blacks and other nonwhites. A majority of Republicans responding to a 2010 poll thought that discrimination against whites was just as significant as that suffered by nonwhites. A Congressional Republicans usually preferred to let such talk percolate among grassroots groups and conservative media, although a few openly embraced these sentiments. Republican votes as well as GOP lawmakers vehemently denied that racial malice was involved. A majority of African Americans, however, thought that racial animus was a significant factor among the president’s opponents.

    The nation’s shifting demographics, not the troubled economy, was the most important story of the campaign. “Republicans have run out of persuadable white voters,” two GOP pollsters warned a month later. Relying almost solely on whites—a viable GOP strategy for much of the post-1945 era—was now insufficient. The white share of the electorate, in decline since the 1990s, would almost certainly continue to shrink. Although Republican leaders agreed that their party needed to become more diverse, they made no serious bid to win over black voters.

    Republicans also showed little inclination to rethink long-standing at udes about race, politics, and the role of the state. Stung by his defeat, Romney consoled supporters by telling them that Obama had used the Democrats’ “old playbook” by offering “gifts” to blacks and others in return for votes. A two-term African American president, elected largely by women, youth, and nonwhites, indicated that much had changed since the New Deal. Yet as far as Republicans were concerned, nothing had changed.


    http://www.nationalmemo.com/weekend-...ans-1945-1974/

    therefore, VOTER SUPPRESSION is a key strategy for Repugs, but they can only accomplish disenfranchisement reliably in red states, which don't have enough racists to win the Presidency. Purple states under Repug democratic destruction are still in play.
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    The most outwardly, unabashedly, racist people I have ever met have been Asians.
    If we are going to racistly generalize while talking about races being racist, I would say Indians. In almost every situation I met an Indian (red dot), they were so openly racist towards blacks. I couldn't believe it because most times it was in a professional manner, and I didn't really know them well enough for them to confide that kind of stuff towards me. Also mexicans. Growing up, there were many times I couldn't meet a girl's parents because they didn't want their daughter talking to white boys. Also many cir stances where they drop the n bomb on me because I'm white so they think I wouldn't be offended.

    However since I've been in the Army, I met alot of racist white people. Not racist in the fact that they'll deny them raises and promotions. But their ignorance towards black people's culture and using that to talk trash.
    Actually, I wasn't generalizing. I was merely relating a summary of my own experience.

    This is generalizing:

    I think Asian cultures tend to be racist.


    There is a difference, however sublte. I do think that by the way. If that makes me a racist, so be it. I think most cultures on the planet tend to be racist, some more than others.

    There is though, some rather solid scientific evidence about how groups of humans tend to view "otherness" that underlies this human tendency. We are wired to have racists tendencies. It is possible to overcome them with some thought, but that streak is there.

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    Fox News asks Nicaraguan meteorologist to host ‘Taco Day’ segment: ‘You grew up on tacos’

    Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday said he assumed that the network’s Latina meteorologist “grew up on tacos,” even though it is not a traditional food in her native country of Nicaragua.

    To celebrate National Taco Day, Fox & Friends asked Fox News Weather team member Maria Molina, who was born in Nicaragua and grew up in South Florida, to host a segment explaining how to make tacos.


    “So what are the tips we need to know?” Kilmeade asked Molina. “You grew up on tacos, correct?”


    “No, I did not grow up on tacos!” Molina shot back. “I’m Nicaraguan. It’s not a native food.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/0...w-up-on-tacos/



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    The confederate flag won't help conservatives win shutdown

    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/polit...hutdown/70479/

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    The confederate flag won't help conservatives win shutdown

    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/polit...hutdown/70479/
    "front pages of Breitbart, Twitchy, Drudge, Blaze, Townhall, Daily Caller, etc"

    preaching lies and proganda to the choir of ignorant bubbas, rousing the rabble, inflaming the flaming assholes

    Why didn't the police beat the out of and pepper spray the barricade tossers the way they did to OWS?



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    I see where the ignorant, paranoid Confederate racists, birthers also were yelling for Barry "to put the Quran down."

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    War of Northern Aggression.

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    The Tea Party Republicans Biggest Mistake: Confusing Government with Our System of Government

    Representative Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama and a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act, has just changed his tune. He now says: "My primary focus is on minimizing risk of insolvency and bankruptcy. There are many paths you can take to get there. Socialized medicine is just one of the component parts of our debt and deficits that put us at financial risk."


    Translated: House Republicans are under intense pressure. A new Gallup poll shows the Republican Party now viewed favorably by only 28% of Americans, down from 38% in September. That's the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992. The Democratic Party is viewed favorably by 43%, down four percentage points from last month.


    So Republicans are desperately looking for a way of getting out of the hole they've dug for themselves

    http://robertreich.org/post/63660547187

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    a compact history of Repug racism, race baiting, dog whistling over the past 45+ years

    The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency

    http://www.salon.com/2014/01/11/the_...an_presidency/

    and of course much of the obsession of wealthy white 1%ers in cutting the social safety net is to blacks and browns, although 60% on public assistance are white.
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    Southern Republican says racism drives GOP opposition to immigration reform

    A Republican lawmaker admitted yesterday that his party is having difficulty moving forward with immigration reform due to deeply rooted racist animus expressed by a portion of their own cons uent base.

    In an interview with Buzzfeed, the Southern congressman, who wished to remain anonymous, explained that members of his party felt handcuffed and unable to pass a comprehensive immigration reform package due to fear of push back from hometown cons uents.


    “Part of it, I think — and I hate to say this, because these are my people — but I hate to say it, but it’s racial,” admitted the lawmaker. “If you go to town halls people say things like, ‘These people have different cultural customs than we do.’ And that’s code for race.”


    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) added , “There will always be people [who have] different reasons for opposing the change. We have a history in this country of demagoguery when it comes [to immigration]. You know, ‘Irish Need Not Apply.’ There’s nothing new going on today that’s gone on before. This isn’t the first time that there’s been some ugliness around the issue of immigration.”


    Despite widespread bipartisan support for immigration reform that would include a pathway to citizenship for undo ented children and immigrants who are already in the United States, progress has been glacial due in no small part to high profile members of the Republican party including Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who often uses incendiary rhetoric to bolster his national ambitions.


    On Tuesday night, President Obama made immigration reform a major point of his inaugural address calling it ” …a responsible pathway to earned citizenship—a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/3...e+Raw+Story%29


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    “ I hate to say it, but it’s racial,” admitted the lawmaker. “If you go to town halls people say things like, ‘These people have different cultural customs than we do.’ And that’s code for race.”
    An honest republican in Congress.

    That makes me have a little bit of hope, I was beginning to despair a bit.

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    Florida Ku Klux Klan leader boasts of ‘invisible empire’ of sympathetic public officials



    Residents in central Florida have become increasingly aware that the Ku Klux Klan is in their midst.

    WFTV 9 reports that recruitment flyers for the Florida chapter of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) have appeared in neighborhoods throughout the central part of the state.

    One flyer of the flyers implores readers to join the KKK “[b]ecause the KKK has twice saved this nation from destruction as history clearly records.”


    According to the organization’s perspective on American history, the KKK “saved” the United States from “n*gger terrorists” who threatened to destroy the country after the Civil War. Between 1865 and the early 1870s, former Confederate soldiers resorted to extrajudicial measures in order to restore the social hierarchy shattered by the war.


    The Klan targeted free blacks, northern “carpetbaggers” and even Union soldiers before President Ulysses S. Grant signed the 1871 Civil Rights Act, which allowed local authorities to suspend habeas corpus if the Klan did not dissolve, which most chapters did.


    The second time the Klan believes it “saved” America happened in the early 1920s. D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation had romanticized the Klan’s first flowering, and many Protestants — largely concerned with Catholic immigration and increased urbanization and unionization — felt the social order the first Klan had sought to restore was, again, in need of defense.


    According to the flyers being plastered and passed around central Florida, it is once again time to defend their version of American society. According to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’s website, “[i]t is the duty of all white Christian men and women to fight against the Communist who have stolen our Nation.”


    The site and the flyers invite prospective KKK members to “Change your life; Achieve your goals; Expand your opportunities; Experience success; Gain self-confidence; Meet new people; [and] Make a difference in the world.”


    In an interview with WFTV 9, the “grand dragon” of the Florida chapter — who remained hooded throughout the interview “[b]ecause I care about my job” — said that the flyers are “just the tip of the iceberg right now,” and that he belongs to an “invisible empire.”


    We have police officers, paramedics, judges,” said the grand dragon. “They’re everywhere.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/3...e+Raw+Story%29



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    Understanding Paul Ryan's Racism in Three Easy Steps

    Paul Ryan has attempted to clarify his racist argument that “inner city” black people are lazy and do not want to work. He issued a statement that:

    After reading the transcript of yesterday morning’s interview, it is clear that I was inarticulate about the point I was trying to make. I was not implicating the culture of one community—but of society as a whole.

    This is a false and disingenuous pseudo apology. Paul Ryan is the leader of a political party that is the country’s premier white iden y organization. The Republican Party has also merged conservatism and racism in such a way that appeals to white racial resentment are its Lingua Franca and a taken for granted way of thinking about political and social reality.


    Paul Ryan traffics in racism
    because the Republican Party is a racist organization. The calculus is not complicated.


    There has been some smart writing about Paul Ryan’s use of coded racial appeals. However, the majority of the news media is asking the wrong question. Instead of trying to figure out “if” Paul Ryan is a racist, the more revealing question is “what type of racist is he?”


    There are three basic ways to understand Paul Ryan’s racism, both as part of a pattern of behavior by Republicans, and as an example of (symbolic) white racism in the post civil rights era.


    The Southern Strategy.


    Paul Ryan’s claim that black people have “bad culture”, may be genetically defective, and do not have “normal” “middle class” values about the merits of “hard work”, is a simple channeling of legendary Republican strategist Lee A er’s tactics for mobilizing white voters by leveraging their hostility to black Americans.

    A er famously advised Republicans to:

    You start out in 1954 by saying, “n!gg@,
    n!gg@, n!gg@.” By 1968 you can’t say “n!gg@”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a of a lot more abstract than “n!gg@, n!gg@.”

    The Southern Strategy has been the cornerstone of Republican politics for at least five decades. While former Republican National Committee chairmen Ken Mehlman and Michael Steele admitted (and apologized) that Republicans use racist appeals to motivate white voters, the Southern Strategy remains central to their party’s electoral logic and approach.

    Paul Ryan’s racism and embrace of the Southern Strategy is the Republican Party’s conventional wisdom in practice.

    Colorblind racism and White Victimology.


    Paul Ryan’s use of “dog whistles” and coded racial appeals to disparage and slur African-Americans exist within a social context where overt racism is a violation of public speech norms and values.


    Following the triumphs of the civil rights movement, colorblind white racism has largely replaced “old fashioned” racism.


    While whites still use very explicit and racist speech in the “backstage”, private spaces, or online, America’s embrace of multiculturalism and pluralism have deemed such acts anathema to “decent” people. This is especially true for a nationally known politician like Paul Ryan.


    Colorblind racism inverts reality and distorts the facts. It involves denying that racism still exists as a serious social problem; black and brown people are limited in their life chances not because of ins utional discrimination but because of their “bad culture” or “laziness”; white supremacy and systems of white racial advantage are dismissed as either exaggerated or non-existent; racism is reduced to mean words by white people, as opposed to systematic ins utional discrimination against people of color.


    The most perverse result of colorblind racism is that many white people now believe that they are “victims” of "racism", and that “anti-white racism” is a larger problem in the United States than is discrimination against black and brown Americans. Mountains of research and empirical data detail how Americans society is oriented around maintaining white privilege and white material advantages over people of color.


    Colorblind racism overrides those facts by distorting white people’s (and some others’) ability to process and understand reality.


    Paul Ryan’s “inner city” comment is a quintessential example of colorblind racism. He cannot plainly state that lazy black people are genetically predisposed to idleness, crime, violence, and sexual promiscuity. However, Ryan can suggest that the supposed failures of black people are really their own fault, and that all they need to do is “work hard” and have “good culture” to get ahead in America like "normal" (read: white) people.


    Paul Ryan’s defenders are enabling colorblind racism by trafficking in its other distortion of reality: white victimology. Paul Ryan is portrayed as a victim of political correctness. His black conservative pets such as Ron Christie claim that Ryan is a “truth-teller”. Ryan will tell interviewers that he is just misunderstood and is being unfairly criticized.

    Once more, colorblind racism protects white people from the consequences of their racist behavior by transforming them into “victims”.

    White privilege and white racial innocence.


    Paul Ryan’s faux apology emphasized his intent, and how he was “inarticulate” in his claim that black people are lazy and have bad genes.


    Paul Ryan meant what he said and said what he meant. White privilege is more than the unearned advantages that come with being identified as “white” in American society and elsewhere. White privilege is an assumption that whiteness, and white people, are benign. White privilege is also an assumption of preeminent good intent and innocence.

    The historical record suggests otherwise: whiteness was born of violence towards people of color. Whiteness works and is made real through many lies both small and large.
    Paul Ryan, like other racists, will deploy the common phrase “I didn’t mean it that way” or “that was not my intention”.

    By contrast, the twin facts of white privilege and white racism are not dependent on intent.


    The racist cannot tell the victim of the former’s racism how and if they should be offended.


    Moreover, Paul Ryan’s claim to have made a mistake will be granted because he is white and male. The errors of prominent (as well as rank and file) African-Americans for example, are never excused away or viewed as aberrations or outliers. No. When black folks are “inarticulate” or “misspeak” the white racial frame deems such moments as indications of incompetence, or proof that people of color are somehow “not qualified” or as “intelligent” as white people.


    The white gaze does not view black Americans as individuals. When a black person makes a mistake it becomes the focus of a “national conversation” about the black community, one in which “black leaders” are forced to publicly explain and condemn the actions of other black people. There is not an equivalent ritual for white people. White conservatives and the white community will not be forced to condemn Paul Ryan. Nor will white people be held publicly accountable for Paul Ryan’s and the Republican Party’s racism.


    Whiteness deems that Paul Ryan is a “racial innocent”, an “individual”, and that he should be treated as such.


    Paul Ryan and other movement conservatives are racial political arsonists. Ryan’s racist claims about lazy black people with bad genes are a function of a willful political strategy and determined worldview. They are not exceptions, outliers, or bizarre happenings.


    Racism is a habit for white conservatives because racism and conservatism are the same thing in the post civil rights era.


    Paul Ryan and other conservatives can claim that they are innocent of their racist political arson. But, they are repeatedly caught, hiding behind the dumpster, or in the bushes, as the building burns. One hand is busy, down the trousers, working in onanistic fervor as the conflagration spreads. The other hand is concealing a lighter. The police approach, shake their heads, and say “you again!”


    Paul Ryan and his fellow racial political arsonists in the Republican Party apologize, flummoxed, and indignant with the police that “you have the wrong guy!”


    The police will just slap his wrist and say “don’t do it again”. Why? Because Paul Ryan and other racial political arsonists in the Republican Party are really decent people who are just misunderstood.

    http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/ch...current_page=1



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    House GOP releases ag budget

    And in a surprising twist, the bill language specifies that only rural areas are to benefit in the future from funding requested by the administration this year to continue a modest summer demonstration program to help children from low-income households — both urban and rural — during those months when school meals are not available.

    Since 2010, the program has operated from an initial appropriation of $85 million, and the goal has been to test alternative approaches to distribute aid when schools are not in session. The White House asked for an additional $30 million to continue the effort, but the House bill provides $27 million for what’s described as an entirely new pilot program focused on rural areas only.

    Democrats were surprised to see urban children were excluded. And the GOP had some trouble explaining the history itself. But a spokeswoman confirmed that the intent of the bill is a pilot project in “rural areas” only.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...se-106831.html

    poor redneck kids eat, poor black/brown kids don't.

    Repug reachout to minorities continues



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    Not Just Whistling 'Dixie': Peroutka Stands Up for Southern Secession -

    Michael Peroutka, the Republican candidate for Anne Arundel County Council, stood up for secession and the white nationalist League of the South, at a hastily called, standing-room-only press conference on July 30 in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Peroutka has been under fire for months for his involvement in and leadership of the League of the South, a white nationalist group that advocates conservative, Christian theocracy and secession to form a Southern Republic. Top Democratic and Republican leaders had called for him to resign from the group.

    Most prominently, Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan, Jr., recentlydisavowed Peroutka because of his involvement in the racist and theocratic group. Hogan campaign spokesman Adam Dubitsky said: "Larry absolutely disavows him. Those views have never been a part of the Republican Party and they never will."

    But before the state press corps, Peroutka refused to resign from the the League, which he calls "a Christian, free market group."

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...n?detail=email

    Georgia!

    fat sleeveless bubbas' Confederacy Lives!

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    So it's come to this.

    KKK members require help from Mom in cutting out proper eye-holes.
    Look at that fraying cloth around the openings... how's a cracker supposed to locate a prospective lynching victim?

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    Is Southern Conservatism Just Plain Old Racism?

    Why did the Democratic “Solid South” of old become such a stronghold of Republican strength? Lyndon Johnson, one of the smartest Southern politicians ever, had no doubt in his mind — “There goes the South for a generation,” he reportedly said, after signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

    But the South was already halfway out the door at the time. Missouri, with a fair amount of Southern culture in its veins, is nonetheless a border state, home to Harry Truman, whoseenunciation of a civil rights agenda, followed by integration of the armed forces and strong civil rights platform in 1948, led to the walkout of the Dixiecrats, which cost him a dramatic 20 percent drop in the share of the Southern vote from where it had been in 1944. That launched a transitional era that is strangely lost to most who ponder such things today.

    what exactly is meant by “small-government conservatism”?

    And how does that square with the fact that Southern states almost universally get far more money from the federal government than they send in by way of taxes?

    And finally, how to explain the findings in a2005 paper by Nicholas Valentino and David Sears, which found that “whites residing in the old Confederacy continue to display more racial antagonism and ideological conservatism than non-Southern whites,” and that “Racial conservatism has become linked more closely to presidential voting and party identification over time in the white South”?


    But there’s also another problem with the “it’s-not-race-it’s-principled-small-government-conservatism” explanation — namely that race and small government conservatism are inextricably linked.

    This is not to say that all small government conservatives are racists. But it is to say that racial at udes and at udes toward robust government activism are strongly linked, statistically;

    the more positive (or negative) your at udes toward activist government are, the more positive (or negative) your at udes toward blacks are likely to be, and vice versa as well.

    Negative racial at udes manifest both in terms of opposition to black political power, and in blaming blacks for their subordinate status. If this sounds like a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don’t sort of situation, you’re right. That’s exactly what it is.


    http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ain-old-racism



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    Paul Ryan’s claim that black people have “bad culture”, may be genetically defective, and do not have “normal” “middle class” values about the merits of “hard work”, is a simple channeling of legendary Republican strategist Lee A er’s tactics for mobilizing white voters by leveraging their hostility to black Americans.
    That many in the GOP don't see it that way is a problem and of itself.

    Ryan, to his credit has realized that his "makers and takers" spiel is horribly condescending.

    Not that I would vote for him, but he did move the needle with the previews that I read in his book.

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