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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South. Hmm, didnt't they have the same issue with the civil
rights act?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/30/obamacare-block_n_2985587.html
"ATLANTA As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states."
What is the matter with the South? When will the time come when they step into this century instead of living into the past.
msongs
(67,470 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Black president, if Bush would have gotten it passed hell nor high water would not have stopped those yelling so loud today. Probably those yelling the loudest are on Medicare or getting close to that time but it is mostly about Obama. I look to the next decade sensible people will wonder why it took so long to get this accomplished.
still_one
(92,489 posts)plan. This is due to racism period
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)The Confederacy did nto stop fighting in 1865. I seriously won der if "malice toward none, charity for all" was Lincoln's great mistake, as all it did was enable the KKK to become the de facto CSA.
If ther CSA ever happens again, this time, hang the equivalent of Jeffdavis and Robert E Lee.