Demise of the Southern Democrat Is Now Nearly Complete..WTW?
After President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly told a fellow Democrat that the party had lost the South for a long time to come. It took more than a generation for old Southern loyalties to the Democrats to fade, but that vision is on the verge of being realized this weekend.
If Mary Landrieu, a Democratic Senator from Louisiana, loses re-election in Saturday’s runoff election, as expected, the Republicans will have vanquished the last vestige of Democratic strength in the once solidly Democratic Deep South. In a region stretching from the high plains of Texas to the Atlantic coast of the Carolinas, Republicans would control not only every Senate seat, but every governor’s mansion and every state legislative body.
Democrats held or controlled nearly every one of them when Mr. Johnson signed that bill in 1964. And they still held a majority as recently as a decade ago. Ms. Landrieu’s defeat would essentially mark an end to the era of the Southern Democrats: the conservative, Southern, white officials, supported by white Southerners, whose conflicted views helped define American politics for half a century.
Today, nearly all of the Democrats holding federal or statewide office in the South will represent so-called “majority-minority” districts or areas with a large number of new residents from outside the region. Democrats will control Senate seats or governors’ mansions only in Virginia and Florida. Not coincidentally, those are the two Southern states where people born outside the state represent a majority of the population. These Democrats bear little resemblance to the Southern Democrats who won by attracting conservative white voters.
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But the South is a self-hating region. Southerners hate themselves and one another almost as much as they hate Yankees.
I do not know why this is. I do not know why Southerners will nearly always vote for the most corrupt guy on the ballot, but I also know Appalachian Democrats trying to make a positive difference.
I suspect that people in the Bobble Belt get screamed at a lot in church, told they are scum pieces of crap that only have any shred of hope for themselves if they put a pile of money in the collection plate.
The hate-preaching churches here have a hold on some voters like the Catholic church up North.
And Southerners, for all Jesus saying "Don't judge," are the most judgmental people I have ever met anywhere I've lived or traveled.
Not that people aren't judgmental everywhere, just that many Southerners I know find redemption in trashing one another rather than having lives. I've heard all sorts of rumors about what I, a single woman, have been up to.
If only. I'd love pictures of all this exciting stuff I've been doing....But since my Christian "neighbors" are obsessed with my life, even as some of them teach their kids that the world is about to end and they will be "raptured," I only count down the days til I can get the fuck out of here.
I consider them like chickens, pecking the weakest to death for a few social points.
"When the rapture comes, you and me and Daddy are going to watch all the sinners who didn't love Jesus, and who wouldn't go to our cult church, writhing in pain and being burned alive below us as we float to heaven!!!!! Won't it be awesome!!!!!! Praise Jesus!!!!!!!"
These people are your Southern voter right now...
