Turning back the clock with Roy Moore

[guillaumeb]

from the article:

If a latter-day Rip Van Winkle woke up this week from a 50-year nap in Alabama, he’d figure not much had changed when he learned that Roy Moore had won a runoff election and was poised to become the state’s next U.S. senator............


Most white Alabamans aren’t yellow-dog Democrats anymore but yellow-dog Republicans. And where George Wallace’s raison d’être was racial segregation, Moore’s is Christian nationalism.

To read more:

http://religionnews.com/2017/09/29/turning-back-the-clock-with-roy-moore/

Did the US civil war ever really end, or was it channeled into endless iterations of the states rights and heritage arguments?

[redstatebluegirl]

1. A large portion of that state wishes they still had slaves.

[guillaumeb]

2. A recent edition of The Nation

has an excellent article about re-segregation in Alabama.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. A friend worked at the U of A for a while, she had to leave, she was a lesbian

and took so much crap she felt unsafe. It cost her dearly but she is now in the northeast and happy as she can be in this country.

[guillaumeb]

4. And THAT is waht the Tea Party intends for the entire country.

Alabama as the model for the nation.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. Pretty much.