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In reply to the discussion: Am I allowed to say I get really tired of South bashing? [View all]AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)How is that even possible? See, you are now doing what you just complained about 'the North' doing.
Now watch, I can do it too except that I offer evidence...
Alabama Outdoes Arizona with Racist Immigration Law
"Last week, a federal court's decision allowed parts of a law to go into effect that essentially requires police to racially profile people while criminalizing undocumented migrants for being without immigration documents. The law and the decision upholding it shows that Alabama -- in passing the harshest anti-immigration law in the nation -- is still mired in its racist, segregationist past. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-rushing/alabamas-immigration-law_b_992801.html
"Alabama State Flag. Crimson St. Andrew's cross on a white field, patterned after the Confederate Battle Flag, and adopted in 1895"
It's the embedded racism and segregationist mindset that repulses us.