Not all Rednecks are Repbulican Zombies

[AGiordino]

Ref: Texas Redistricting Vote and Special Sessions

From The Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald Editorial Letters :
History Repeating?
Soon after the Civil War, a Republican congressional leader named Thaddeus Stevens was said to have argued that the of the South "ought never to be recognized as valid states until the Constitution shall have been so amended ... as to secure perpetual ascendancy" to the Republican Party. Now 137 years later, Tom DeLay's aim appears to be the same.
Stevens' rush to give the vote to the recently freed slaves failed to take into account the adverse effects of that policy on the welfare of the former slaves themselves. DeLay's plan similarly ignores the welfare of the Texas voters, specifically Blacks and Latinos, who would be affected by his radical redistricting.
Stevens' plan backfired, of course, and effectively shut the Republican Party out of local Southern politics for almost a century.
Perhaps there could be a lesson here for Texas Republican leaders as well.

Heck, and here, this close to Crawford that media would tow the line and refuse to print opposing viewpoints.

[WillParkinson]

1. How about...

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it?

[JohnKleeb]

2. My dad once considered his in laws rednecks

Although I told him that they were the antithesis of. They arent repukes either but I think my dad was on something :) when he called them rednecks, sorry I just find it hard to call the children of immigrants and people who spoke a second language during childhood rednecks, his feelings have changed on my grandparents.

[w4rma]

3. It's good to see southerners remember our Democratic roots!

IMHO, the Civil War was fought over economics more than slavery. And the Democratic Party has always been on the opposite side of the fight from the big (North Eastern, at that time) corporations.

It's the economy, stupid!

[southern democrat]

4. I agree

whats so ironic was you couldn't more liberal than Lincoln was at that time in history.The Republicans claim to be the party of Lincoln man they shure have changed over the years.This bunch of Republicans now especally since Reagan would have never have ended slavery if it was left up to them.

[TacticalPeek]

5. Yep. Already privatized; why mess with it?

Those decisions are better left to the lokkkal level.

Keep big government out of it.