(Rec. if you) are 'White', pay Federal Income Taxes, and LOATHE Republicans.

[BellaKos]

6. Well, I am an archetype

of the "typical Republican" on paper. Not only am I white, I'm the whitest of white in that three of my grandparents can be traced all the way back to the 1600 to the south coast of England, the province of Normandy in France, and the Isle of Guernsey. The lineage of the remaining grandparent can be traced back to the origin of the name in Scotland in 1200 AD.

Also, I am a true Southerner. Not only was I born and raised in Georgia, but also my family on both sides have lived in Georgia and South Carolina since the 1600s. My mother's family were among the founders of Charleston. My great-great-grandfather was a plantation owner. In fact, I don't even know of anyone in the whole world whose heritage is so completely Southern. Even my first cousins and half-brother and sister have ancestors from outside the South. I don't at all.

Not only that, I'm eligible to be a member of the DAR and the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy). I have two uncles, one in the Army and one in the Navy, who landed at Normandy on D-Day. My father was a disabled WWII veteran. Step-father is retired from the Air Force.

And I'm 62 years old.

So, there you have it. White, Southern, military, and senior. I'm the poster child of the typical Republican teabagger.

And the advantage that this gives me is that I get the racial code words perhaps better than most. There is no doubt in my mind that the Repukes have been using racially-coded language to manipulate Southerners since Nixon's campaign in 1968. And it is apparent to me that a large part of the antipathy against Obama is based on racial hatred that seems deeply embedded in the psyche of certain segments of the American population.

In my case, I was influenced and moved by Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech as a child, far more so than the racism that thrived in my environment.
Weird, ain't it?