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In reply to the discussion: The South bashing is getting really old. [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)to Trash the South and make fun of that area of the Country when it's pocketed and Embedded all across USA (due to Media Deregulation: Limbaugh, Beck and the others that folks without money listen to because it's free in their Cars/Trucks and they do Delivery or other occupations where they spend much time in Car/Truck/Hauler)...means that we Trash those who are less advantaged by making them into grotesque cartoon figures.
The stuff that goes on here on DU and other Lib/Dem Sites blaming everything on the South, Racism and Confederacy has the advantage of ignoring what's going on down the Street in other Areas of the US where the Poor have no alternative except to rail against a SYSTEM that they see as Corrupt. It's just that they are driven by the Limbaugh types to focus on it being "Pointy Headed Liberals and Big Government (but not MY Senator or Congressperson) and Elitist Dems causing their destruction or holding them down from advancing.
It's a tactic that not only Repugs use...but, our Democrats in the Party Elite learned to use for their own purposes, too.
I had hoped that Bill Clinton's election would slay the Beast. But the Beast bit him in the Butt.
The Beast is NOT the Southern Confederacy....it's the lack of Education Funding, Media Deregulation and Poverty Programs that never met the targets. There are other factors...but, I'm too tired to go into something that would take too much time and no one here would read...given the EUPHORIA OF TODAY.
So..whatever. Sick of Southern Bashing here on DU.