Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule

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100. Yep...

And those giggling "Deliverance" references and pictures of toothless, shoe-less, trailer dwelling redneck/hillbillies gets a total free pass...or if you call people out on this classist, regionalist bigotry, they bring out that hollow justification "well they deserve it for voting against their own best interests"--making the assumption that anyone who is southern, lives in substandard housing, and has insufficient access to education, economic opportunity, and medical care automatically makes them conservative. Even if a majority are, focus on political beliefs alone, while ignoring the centuries of social forces and outright propoganda that have bred those beliefs, is never going to result in positive change--nor does it invalidate the fact that classism is classism, whoever the objects of derision are. When you use someone's social position to make them subhuman, you undermine all progressive causes.