“I have shown you the facts - the South has shown a larger appetite than the North for government handouts and welfare.”
And those programs came as a result of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, a liberal monstrosity hatched in the academic fever swamps of the northeast. Those are facts you choose to overlook.
“In my lifetime, it was the Southern Democrats who chaired all the large Congressional committees because the South had a tendency to re-elect the same representatives over and over again, giving them seniority.”
It wasn’t Harry Byrd, Strom Thurmond and Russell Long Democrats voting for the Great Society. It was the unholy alliance of Ev Dirksen-Nelson Rockefeller Republicans with liberal northern Democrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_coalition
” The South is at least as responsible as any other section of our country for the size of our Federal Government. These are facts that you need to accept to understand our history and our present circumstances. If you want to delude yourself, “
You’re very selective in your choice of eras in order to concoct your argument. The post Great Society Southern Democrats are vastly different from the pre-1965 Southern Democrats. There were no black Democrats in that earlier era whereas the current crop are both black and liberal in their politics. I’m hardly deluding myself by pointing out a major difference that you’re ignoring.
” Nothing could be more clear than that right now, the South wants no part of “secession” and is grateful that the South is part of the USA. “
That must explain the need for the current crop of South haters to try to ban the Confederate flag, to change the names of schools, streets, the deface monuments.
You're kidding us, right?
You're joking, just pulling our legs, right?
You think somebody is going to believe that President Lyndon Baines Johnson was an academic from northeastern fever swamps?
What a jokester you are, pal!
Or are you now going to confess that President Lyndon Pedernales Cowpoke Johnson, the biggest socialist up to that point in time, was born and raised deep in heart of the Deep South, Texas.
Really pal, you need to get over this idea that Southerners, especially Deep Southerners are natural born conservatives -- you're not, you're natural born commies, who have to fight the commie devil from morning to night just keep on that straight & narrow conservative road.
And Johnson proves: you don't always win those battles in your souls.
In short, history shows that you're just like anyone else, given the opportunity, except, more than others, you like to hide it and pretend otherwise.
;~)