Mary Landrieu's Remark About Blacks in the South Was True—and Politically Shrewd.

The New Republic ^ | November 3, 2014 | Brian Beutler

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As a Democrat, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is running up against the late stages of partisan realignment. But while the rise of the GOP in the South may end her political career, nobody has ever confused Landrieu for a political neophyte, or accused her of misunderstanding the essence of Louisiana politics.

It’s against that backdrop that she attributed President Obama’s unpopularity in her state, in part, to the fact that “the South has not always been the friendliest place for African Americans.”

As regional or cultural dog whistles go, this is significantly less contestable than, say, the GOP's incessant derision of northern and coastal “values.” But it has provoked a backlash, not just from conservative pols and operatives who have created for themselves a state of denial in which racial politics don’t really exist, but also among professional political analysts, who believe Landrieu made an error by alluding to the South’s racial history in public...

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Nope.....it wasn’t. It was for Maness and true conservatism.
Now that it is in a run-off, I’ll have to hold my nose and vote for the stinkin’ RINO who is barely less evil than the communist fat pig skank that will go down in flames.