For supposedly despising the Nazi doctrines so very much, the left is certainly willing to apply most if not all of the Nazi agenda.Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of Eugenics, is a patron saint of the left.
Posted on 07/09/2015 8:54:29 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Politico Magazine, edited by former Washington Post reporter Susan Glasser, published an amazingly racist and culturally bigoted article by contributing editor Michael Lind last Friday entitled, How the South Skews America, We’d be less violent, more mobile and in general more normal if not for Dixie.
Politico bemoans conservative, religious white Southerners whom the magazine accuses of preventing the U.S. from being more like Britain, Canada and other liberal, English speaking democracies. The article concludes with the hope that the South will be ethnically and culturally cleansed by immigrants from other countries and liberals relocating from other parts of the U.S.
“The United States would be much less exceptional in general, and in particular more like other English-speaking democracies such as Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were it not for the effects on U.S. politics and culture of the American South.
“I don’t mean this in a good way. A lot of the traits that make the United States exceptional these days are undesirable, like higher violence and less social mobility. Many of these differences can be attributed largely to the South.”
…”Minus the South, the rest of the U.S. probably would be more like Canada or Australia or Britain or New Zealand—more secular, more socially liberal, more moderate in the tone of its politics and somewhat more generous in social policy. And it would not be as centralized as France or as social democratic as Sweden.”
Politico goes on to twist statistics to fit its bigoted screed:
…”The American South, with the lowest rates of intergenerational social mobility in the U.S., clearly skews the national statistics, creating an embarrassing and depressing version of American exceptionalism.
“Economic inequality? Apart from California and New York, where statistics reflect the wealth of Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley, the South is the region with the greatest income inequality. Southern exceptionalism has helped to ensure that the American Dream is more likely to be realized in the Old World than in the New.”
Politico builds its case for anti-Southern white bigotry through similar sophistry throughout the article.
“Jesusland” as the article calls the South keeps the U.S. down by its faith in God, according to Politico.
“Religiosity is one example of American exceptionalism among English-speaking countries that is largely the result of Southern exceptionalism within the United States. “We don’t do God,” Tony Blair’s aide Alastair Campbell famously remarked, emphasizing that religion is kept out of the public sphere in modern-day Britain. In most modern English-speaking countries, voters find ostentatious piety on the part of political candidates troubling, not reassuring. But in the U.S., born-again Southern evangelical politicians like Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush who troll for votes with piety have given U.S. presidential politics a flavor more reminiscent of Tehran than of London or Ottawa or Canberra. According to Gallup, in 2014 the most religious Americans were all found in Southern states, with the exceptions of Mormon Utah and semi-Southern Oklahoma. Mississippi led the nation in zeal.”
Politico distorts racial statistics to paint Southern whites as more prone to violence than anyone in the country.
“Southern violence also goes a long way toward explaining the exceptional violence of the United States in general compared to otherwise similar countries. The pre-modern “culture of honor” continues to exist to a greater degree in the South. White Southerners are more likely than white northerners to respond to insults with increased testosterone and aggression, according to social scientists. According to the FBI in 2012, the South as a region, containing only a quarter of the population, accounted for 40.9 percent of U.S. violent crime.”
Southern whites are also attacked as being racist for not voting for Barack Obama and being Republican.
“The racial polarization of the American electorate is exacerbated by the white Southern electorate. In 2012, Barack Obama, the first African-American president, won only 39 percent of the white vote. But low numbers among white voters in the South dragged down his nationwide total. Obama did better than his national average with white voters in the Midwest and won outright with 51 percent in Iowa.
“Voting is far more polarized along racial lines in the Southern states than elsewhere. According to a recent study by political scientists Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell and Maya Sen, “the larger the number of slaves in his or her county of residence in 1860, the greater the probability that a white Southerners today will identify as a Republican, express opposition to race-coded policies such as affirmative action and express greater racial resentment towards African Americans.”
The article ends on an upbeat note for liberals. Politico expresses the hope that ethnic and cultural cleansing will take place in the South.
“The northern progressives who joke about the U.S. jettisoning “Jesusland” and merging with Canada will not get their wish. But there is hope: A combination of demographic change and generational change is weakening the ability of the old-fashioned South to skew American politics and culture in the future. Peripheral Southern states like Florida and Virginia are increasingly competitive, and the Deep South may join them in time. In Texas once-reactionary cities like Houston and Dallas are competing with Austin as tolerant meccas for transplants who prefer the Sun Belt to the Old South. Immigration into the South from other countries and American regions is breaking down local oligarchies and old folkways.
“The decline in Southern exceptionalism in time may lead to more of a convergence among the U.S. and other modern democracies. Let us hope so. We have had enough of the wrong kind of American exceptionalism.”
This is an appallingly bigoted article, especially for a 21st Century D.C. political institution like Politico. On the issue of race alone, Politico ignores the many minority Republicans and Democrats elected to public office across the South.
Politico has published an article that is politically and intellectually dishonest.
But this is the state of politics in Barack Obama’s ‘progressive’ America.
Well after CWII we will be able to rid ourselves of the Yankees who have moved here and now vote to try to turn us into the chitholes they left behind. :-)
You have more “Yankee” friends than you realize; there’s a lot of us Yankees that are on your side.
This ‘journalist’ is simply stating, with more details, the same thing that Oprah said:
Paraphrased: “Old, White, Southerners have to die off.”
And who will invent and maintain all of the technology that everyone loves so well?
I’m starting to wonder if it might not be easier & less destructive (to us) if we should just become such a thorn in their side that they beg us to leave.
Added to the List.
5.56mm
For supposedly despising the Nazi doctrines so very much, the left is certainly willing to apply most if not all of the Nazi agenda.
I expect, this is just their way of saying that National Socialists has to have the “right people” running it, to make it work.
Any kind of socialism will work, if imposed under threat of serious consequences for non-compliance. Part of the problem, the threats of punishments keeps on escalating, because it becomes apparent the early threats do not seem to be working.
No one, and I mean NO ONE, on the planet Earth can take us. BRING IT!
They think every good thing was actually invented by nonwhites, but evil, wiley whites stole the credit for those inventions. So, once the hated whites are gone, nonwhites think they'll have all the same technology and the world will be a paradise.
Then let us go.
Were it not for “The South”, how would this little boy who wrote the article, enjoy his Coca-Cola??
Where else in the nation, does the climate exist, for that plant to grow, with that white fluffy stuff on it, that is spun to make the article author’s ‘tighty-whities’?
Where else in the nation, would have Louis Armstrong come from?
Where does bourbon come from? Kentucky!
Where did Gen. G.S. Patton train his troops, before going to Europe? Camp Beauregard (does that name ring a bell?), located in Pineville, Louisiana.
Which State has the most known name of a group of individuals, to uphold law and order, and is still a major force, today? The Texas Rangers.
If “The South” is so ‘bad’, why has the U.S. federal government, built FORT KNOX in Kentucky? Why wasn’t it built in some frozen State in the Northeast? Or near some ghost town, in the high desert of California?
The Mississippi River commercial traffic is a major artery, still today.
And what culture is a southerner supposed to aspire to? The metrosexuals of NYC? The dependent class of many northeast cities?
I’m good with secession and watching the liberal utopias fail. Miserably.
As someone who was born in northern Wisconsin, but has lived in Virginia for almost 40 years, I can only say,
“Come on and get you some”
Redskins should give a finger to DC and move where they are welcome.
oops—wrong thread.
Yes, it seems that we Southern whites who cling to our religion and guns have become America’s Jews of Nazi Germany’s WWII holocaust.
They want us to be gone in any way that they can accomplish their goal.
However, they should be very careful for that which they wish.
“Where did Gen. G.S. Patton train his troops”.
Let’s also not forget Patton’s Southern heritage, which ran deep.
Patton came from a long-line of Confederate soldiers. Like his father, he graduated from Virginia Military Institute.
The first Patton in America was born Robert Patton in Ayr, Scotland, who emigrated to Culpeper, Virginia, from Glasgow, Scotland, in either 1769 or 1770. George Patton also descended from Hugh Mercer, who had been killed in the Battle of Princeton during the American Revolution. Patton’s paternal grandfather was George Smith Patton who commanded the 22nd Virginia Infantry under Jubal Early in the Civil War and was killed in the Third Battle of Winchester, while his great uncle Waller T. Patton was killed in Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
michael must be cleansed from the population, surplus humanity
For supposedly despising the Nazi doctrines so very much, the left is certainly willing to apply most if not all of the Nazi agenda.Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of Eugenics, is a patron saint of the left.
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