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Red Phillips| 8.11.09 @ 5:56PM
Yes, Lind is always interesting. The majority of the article is good but in the last few paragraphs he makes it clear to anyone who had any doubts that he has not wandered too far off the liberal reservation.
John Thacker| 8.11.09 @ 6:57PM
In Lind's case, he makes it clear that he hasn't wandered back onto the conservative reservation, since as I recall he started out on the Right before fairly radically altering his views.
Alan Brooks| 8.11.09 @ 7:17PM
the Southern case has become more understandable in the light of today's moral dissonance, and oldtime Northern technocracy-- not to mention carpet baggers.
But most of my family who are still alive live in the South, and every time I visited there for a few weeks --back in the day-- and hung out with the locals, I was propositioned at different times by adults, adolescents, and even by children.
one might say even without possessing the training of a statistician that moral dissonance is no stranger to Dixie.
Red Phillips| 8.11.09 @ 8:17PM
Lind did used to be a conservative who became a Beltway "centrist." But of course we all know his Beltway centrism is really liberalism with less invective. That said, his understanding of the political landscape is often quite insightful. As someone who considers himself outside both perspectives he is freer to tell the truth and is less encumbered by inside the perspective group think.
PapaHans| 8.12.09 @ 4:05AM
I come by my dislike of the South honestly; I hitchhiked through the deep South in the late 1970's. I was sexually propositioned, literally dozens of times, (and no, unfortunately, none of them were Southern Belle's), was threatened with death five times, and had a pistol pulled on me once, all for no good reason by the way. I saw the most abject poverty I could ever imagine, reinforced when I saw virtually the same shacks inhabited by dirty, poorly dressed blacks, and whites, in Kentucky, Virginia, and Mississippi 25 years later.
The Deep South is an embarassment. Virtually thirld-world in many indicators, they are not only not ashamed, but somehow proud, as though having the highest incest, teen pregnancy, infant mortality, divorce, and chemical dependency rates, and lowest literacy, income, and life expectancy was something to be proud of.
The South is like many failed democracies; until the people inflict pain and suffering on the moral-defectives that rule them, there'll be no change.
Dan| 8.12.09 @ 4:15PM
Were you dressed like a man ? I've lived in the South for over 50 years and I've yet to be propositioned once let alone a dozen times by another man. Never had a pistol pulled on me either.
I guess N.Y. Chicago, Los Angeles, etc are
poverty free Edens.
Ignorant nutcases like you need to stay up north where you can feel smug, safe and happy.