With North Carolina's slide into political barbarism and stupidity we're reminded of that once reassuringly semi-rational and progressive state's legacy of racism and conservative fear-mongering about the threat of disorder. Meaning, the unthinkable enfranchisement and empowering of blacks and lower class whites against the planters and landed gentry who once dominated the state.
Surely golf scores will rise unacceptably among the country club white folks and standards of graciousness and civility will decline precipitously as the rabble take over from their betters. Where's Thomas Dixon when you need him? Never have the good, church-going white folk been so persecuted and victimized by the forces of incivility. On the other hand, no one needs the Klan now.
Their descendants have co-opted and taken over the political system in North Carolina with the help of boatloads of money from other states. The Rebels have risen again. And not only in the famously regressive deeper south of George Wallace, Strom Thurmond and assorted Huckabees and Duck Dynasty knuckle-draggers. The whole country is going south. To shit and to hell.
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