TNR calls Southern Repubs "Racist"

The New Republic runs the gamut from centrist to far left to garbage, and garbage is represented here by a rabid ranting raver who claims that the South is marginalized from American life by its racism.

No sort of real analysis of the Repubs as the dualistic party that is torn between Southern cultural and religious social conservatives and Western libertarian fiscal conservatives with liberal social mores. That would be subtle.

Not a word about the blacks marginalizing themselves by voting en bloc Dem, but still being taken for granted and bypassed by border states like Maryland.

The problem is southern racism, according to this TNR northern Jewish writer, who must never have heard the many times I was personally told by the southern blacks in DC and St. Louis that they preferred living in the South, where people were not such hypocrites about race, like this author Perlstein obviously is. Of course, I worked among these blacks back in the days before drugs and welfare sent their community into a downward spiral, though it was beginning at the time. But back then, they would have sized up this Perlstein jerk as just another phony Northern creep.

And possibly a closet racist himself.