Sons of the South

I've seen some on-line commentary that describes the GOP opposition to the Voting Rights Act as "throwing a bone to white male conservative southern racists" (there are some pleonasms in there, I know). This misses the point entirely. Truth be told, these legislators are THEMSELVES white male conservative southern racists!!

We really should have let the South secede. Then, when it finally collapsed under the weight of its crushing burden of corruption and indolence and finally got conquered by Mexico, we could have stolen it back.

In Senate, it’s déjà vu all over again on Voting Rights Act extension

An extension of the Voting Rights Act is running into some of the same objections in the Senate that it faces in the House, where the bill was pulled from the floor schedule last week after rank-and-file Republicans rebelled against their leadership.

Southern Senate conservatives are raising concerns about reauthorizing Section 5 of the law, which requires jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination to pre-clear voting-law changes with the Justice Department. Some Southerners argue that the requirement is unnecessarily onerous and that their states should not be singled out in perpetuity.

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