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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, January 27, 2014

The South Is DIfferent, Episode 183,953

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/why-is-the-american-dream-dead-in-the-south/283313/

It's a decent write up.  But the South's racial history has also led it to reject unions, income redistribution and social services.

FDR said the South was the nation's number one economic problem.  Not much has changed.  But certainly the politics of the South is the number one problem in addressing our economic problems.

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