Especially in the deep South, there’s always some good old boy who thinks some people are just too uppity:
Police at the University of Mississippi are investigating a racially inflammatory incident involving a statue depicting a civil rights icon.
According to The Daily Mississippian, the student-run newspaper at Ole Miss, a noose was found on Sunday morning around the neck of the school’s James Meredith statue. A pre-2003 Georgia state flag, which featured the “stars and bars” of the Confederacy, was also draped around the statue’s shoulders.
Meredith became the school’s first black student in 1962.
Authorities are investigating the incident and the Ole Miss Alumni Association has offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, but University Police Chief Calvin Sellers told TPM they “don’t have much” in the way of leads.
Obama didn’t eliminate racism and a president Hillary will not turn a patriarchal US into a matriarchal US. Or even bring the system closer to balance. So why elect her? Hillary may make things far worse than they are today. On several fronts.
….and in other news, the republican-led Georgia Legislature is one step closer to approving a new Car Tag with the Confederate flag displayed on it. Oh, and they’ve also moved to allow guns in bars and churches. What the hell can possibly go wrong?
Why am I not surprised? And when are the Confederate sedition-lovers going to realize they lost?
Ah, the devolution of America continues to gather speed.
Izquierdo – Correct, the devolution of America gathers speed. And I would predict that within one more generation, we will be hearing calls for secession from places other than the former Confederacy and Vermont.
As the relative cost of energy keeps going up, different sections of the Country are going to become more isolated from each other both geographically and politically. More and more people are going to discover they have less and less in common with each other, and what gets applied politically and from a business standpoint in one area is eventually going to be anathema in another area.
I can see significant regions – such as the regions around the Great Lakes, the old Northeast, the Pacific Northwest, and very certainly highly Hispanic areas of the Southwest saying “we’ve got nothing in common with these other people anymore” – and secede region by region.
Ms. Madrak – The Old South lost initially, but they run the country now. Very few labor unions in the Old South. Business loves that – hence the flight from the old union Rust Belt areas up North to the South, greatly increasing the influence of the South economically, in population growth, and politically.
The Old South will continue to dominate the country – until the relative cost of energy goes up a few more pegs. Then as the ability to drive great distances cheaply, and the ability to afford central air conditioning becomes “gone with the wind” – the South’s dominance will begin to fade.
Many other regions of the country will realize they don’t like the political system that has been imposed on them by the Old South, and will begin the process of secession. In particular, I mean a political system that severely penalizes more open minded urban areas elsewhere in the country.
As the central economic system collapses by mid-century, so will its ability to hold an ever more restive country together.