03-24-2013, 04:59 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain in California
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Originally Posted by finnbow
"Violence, intolerance, aversion and suspicion toward new ideas, an incapacity for analysis, an inclination to act from feeling rather than from thought, an exaggerated individualism and a too narrow concept of social responsibility, attachment to fictions and false values, above all too great attachment to racial values and a tendency to justify cruelty and injustice in the name of those values, sentimentality and a lack of realism — these have been its characteristic vices in the past. And, despite changes for the better, they remain its characteristic vices today.”
W.J. Cash - “The Mind of the South” (1941)
It seems not much has changed in the southern GOP base in the past 72 years.
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As incredulous as it sounds, these attitudes seem to have spread north of the Mason/Dixon line. 
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