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Originally Posted by whell

Thanks for sharing this. It's been a while since I've read such a demigougic, hate-filled piece in WaPo.

Thanks! Your post motivated me to read this insightful and enjoyable op-ed.

I suspect this would be the paragraph that really set your teeth on edge....

Excuse me for extrapolating, but segregationists are not merit-scholarship winners. Racism is dumb and so are racists. The Democratic Party showed racists the door. The GOP welcomed them and, of course, their fellow travelers — creationists, gun nuts, anti-abortion zealots, immigrant haters of all sorts and homophobes. Increasingly, the Republican Party has come to be defined by what it opposes and not what it proposes. Its abiding enemy is modernity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...f8a_story.html