The idea of refusing to appoint Southerners to punish the region's politics is stupid
Nobody's suggested that. The idea of engaging in Affirmative Action for a group of Scots-Irish is just as stupid, and yet they seem to demand it of Presidential candidates to take them seriously.
EDIT: Furthermore, I believe the region should be punished, though more to the point it out to have been completely depopulated during the Civil War and filled with Northern immigrants. They have foisted upon the North time and again a cabal of incompetent yokels who are better at campaigning than actually governing. They have insisted upon a regionist economic policy in this nation that provides for their economic interests to the detriment of our own, while providing absolutely nothing in return. I have no use for the South, or Southerners generally, and I'd have just as soon given them their own nation just for the pleasure of watching it collapse into financial destitution within a decade. To hell with everything South of the Mason-Dixon line. Its entire culture is the byproduct of a psychological - and just as often physiological - degradation brought on by a potent combination of regressive religiosity and inferior genetics.
My thoughts exactly. The people down there are actually very creepy, especially in the bible belt towns.
