No Southerners in Obama's Cabinet

[tarheel-leftist85]

Oh, yes, you Northerners sure are progressive:  Eric Holder, defending corporations that gun down labor leaders in Latin America (the Chiquita company); Goolsbee and Volcker, economic darwinists extraordinaire.  How did school busing in Boston go?  Tell me, what two states are home to the most klan members?  But Obama & co. are all pro-choice and culturally liberal, so it's all good.  And then there's that pesky, subjective exit poll data that shows Obama improving upon Kerry's numbers with just about every demographic in North Carolina and Virginia (in the face of being called socialist), incl. those "close-minded" Evangelicals whose churches somehow find their way into every single state in the nation.  Fine, if you think the Democratic Party should extricate itself from a region that will about 38% of the population (and when you do, believe me, you sacrifice other places too), be prepared to be a minority party.  Of course, then you can be EMO about it and print your United States of Canada maps, talking about how liberal you are.  I guess we can have two libertarian major parties (one that just plays the culturally-populist card, though Mitt 3.0, might go Ayn Rand on us again) that cater to wealthy Northern college kids, the only ones who know all about the world and open-mindedness.

Oh, the South has problems.  But those problems stem from an economic system that values racial and cultural warfare.  Some of those states have wanted to be less a part of that (both the provocation and the reaction) and move on to things that in which politics can really effect change (putting food on the table and economic justice and job secuirty, not making us more "moral" or "tolerant").  Notice how, specifically, North Carolina hasn't had same-sex marriage ballot measures?  Notice how, after 32 years of voting for Republican presidential candidates, enough of us decide that we'd go Democratic the year they nominated an African-American.  The North is becoming just as reactionary as Alabama whites--except coming at it from a different angle (reactionary to reactionaries!).  They'd rather talk about how pro-choice or open-minded they are than prosecute war profiteers and white-collar thugs.

Grow. Up.