It's embarrassing and enlightening how quickly this thread has devolved into culture-war sectarianism in response to the notion that good policy and activism should transcend it. Food deserts are just as much a problem in the Black Belt, on Native reservations, and in cities such as mine as they are in white rural areas, and the political response to it should be blind to the partisanship of poverty. Blaming people for "voting against their interests" ignores the decades political agitation that have resulted in realignment. One of LBJ's first visits to promote the "War on Poverty" was to one of the most Republican counties in Kentucky, but there was at least in public none of the "kick them while they're down" scorn that the allegedly cosmopolitan have for those with different experiences and sets of values. Obesity, hunger, and "Mountain Dew mouth" are symptoms of deprivation, as much as smug suburbanites of all stripes cling to their neo-Victorian interpretation of poverty as a sign of moral failure.
Also, does this thread really need to be about abortion? I really, really, really don't think that it does.
I'll be very pleasantly surprised if I ever see Kingpoleon and Dule in the same thread without being at loggerheads over the entire foundation of their moral philosophies.
