The South just isn’t what it was - St Petersburg Times

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Did the North finally win the Civil War?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/article969751.ece

Shortly after Barack Obama won the presidency, the gleefully snarky Web site Gawker.com trumpeted "North Finally Wins Civil War." Speaking on behalf of what Sarah Palin and other conservatives famously dismissed as the "un-American" parts of America, Gawker rejoiced that the South is no longer the big dog of national political discourse, citing the New York Times and other respectable news outlets, which claimed Obama's new Midwestern wave drove old Dixie down.

Certainly Washington is minus the likes of Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Bob Graham and Elizabeth Dole. President Obama's Cabinet will have the fewest Southerners since the Kennedy administration. The Arkansas exuberance and Texas braggadocio that ruled the capital for 16 years have been replaced by no-drama Obama reserve.

Still, it's tough to be left out. U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia complained, "Where is the South in this administration?"

Actually, Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs comes from Alabama, new EPA head Lisa Jackson from New Orleans, and environmental adviser Carol Browner from Florida. Yet while there's something delicious about a white Republican fussing about a lack of representation with the nation's first African-American president in the White House, the congressman's question raises another: Is the South over?

[YOY]

1. Until the educational system is fixed all over the country.

The ignorant will continue to vote ignorantly.

[veritasvg]

2. Of Course Not...

...and it'll be back stronger than ever, depending on what happens over the next two years with regard to tax policy.

All those Texans aren't going away. All that Electoral power isn't going away. All that money in Dallas isn't going away.

I lived down there for years. Trust me.

[rrneck]

3. When they learn

to work and play well with others they can come back to the sandbox.

[ThomWV]

4. The south was over the day the bomb went off in Birmingham

Sunday, September 15, 1963. That day was to the old South what Katrina was to Bush's Presidency.