06.25.13
WhiteManistan Revival Act
Cold Civil War 2 just got hotter, courtesy of SCOTUS. The new disenfranchisement laws are already being written up in WhiteManistan. Is there anyone left who thinks this isn’t going to happen?
Goodness, how delicious! Eating goober peas! Wait for the yellow lettering.
Now it’s time to shoot all the liberals down
And take everyone else we hate and run them out of town
— Goober Peas, 2013
WhiteManistan, naturally, is not just location or the south. It’s an
outlook, a bleak philosophy that imagines a country that never existed, a demographic of bigots who never see themselves that way. The neo-Confederate sentiment is not just the old Confederacy.
From the New York Times:
Echoing the views of many on both sides of the debate, Mr. Coleman said that with voter ID laws in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania, and with problems with Hispanic access to the polls, maybe the South was not the center of the fight anymore. “I’m not so sure that there aren’t other jurisdictions in the country that are equally, if not more, in need of this than the South,??? he said.
Jerry Wilson, a lawyer in central Georgia who has worked in Voting Rights Act litigation for 25 years, was not so sure.
“I think we’re in big trouble,??? he said, reeling off a list of counties in the region that have up to now been hemmed in by the Voting Rights Act from making what he says were discriminatory voting changes.
Potential for discussion: What would a hot Civil War 2 look like in today’s United States? What would happen if the President mobilized the National Guard and deployed it to guarantee non-interference with voting in districts, cities or states where new legislation threatened to decrease and or render illegitimate specific voter participation for the 2014 mid-term elections?
What effect will today’s SC decision have on the frequency of domestic terror actions by the violent right in the US, keeping in mind a recent West Point study that posited increases in such terrorism when the political climate was viewed as growing more sympathetic to the beliefs of those with the potential to commit it?