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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 12:12 PM Original message |
Even More than Race, the South Is About Exploiting Workers |
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F.C.James (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. I hate to say it, but it always has been |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I was going to say the same thing |
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spooky3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. A brilliant comic by Jen Sorensen nails it: |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. That and their religious belief that the poor etc are being punished |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. The same is true for the North, the West, and everywhere else |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 07:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. then you know NC is a "right to work" state |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:01 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I know NC labor law/history; not defending it. Tired of South being singled out. |
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specimenfred1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. The deep South keeps electing criminals |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:28 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Your post makes me "perplexed" since I have not defended those politicians |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 06:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton? |
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kwenu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
7. Please spare me the bullshit of the South and "race." The North is no damned better. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 08:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. North Carolina? |
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obiwan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. Try living in the Midwest. "Right To Work" State, my ass! |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. For years the Southern mantra of economic development... |
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psychmommy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 06:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. check out the privatized prison industry, |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
16. Glad I could still REC this! I live in a so-called right to work state. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:43 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. My favorite Orwellian phrase - Right to WORK! |
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Belial (503 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
17. Nebraska is the state to live.. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
18. Nothing makes white folks happier than telling black folks "it's not race, it's class." |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Racism is just a (very real) side-effect of the Class War. |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 02:10 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. I'm so happy!!! |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
20. Yeah, that Right to Work thang has really worked out |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
21. I have tried to get rid of Shelby and Sessions, but I am |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
23. The North industrialized on a foundation of cheap and child labor. |
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4_TN_TITANS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
24. Sad but true.... |
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