The Corners Of His Mind
by digby
Rachel did a nice job of slicing up Haley Barbour’s ridiculous assertion that the Southern Strategy was all about racial reconciliation:
[T]he people who led the change of parties in the South, just as I mentioned earlier, was my generation. My generation who went to integrated schools — I went to integrated college, um, never thought twice about it. And it was the old Democrats who had fought for segregation so hard. By my time, people realized that was the past, it was indefensible, it wasn’t gonna be that way any more. So the people who really changed the South from Democrat to Republican was a different generation from those who fought integration.
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It really is a sign of progress that the right is busy rewriting history to portray themselves as the liberators of the African Americans. If they could do it without also falsely claiming they are victims of reverse racism and religious persecution people might even allow them to pretend it’s true. Unfortunately, their new routine is just the 21st century version of the the same old nonsense wrapped up in victimization instead of superiority. And it’s no less noxious since it casts still relatively powerless African Americans in an oppressor role, which is sickening.
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