{"id":70896,"date":"2015-07-10T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70896"},"modified":"2015-07-10T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T23:22:30","slug":"politico-writer-michael-lind-calls-for-ethnic-cleansing-of-southern-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70896","title":{"rendered":"Politico Writer Michael Lind Calls For Ethnic Cleansing Of Southern Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Lind writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

All of this leaves little doubt that, in the absence of Southern exceptionalism, the U.S. would be much more similar to other English-speaking democracies, which don\u2019t subject their leaders to religious tests, don\u2019t suffer from high levels of gun violence and don\u2019t rival communist China and despotic Saudi Arabia in the number of executions per capita. Without the gravitational force exerted on the South, American conservatism itself would be radically different\u2014more Bob Dole than Ted Cruz.
\nThe northern progressives who joke about the U.S. jettisoning \u201cJesusland\u201d and merging with Canada will not get their wish. But there is hope: A combination of demographic change and generational change is weakening the ability of the old-fashioned South to skew American politics and culture in the future. Peripheral Southern states like Florida and Virginia are increasingly competitive, and the Deep South may join them in time. In Texas once-reactionary cities like Houston and Dallas are competing with Austin as tolerant meccas for transplants who prefer the Sun Belt to the Old South. Immigration into the South from other countries and American regions is breaking down local oligarchies and old folkways.
\nThe decline in Southern exceptionalism in time may lead to more of a convergence among the U.S. and other modern democracies. Let us hope so. We have had enough of the wrong kind of American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Lind writes: All of this leaves little doubt that, in the absence of Southern exceptionalism, the U.S. would be much more similar to other English-speaking democracies, which don\u2019t subject their leaders to religious tests, don\u2019t suffer from high levels … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whites"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t