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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because those states are horrible. Have you ever visited one of them? I have *shudders* Never again.[/quote]

You are a good example of why people in the South distrust and dislike DC.

Are you just opposed to being around poor people or being reminded of the legacy of a slave economy?  Can you recognize anything good in the region that gave America some of its finest writers and musicians?  Whose black pastors led America's civil rights movement?  Can you recognize that black Southerners were never given the compensation promised and that this fact stalled economic growth?  That, in the false promises and manipulation by the ruling class of these states, poor white Southerners were given black Southerners as someone to blame for their misfortune?

I'm a white Southern liberal who frequently finds herself in the middle of conversations like this. Until we solve this problem of rural white Americans communicating with urban elites, we'll see increasing polarization and a populism that leads to an authoritarian state. How will that serve those of us who live in the urban mid-Atlantic or Northeast?

I'd counsel DCUM posters to read Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Cooperhead to get a little insight.  If it doesn't move you, there's something wrong with you. Find a way to talk to the people of Alabama and Mississippi that doesn't make them hate you. This population has seen rapid change and globalization that has cost them their livelihoods.  Understand it, or just sit back and endure the unfolding catastrophe.

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Nice speech.  Now what do you tell the rural white Americans who hate DC why they should try to understand it?[/quote]

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