African American

For almost a hundred years, they refused to join the Party of Lincoln because, well, Lincoln and were called boll weevil Democrats because their votes could always be counted upon by the Republicans. Once Civil Rights legislation passed in the 60s, they flooded over to the Party of Lincoln. Southern culture has always been fixed within Restoration amber, the county gentry at the top and a strict social hierarchy keeping the natural servants, POC and poorer people, far below them. They've always wanted to restrict the right to vote to the "right" people and they've always mourned the loss of the Articles of Confederation that gave the states the freedom to raise their own armies, mint their own money, and write their own international treaties.

I really had high hopes for Judge Roy Moore. I thought for sure he had the gumption to start the southern bible party or some such nonsense, but he kept going back to the Alabama supreme court like the proverbial bad penny. Now that he's out for good, maybe it will be his last hurrah. It will push the stewardship of the country by divine right aristocrats, the rest of us well served by their generosity of spirit and high ideals of good governance. Yeah, right.

Someone will eventually come along and do this, it's inevitable. The Republicans are finding them as difficult to get along with as the Democrats had. They do not compromise. They only subvert.