John Lacny wrote:
Chuck Munson:
> > I haven't read Frank's article, but this looks like a
> > good assessment of contemporary American
> > conservatism to me. Contemporary American
> > conservatism is motivated and driven by fluffy
> > cultural issues, not bedrock fiscal issues.
> As I tried to make clear in my blog entry, this is where I differ with
> Frank. It's not driven by "fluffy cultural issues," but by something much
> more profound and much more evil: racism. This is the way it's always been
> in the US, and it's still like that. When -- as Frank discusses -- the
> right-wing pundits talk about the difference between red states and blue
> states (I wish our side was the red states -- *sigh*), they're talking
> about the difference between places where white people live and places
> where black and brown people live.
Ummmmm....
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/election/map.htm
> A great number of issues break down to
> white supremacy, the great faultline of the US political economy: guns
> ("WE need guns to protect ourselves from black people"), taxes ("BIG
The gun thing in 'red states' is about -lifestyle-. As I said, I lived in Nebraska, and gun-owners I encountered out there didn't value their guns out of fear, racist or otherwise.