[lbo-talk] Re: blame the south?

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Mon Jan 10 16:58:21 PST 2005


Michael Pugliese wrote: Michael Lind Many Democrats blame the unenlightened people of red-state America for John Kerry's defeat. But most working-class Americans remain politically centrist and a rising number simply want to live in the fast-growing suburbs of middle America. Liberals should stop sneering at the people they aspire to lead.

--I'm always impressed how Lind can make generalizations about liberals or the left without needing any empirical verification for such claims. Or maybe he's been listening to long to freepers' characterizations of the left and liberals?



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