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June 14, 2005
Ruy Teixeira's Message to Radical Progressives: "Forget the South"
I'm a New Southerner but not the way Walker Percy defines one (Do you want a portrait of the New Southerner? He is Billy Graham on Sunday and Richard Nixon the rest of the week. He calls on Jesus and steals; he's in business, he's in politics.). But as a Clintonian New Southerner, I have to agree with Dr. Teixeira in one of his recent blogs called More on the Democrats' Southern Problem :
Radical Progressives: Forget the South. More radical thinkers question the continued logic of nationwide, regionally apportioned parties pandering to eclectic blocs; they claim that, in today’s setting, there is no sense trying to craft a hoary geo-national majority. These creative Democrats, armed with intellectual theory and think-tank resources, reject the politics of philosophical accommodation; instead, they imagine a differently defined, differently based, truly progressive agenda for Democratic America. Expectedly, many of them urge their party to forget the South altogether.
Posted by wjbailes at June 14, 2005 05:28 PM
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