Neo-Confederate Origins of Today's Tea Party Movement

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I think the best point made by the article was how the TEA party isn't really fiscally conservative, but rather selfish bastards who want to protect their own interests. They want to protect defense spending, most of which helps out the south, while slashing entitlement spending.

Of course entitlement spending helps out the south as well, and big cuts to medicare and social security without tax hikes for richers would cause a backlash in the upper south and places like appalachia. The deep south on the other hand.....

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You're a fan of slavery, Wormy?

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I love how the people belly-aching about slavery support underpaying, really enslaving, Mexican illegals for a vote bank.

No, you don't get it. Democrats want a vote bank and Republicans want cheap labor. Mexican immigration makes everyone happy. Although Republicans like to bitch about them being a vote bank and the Democrats like to bitch about how they are being "exploited"(consider the conditions they would have faced in Mexico). Awesome, isn't it?

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Blacks want to be enslaved again? That's news to me, though I could just be a closeted racist, who knows.

Or is the argument that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery?

Btw, why are you guys in the party of Lincoln?

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Right, because when someone says they are a neo-confederate, you immediately think of states rights issues such as legalization of gay marriage, pot etc. Absolutely ridiculous.

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Right, because when someone says they are a neo-confederate, you immediately think of states rights issues such as legalization of gay marriage, pot etc. Absolutely ridiculous.

I wasn't speaking about them, I was speaking about the modern left's knee jerk attachment to the federal government. Obviously I don't believe the dittoheads, beckites, etc. when they talk about local rule or individual rights, especially after 8 years of Bush.

I think their fear (at least for social liberals) is that giving more rights to the states would lead to rollback of civil rights legislation and other such achievements in enforcing equality. The last big push for state's rights was during the civil rights movement.