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[KoKo]

25. You'd need to read Joe Bageant's books to understand that culture....

But...yes, it's a terrible thing that the only recourse folks feel is to ally themselves with this kind of culture. But, to many of them...it's all they know. And, if your only access is corrupt politicians...(everywhere now) but, who've ruled the South for Generations, and Faux News that verifies to them that something is deeply wrong with our Policies and Banking/Wall Street Culture and Rush and Faux and CNN and much of the mainstream media speaks to you ....and you don't know WHY they want to speak to you ...then I can understand where it comes from.

I grew up there so I know what you say about it.

Hopeless youth without any prospects of getting ahead all over America in the "underclasses" which is quickly becoming more of us than anyone could have ever imagined back in the days when I got out of the South for Opportunity in the Northeast. But, those were the days when IBM was Hiring and the Tech World was just getting off the ground and Publishing and Arts and Media were in their Hey Day. Many from the South went to California for new opportunities and others, theatrical, writers, artists and activists went to NYC...

It's different for our youth today.....There's nowhere for them to go ...dumbed down, shut out and told that Chinese, Korean and Asian Workers are smarter and will work for less than they make in the low level Wall Mart, Food Franchise and other jobs they end up in because only the "select few, can become the Doctors, Lawyers and Chiefs on Wall Street.

These are the forgotten....because there's nowhere for them to go...so Guns, God and Football (sports), NASCAR and the rest are the only validation they have, these days to know that they even Exist!

Read Joe Bageant.. He died this year...but, he had a unique perspective on what's Wrong with the South and it applies to the Right Wing Rising all over the USA through the Religious Community which is the only place many of them find validation of themselves as human beings.

Just saying......