Slog - Comments on Insomnia: The Southern Strategy Edition http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition An old, old joke from A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South, by folklorist B. A. Botkin: A Northerner and a Southerner were discussing matters political in the smoking compartment of a Pullman, when the Northern asked: ""Why is it that you men of the South are practically all Democrats? In the North we divide; there you will find Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Independents, and so forth, while you of the South stick together in the Democratic party. Why is this? Why, for instance, are you a Democrat? "Well," drawled the Southerner,... Copyright 2008 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:46:06 -0800 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:35:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in STL I heard that joke two days ago. At my school:
The University of the South. And people still believe it, except you know, the other way around.

]]> Will in STL http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161655 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161655 2008 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:22:14 -0800 Comment by Hrmmmm Depending on how old it is, I've got to wonder if that joke refers Lincoln and how his republican party (my how they've changed!) ended slavery, which took all of those "horses" away from the south.

]]> Hrmmmm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161681 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161681 2008 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:03:07 -0800 Comment by max solomon and now, white southerners are all republicans. it all works out.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161699 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161699 2008 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:26:31 -0800 Comment by Seajay Amusing ... it just doesn't happen to apply anymore, but still amusing.

I hope this isn't meant to set us up for a wave of other posts having to do with the Old South when what we need to do as a community is look ahead.

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/insomnia_the_southern_strategy_edition#c1161700 2008 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:27:57 -0800 Comment by Big_K Coming from a long line of Southern Yellow-Dog Democrats, @2 has it exactly right. My Grandfather was a Democrat because Lincoln and the Republican party were responsible for Reconstruction and us losing that "War of Southern Independence". In the 1950 & 1960s, Democrats in the south were exactly like the Republicans in the south are today.

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