The Patriot Post® · Democrats Dump Dixie?

After Sen. Mary Landrieu’s defeat in Saturday’s runoff in Louisiana, Michael Tomasky bitterly writes in The Daily Beast that Republicans can have the South – it’s a “reactionary, prejudice-infested place” anyway. “The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, trans-racial community, the crucial secular values on which this country was founded… I could keep this list going,” Tomasky says. “But I think you get the idea. Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything that’s good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment. A fact made even sadder because on the whole they’re such nice people! (I truly mean that.) With Landrieu’s departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats don’t need it anyway.” So Tomasky at least will take his ball and go home. And all of us racist Southerners can shut up. Question: Does this qualify as tolerance? More…