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SCENE:\u00a0 Avery LIBRELLE is waiting at the light rail station on University Avenue.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Seeing Mitch Berg driving past, LIBRELLE leaps and, incredibly, sails through BERG’s passenger side window and lands sitting upright in BERG’s passenger seat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 What the…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Hahahahahahahahaha, Merg!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You and your conservative teabagger friends “won” the South!\u00a0 Now, you can keep it?<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Um, right.\u00a0 Mary Landrieu lost, leaving not a single Democratic Senator, Governor or Democrat-controlled Legislative chamber in the entire old Confederacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 You got all the racists!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The journey you started in 1968, when you inherited all the racists with Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, is complete!\u00a0 You guys got the KKK vote!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 You’re still babbling about the so-called “Southern Strategy?”<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 The racists, upset about the Civil Rights Act, all voted GOP!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 OK – let’s accept for a moment purely for sake of argument that the South is more “racist” than the rest of the country – which is deeply debatable<\/a>, but again, it’s for argument’s sake – and that people vote first and foremost over racial issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Absolutely!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 So\u00a0the South voted for Nixon – but then, so did Vermont and California and, in 1972, Michigan, New York State, and even ultraliberal Minnesota.\u00a0 So they’re all racists, too, right?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 The South were voting their consciences, though!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Were they indeed?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Even though these rhetorical questions of your always end up with me falling into a trap that makes me look stupid and uninformed, I’ll say “hell yeah!”<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 OK – so the Democrats controlled every single southern Congressional delegation until 1994.\u00a0 And the GOP didn’t win a majority of southern Governor’s offices, to say nothing of state legislatures, until well into the 2000s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the way – the Klan hasn’t been a factor in Southern Politics since the sixties, maybe the seventies at the very latest.\u00a0 So it would be more realistic to say that Republicans oversaw the extinction of mainstream racism in the Deep South.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(BERG’s car pulls up to stoplight.\u00a0 LIBRELLE steps out, walks between traffic to nearest train station<\/em>).<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Avery?\u00a0 Avery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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