C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.
“IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE that a region with an entrenched Bourbon aristocracy and one-party rule has important deficits in both democracy (competitive electoral politics) and liberalism (individual rights and freedoms). While voter turnout is an imperfect indicator of the health of a democratic system, low turnout combined with an entrenched ruling elite and more illiberal policies points to a region that suffers from what in national contexts might be called a democratic deficit. In every midterm and presidential election since at least 2010, voter turnout in the South on average has lagged behind turnout in the United States as a whole, sometimes by as much as 3.5 percent of eligible voters.
At the same time, the liberal values of pluralism and protection of minority rights have undergone severe challenges owing to the region’s long history of racism, segregation, patrimonialism, and terrorism, all at times sponsored by the state.”
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And the South’s long history of racism, segregation, patrimonialism, and terrorism as sponsored by the state has been invigorated and renewed the benefit of a conservative Supreme Court hostile to the liberal values of pluralism and protection of minority rights,
Racist Republican-controlled Southern states are at liberty to disenfranchise minority voters and deny voters of color national representation.
“IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE that a region with an entrenched Bourbon aristocracy and one-party rule has important deficits in both democracy (competitive electoral politics) and liberalism (individual rights and freedoms). While voter turnout is an imperfect indicator of the health of a democratic system, low turnout combined with an entrenched ruling elite and more illiberal policies points to a region that suffers from what in national contexts might be called a democratic deficit. In every midterm and presidential election since at least 2010, voter turnout in the South on average has lagged behind turnout in the United States as a whole, sometimes by as much as 3.5 percent of eligible voters.
At the same time, the liberal values of pluralism and protection of minority rights have undergone severe challenges owing to the region’s long history of racism, segregation, patrimonialism, and terrorism, all at times sponsored by the state.”
Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South
Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.
www.thebulwark.com
And the South’s long history of racism, segregation, patrimonialism, and terrorism as sponsored by the state has been invigorated and renewed the benefit of a conservative Supreme Court hostile to the liberal values of pluralism and protection of minority rights,
Racist Republican-controlled Southern states are at liberty to disenfranchise minority voters and deny voters of color national representation.
