Sam Smith - As I've argued before, Donald Trump's politics are
remarkably similar to that of the southen Dixiecrats in the era before
the civil right movement. Just as in the old South, he is trying to
convince lower income whites their real problem is blacks and immigrants
rather than the new plantation owners aka corporate executives.
Further,
Trump won every formerly confederate state except for Virignia when he
ran for president and our regular accounting of objective rankings of
states finds every confederate state other than Virginia and Florida to
be among the lowest 15 ranked states.
As noted here before, the Civil War ended slavery and secession but not an awful lot else.
