I wrote the following entry in 2006 on the eve of the congressional elections, after having visited my evangelical relatives in my hometown in Mississippi.
For a time I'd thought it a rather well plotted stalking of the "Southern Strategy", but then I found a certain Dylan song, and realized it blew my blog post out of the water well before I was born.
So here's what I was trying to say in 2006. The timeless accusation Dylan sang back in 1963 follows.
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