Just stop! I am getting so tired of some people here on Daily Kos going oh so high moral we are better than anyone else who lives in the hillbilly and redneck South. Stop painting everyone who lives in the South with your bigot brush. I live in North Carolina. We are as gerrymandered as the rest of the country. Many of our people were unable to vote because the voting hours were changed so that working people could not vote. Do you really think I like having Virginia Foxx as my representative?
We have many progressives who are working very hard here in the South. You have heard of the Moral Monday movement with William Barber, yes it started right here in North Carolina. The world’s largest gay owned business is Replacements Ltd. located right here in North Carolina. Look at the list of DKos groups. There are progressive groups all over the South. We are working just as hard as the progressives who live in the North, Midwest, and West.
When you paint the entire South with the same bigot brush you are displaying the same bigotry you claim to be against. You are ignoring the thousands and thousands of progressives who are fighting to make a difference. There are bigots in all the states not just the South. Call out the real bigots but don’t condemn a whole area of the United States. Progressives everywhere deserve support.