My migrant worker friend got published in the Daily Beast last month.

“Do we have to have a thousand dead?” asks Anderson. “Do we have to have a bunch of kids? Do have to have—God forbid, I hate to even say this—but do we have to have some indication that we have a bunch of dead terrorists? Would that get Washington’s attention?”

That's one damn good story.

Ole Hurman Talmage was a 2nd generation
race baiter.Learned it from his pappy.

The legendary Georgia Governor,Gene Talmage.

From FDR in '32 thru JFK in '60, in ole Hurman & Gene
Talmadge's Georgia, Democratic candidates for president,
won big.Even the king of race baitin' & party switchin',
Strom Thurmond,couldn't beat Truman in '48.

Because the piney woods & wool hat folks loved the New Deal.

But after the passage of the '64 civil rights act.
Georgia went for Goldwater,Wallace & Nixon.

The piney woods & wool hat folks may have loved the
the New Deal but they didn't cotton to intergration.

A candidate for governor of Georgia won with the slogan:

"Not one..no not one."

Meaning not one white child would ever attend school
with one black child.

However,segragationalist Dixiecrats,supported New Deal
programs.

I agree with the story linked...with one bone to pick.

We Democrats simply could not continue looking the
other way..when we had folks like Georgia Governor
Lester Maddox & Alabama Governor George Wallace in
our Party.

We had to purge the Dixiecrats from our ranks.

That Dems ought to not get hung up on social issues so as to push through sweeping economic reforms. Only problem is, this is every much a class issue as an abortion issue. Those who are going to be hurt the most by this amendment will be poorer women.

And it also begs the question--at what point do we draw the line? Should we not have supported civil rights in the 1960s because that alienated Southern whites who occasionally supported the Democratic economic agenda? That almost seems to be what the author is saying.