The rural white southern working class was never organized, and there was sure as hell no civil rights-labor coalitions in the communities Snoop and Mulberry are describing. In the Piedmont mill town where I grew up, there was no dirtier word than “union.”
I’m not arguing why or how it happened, I’m saying the hostility to organized labor anywhere south of West Virginia coal mines was real, particularly in the textile and furniture industries. The exception was Alabama, the most unionized state in the south, thanks to the steel industry in Birmingham and the shipbuilding and port workers in Mobile.
My point remains.
Shut the fuck up, lynch. You are a fucking dipshit. I vote Democratic these days and not only do I fly an American flag on the front of my house, I have a triangular-folded American flag proudly in a case in my home office, I have my late grandfathers' and my KIA cousin's Army dogtags all displayed next to it, and I have a U.S. Naval Academy flag on the wall in my home office from my time there. I love the United States of America and the United States armed forces as much as any red-blooded sister-fucking patriotic-cosplaying conservative. There are plenty more Democrats, centrists, and independents like me out there who feel the exact same. Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit.
lol - who are you? I have no clue.
Thanks for proving my point, lynch. That's exactly the kind of stupid bullshit you used to say under your old username, too. And I'll tell you who I am. I'm someone who thinks that anyone who changes usernames on a message board community is a pussy of the highest magnitude and worthy of derision.
It's true that we have better fashion sense than that. Won't argue there.
That's been true for three generations. Y'all are optimists. Good thing. If you were as cynical as a fifty-something as a twenty-something, you'd be Gen X and we know how they fucked everything up.
Every state I've voted in, that I can remember, randomized placement on ballots and indeed different ballots had different placements.Why is name placement important ? because voters tend to vote for the top name on the ballot in off year elections.The incumbent may have been a meek back bench rep. but he did understand election politics
Ha, he completely gave himself away with that one. lynch pulled the exact same rebuttal on me multiple times in the covid thread.
Yeah. Changing your name on a message board is peak cowardice. And especially in such a relatively small community such as this one where the regulars interact almost daily for years. It's easy as hell to pick up on people's posting styles, the phrasing they use, the things they say, etc. Such a cuck move, but then again, cuck fits lynch34 to perfection.
Well, I use to be HeelingAg, so there’s that …
Have you ever voted in the 4th district of North Carolina ?
Hey now. I changed my name when I signed up for this board. Not trying to hide who I was/am on IC (premiumblublooded); just never really cared for my IC handle.
Ha, fair enough, fair enough! I rescind my statement. In *some* cases, changing one's username on a message board is for perfectly legitimate reasons.
I don't remember what district I was in when I voted in NC (it was only one election). I wasn't questioning you. I mean, surely you know the rules of your own contest better than I do. I was merely saying that I find it odd because it's not how I've seen it done in the past.