{"id":23550,"date":"2016-08-18T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23550"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:20:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:20:56","slug":"its-not-just-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/18\/its-not-just-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Just the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Often times, many northerners, like me, slip into the habit of considering extreme racism as a mostly Southern problem.&nbsp; Sadly, it just isn&#39;t true.&nbsp; My NJ father was such an extreme racist that he would have considered Rump Dump a moderate.&nbsp; It&#39;s mostly a Republican problem.&nbsp; The only difference between Rump Dump and other Republican politicians and pundits is that he comes out and says what they merely reflect with their policies and dog whistles.&nbsp; Check these Massachusetts Republicans out.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"USA-ELECTION\/TRUMP\" border=\"0\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0818TrumpHate.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"USA-ELECTION\/TRUMP\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts convoy of Trump supporters drove from Wrentham to Foxboro in their trucks, RVs and SUVs on July 31 and were caught on tape spewing racist epithets and calls for anti-black violence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Lynch the ni**ers by their d*cks!&rdquo; said one driver, <a href=\"http:\/\/winningdemocrats.com\/convoy-of-make-america-great-again-racists-cb-channel-recorded-lynch-all-the-ns-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Winning Democrats<\/a>, which highlighted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C86N_RZoLy4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube video<\/a> of what the &ldquo;Make America Great Again&rdquo; convoy talked about on its CB channel when they thought no one was listening.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Burn every single ni**er!&rdquo; said another driver.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All I know is we got plenty of trees to hang ni**ers from,&rdquo; said another.<\/p>\n<p>The convoy drove five miles from one township to another with their U.S. and Confederate flags waving&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2016\/how-trump-supporters-talk-when-they-think-nobodys-listening\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#FF0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/C86N_RZoLy4?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you&#39;ve ever been to MA, you&#39;ll recognize that accent.&nbsp; These were not Southern imports.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As convenient as it is to consider Trump the disease, he is not.&nbsp; Trump is just a symptom of what the Republican Party has become.&nbsp; They need to go the way of the Whigs.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often times, many northerners, like me, slip into the habit of considering extreme racism as a mostly Southern problem.&nbsp; Sadly, it just isn&#39;t true.&nbsp; My NJ father was such an extreme racist that he would have considered Rump Dump a moderate.&nbsp; It&#39;s mostly a Republican problem.&nbsp; The only difference between Rump Dump and other Republican <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/18\/its-not-just-the-south\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}