re: #31 Decatur Deb

Tell me. I spent most of last week changing a 5 wk old.

And you succeeded in changing him/her. He/she is now a six-week-old.

Amazing!re: #8 freetoken

It wasn’t always like this. Back when the GOP was the progressive party it was more friendly to science. Even after TR left and the GOP became the party of big business it still was strongly modern - after all, science is the bedrock on which industry and modern commerce has been built.

With the rise of Nixon’s Southern Strategy and then Reagan’s religious coalition did the GOP begin to abandon its modernity.

Does that mean it was OK with you when the Democratic Party controlled the Deep South and all the mouth-breather types voted the straight D ticket?

I’m not trying to pick a fight here, just trying to figure out why the Southern Strategy is considered so bad. Is it because it enabled the Republicans to win once in a while?