redneckgaijin

... in fact, we're exporting it, not that the rest of the world is in any way short of bigotry.

On this date a century and a half ago, the Texas secession convention voted 171 to 8 to take Texas out of the Union.

The next day they adopted a statement of the reasons why they seceded:

...We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states. . .

(emphasis in the original text)

This sort of language was typical for the leadership of the South, and indeed the conservative politicians of most of the country. In 1861 the Republicans were the liberal party.

And today, a hundred fifty years later, we have a conservative politician calling for another country to enact and uphold prejudice and hatred by expelling those who are different.

Potential 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that if Palestinians want an independent state, they should seek it from Arabs — not Israel.

. . .

He called the demand on Israel to give up land for peace an "unrealistic, unworkable and unreachable goal."

. . .

"There are vast amounts of territory that are in the hands of Muslims, in the hands of Arabs. Maybe the international community can come together and accommodate," he said in a meeting with reporters.

. . .

He said any peace agreement has to recognize that "the Jewish people have indigenous rights to the land in which they occupy and live and it goes back not 60 years or 80 years but it goes back 3,500 years."

The South is not dead. It has arisen once more- as the Tea Party and the Republican establishment.