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GeneralNathanJessup t1_jaehtca wrote

Reply to comment by tormunds_beard in New bill would eliminate Florida Democratic Party by oranjemania

The Southern Strategy by Nixon in the 1970's forced the Democratic Party to give up on racism.

Sadly, this means FDR and Kennedy were racists, but we can't fight history.

Thankfully progressive Southern States like Alabama continued to have Democratic Governors as late as 2003, which means they only recently became racist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Siegelman

And Arkansas only became racist in 2015 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Beebe

And Tennessee only became racist in 2011- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bredesen

And Georgia only became racist in in 2003 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Barnes

And Mississippi only became racist in 2004 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Musgrove

And Texas only became racist in 2006 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Richards

And Louisiana has been cured of racism it seems, because they have a Democratic governor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bel_Edwards

Florida turned to the dark side in 1999 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_MacKay

Kentucky has been cured of racism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Beshear

South Carolina became racist in 2003 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hodges

North Carolina is free of racism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cooper

Virginia waited until 2022 to become racist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cooper

History is a stubborn thing, isn't it?

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CoolmanWilkins t1_jaegr2n wrote

Reply to comment by JimC29 in Chicago man arrested twice in one day for breaking into cars — while on electronic monitoring for breaking into cars by Pathetian

The problem is that there is a lot of evidence that justice reform efforts being explored today do work in many ways, and are generally evidence based, but only go so far in a society that has trended towards becoming more economically and socially unequal.

It has generally been established that more unequal societies have more crime, and that much of the correlation comes from conspicuous consumption in an unequal environment. Altogether it is not surprising that many parts of the United States are currently on a path towards increasing crime rates.

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