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The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism

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he mainstream media have completely missed the story, by portraying the Tea Party movement in ideological rather than regional terms. Whether by accident or design,the public faces of the Tea Party in the House are Midwesterners -MN's Michele Bachmann and Joe Walsh of IL.But while there may be Tea Party sympathizers throughout the country, in the House of Representatives the Tea Party faction that has used the debt ceiling issue to plunge the nation into crisis is overwhelmingly Southern in its origins:The four states with the most Tea Party representatives in Congress are all former members of the Confederate States. The states with the greatest number of members of the House Tea Party caucus are TX (12), FL (7), LA(5) and GA (5).While CA is in fifth place with four House Tea Party members, the 6th,7th and 8th places on the list are taken by two former Southern slave states, SC &TN.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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