Andrea Grimes: never fucking come at me with the "why don't we just cut the South loose"/"why don't they just secede already" shit organizing WORKS

never fucking come at me with the "why don't we just cut the South loose"/"why don't they just secede already" shit organizing WORKS

Judson Blevins, City Councilman With Neo-Nazi Ties, Loses Recall Electionwww.huffpost.com Blevins, the subject of a recent HuffPost investigation, had been elected in Enid, Oklahoma, last year despite evidence tying him to a white supremacist group.

Red states are hostage situations on a massive scale.

I say that so much, I just have to start it and hit the middle suggestion a bunch.

I was born in Texas. I have two aunts and a cousin there. Another aunt and 3 more cousins in Mississippi. Aunt and uncle in Tennessee. A lot of them are Republicans, but it's exposed me to Southern cultures. So many good people in red states - and most of the Black people in the US.

as things progress i feel more hostile toward "flyover state" being an attitude than ever

Also it betrays all of our professed values to leave people behind

Yes! Nice one there. A lot of southern localities, if not entire states, are way more flippable than people think. Also, saying we should cut them loose is crazy racist. Like, that's where most of the Black people are in this country.

Do people still say that? It’s a callous idea and weirdly racist.

They certainly do! It is probably the most likely reason for me to yell at someone, in person or online 😭🤬 Such a callous and oblivious take

Oh you said callous too. Well, it's the truth

Right there with you. It makes me mental. As if decent, hard-working people haven't been there all along fighting the good fight.

I'm with you, but that's not the south. So it more proves that the disease is not limited to "the south" so cutting it off would make no difference. The disease was always inside of the entire country.

Thanks. We ain’t all bad down here