there are multiple counties in alabama that are 50% not white, and some as high as 80% not white. despite the constant exogenous framing of The American South as a docile, easily oppressed place it is now and historically been very much contested. (full text)
large capital formations' strategic plans for the region are the same as they ever were (though somewhat different, tactically) and to achieve them requires ongoing, highly visible maintenance of its institutions alongside a constant occluding of its histories. this ongoing effort serves to attract the investment of capital, becalmed by the overt hostility and purported unchallenged control over the lives of a massive, highly diverse working class.
while we all understand the democratic party is no friend of the working class, it does live or die by the participation of black americans. outside of a few gerrymandered "safe" districts--which the national party tightly controls access to with graft and corruption--it has largely ignored the south, creating room for people unbeholden to the national party to exist and politically organize in places that "don't matter", making the party leadership's control over the region at large, unstable and uncertain.
no, to let all Alabamans express themselves, even symbolically at the ballot box, may lead to something that upsets the existing, highly profitable order. there is a bright future there for large manufacturers. better to keep hammering nails in, never letting up, or else something might escape that threatens the engine room of the entire core.
there are multiple counties in alabama that are 50% not white, and some as high as 80% not white. despite the constant exogenous framing of The American South as a docile, easily oppressed place it is now and historically been very much contested. (full text)
large capital formations' strategic plans for the region are the same as they ever were (though somewhat different, tactically) and to achieve them requires ongoing, highly visible maintenance of its institutions alongside a constant occluding of its histories. this ongoing effort serves to attract the investment of capital, becalmed by the overt hostility and purported unchallenged control over the lives of a massive, highly diverse working class.
while we all understand the democratic party is no friend of the working class, it does live or die by the participation of black americans. outside of a few gerrymandered "safe" districts--which the national party tightly controls access to with graft and corruption--it has largely ignored the south, creating room for people unbeholden to the national party to exist and politically organize in places that "don't matter", making the party leadership's control over the region at large, unstable and uncertain.
no, to let all Alabamans express themselves, even symbolically at the ballot box, may lead to something that upsets the existing, highly profitable order. there is a bright future there for large manufacturers. better to keep hammering nails in, never letting up, or else something might escape that threatens the engine room of the entire core.