Alabama, really? The most country fried shit hole that isn't going to come close to flipping to any lib in the next 50 years, and they purge voters. Do they not have anything better to do?
The Doug Jones election scared them, so they had to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
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.
$440 a day and the only things you have to lose are your mind and your limbs
This was a 3-year retrospective cohort study of traumatic injuries in a midwestern pork meatpacking plant. Based on n = 5410 workers, this was a diverse workforce: Caucasian (56.6%), Hispanic (38.9%), African American (2.7%), Asian (1.1%) and Native American (0.8%). There were n = 1655 employees with traumatic injuries during this period. At 6 months of employment, the probability of injury was 33% in the harvest workers who were responsible for slaughter operations. The overall incidence injury rate was 22.76 per 100 full-time employees per year.
