How Trump and the GOP will try to turn the entire country into Dixie

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in Mississippi or Alabama? Well if the GOP has its way, you’ll get the chance to find out.

That’s because Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, through the executive branch leadership now being assembled and the legislative priorities they have laid out, are preparing to take the economic, political, and social arrangements of the South and spread them across the country.

The desire to southernize the entire United States is not new, and in some ways it’s been happening for a while, at least where Republicans have control of government. But now that Republicans have complete control in Washington, they’re going to try to accelerate and deepen that process. Let’s look at it piece by piece:

The Southern economic model. The first and most far-reaching component of this project is to take the Southern economic model national. The foundation of that model is the elimination of collective bargaining and the destruction of the labor unions that are able to negotiate higher wages and better benefits for workers. The Southern model replaces the North’s high-wage, unionized manufacturing with a low-wage, low-benefit version that has succeeded in drawing many factories southward. Southern states have lured companies with gigantic tax breaks and the promise of a powerless and desperate workforce. The result is often more jobs in those Southern states, but worse jobs. And what those states give up in taxes means poorer schools and fewer social services.

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[uponit7771]

1. The United States Like Kansas here we come, a Pence wet dream

[Chasstev365]

2. NOT ON MY WATCH!

We shall fight them in the hills, we shall fight them on the beaches; WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER!

[superpatriotman]

3. He's a Yankee carpetbagger

Not a Son of the Confederacy

[yallerdawg]

4. I don't wonder what it would be like.

I live in Alabama.

I live in a Blue county, in a blue stretch of counties.

Until Obama was elected, this state had a Democratic state legislature since Reconstruction!

A Democratic governor - now completing his prison sentence - recruited automotive to the state. Mercedes-Benz.

Followed by Honda and Hyundai. And many other foreign corporations.

The question I have now is - if everything is so much better under Democrats - why is it Republican values are spreading coast to coast?

Why do we have a Republican Congress and now a "Republican" corruption at the top?

Why aren't there staggering death tolls all across Dixie? Why aren't we migrating to Blue havens?

You know why?

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

[KamaAina]

5. As long as they turn it into New Orleans, I'm down with that.

I'd also settle for Atlanta.

[Raine]

6. NOT going to happen here in the nation state of California!

[resistance2016]

7. Living in the South is the closest thing to Hell I know

Here in central Georgia, there are very few jobs, and even if you have a job, you're lucky to make minimum wage. No amount of college will do any good when looking for work. There's a church every 20 feet, and they're always full on Sunday, but ask anyone at any of these churches to help you and they'll look at you like you're the elephant man. "Eating out" here means going to sit down at McDonalds to eat a 5000 calorie deathburger, and yes, those stains on the floor are dried piss. Unless you're in downtown Atlanta, the lights go out at 8 and you go to bed because good luck finding anything else to do. Oh, and if you've never experienced the horror of dial-up, you will soon. I hate living here.