The Core of Conservatism?

[Xavier_Onassis]

All "conservatives" are opposed to OSHA, because they like the idea of supercheap labor, which allows them to make superhuge profits.

The religious loonies prefer to be called "conservatives" because for them it's like wearing a suit and tie to church, a sort of symbol of respectability.

The band Alabama summed it up in their "Song of the South":

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There aint nobody looking back again.

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch.
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich.
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat.
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that.

Sing it...
Chorus

Well somebody told us wall street fell
But we were so poor that we couldnt tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But mr. roosevelts a gonna save us all.

Well momma got sick and daddy got down.
The county got the farm and they moved to town.
Pappa got a job with the tva
He bought a washing machine and then a chevrolet.

Sing it...
Chorus

Play it...

Sing it...
Chorus

Song, song of the south...
Gone, gone with the wind...

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

After Mr Roosevelt built the TVA and turned the backward rural Southern mountains into reservoirs and dams, the hillbillies moved to town.
They presumed to be Southern aristocracy and voted for guys like Lester Maddox.

As Randy Newman sang,  

Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well he may be a fool but he's our fool
If they think they're better than him they're wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that's where I made this song

We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town
And we're keepin' the niggers down

We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
And colleges men from LSU
Went in dumb. Come out dumb too
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they're keepin' the niggers down

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A lot of the "evangelicals" are the sons and daughters of the sort of folks Randy wrote this song for.
They are the ones who elected the Newtster,
and who were lured by Rove and other henchmen into actually voting, perhaps for the first time.

They voted for that worst of presidents, Juniorbush.

And they should be asahmed of themselves.

Juniorbush has left a lot of cripples behind to remind them that when it comes to politics, the country would be a whole lot better off if they would just listen a bit more critically or stay the Hell away from the polls and stick to NASCAR and pro sports...

[BT]

The rest of the redneck lyrics and the heart to newman's song.



Now your northern nigger's a Negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the nigger free

Yes he's free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he's free to be put in a cage on the South-Side of Chicago
And the West-Side
And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around
Keepin' the niggers down

[Michael Tee]

<<And to indicate, as others such as XO have here, that conservatives represent greed, is patently false. Conservatives are people and simply cannot be labelled in such a manner.>>

Not very convincing, Professor.  People can be greedy, and greedy people can make common cause.  IMHO, a whole lot of greedy people did make common cause, joined with or attracted a bunch of control freaks and that's conservatism.  

[Xavier_Onassis]

There was an ad in the middle of the lyrics, and I didn't copy the whole thing.

But Newman summed up the entire Post Civil-Right, "ex Southern Democrat turned Jesse Helms Republican" and his views in this song.

Still, the wealthiest and best educated Black people in the country are not in the South, but way up in the DC suburbs of Maryland: PG county, Suitland, Charles County. And they are hardly in cages.

[BT]

They are in cages in Atlanta?

[Xavier_Onassis]

They are in cages in Atlanta?
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I did not claim that there were cages anywhere.


The closest thing to cages related to Blacks vs Whites are the gated communities that rich people, most of them White, live in.

In Atlanta, there are gated , mostly Black communities. Atlanta is the closest thing integration has to a success story in the South. I think most people would agree with that.

But the mostly Black MD suburbs of DC are a lot more prosperous.

[BT]

The country club Republicans (many of whom are neocons)

Say what?