My hope: is that it encourages other southerners to turn out for voting… because Mississippi (and Texas. and Kansas. and South Carolina) now breaks the illusion of, “my vote doesn’t matter because my state’s always red, regardless of my voting”. It feels like the “Southern Strategy” is falling apart.
I live in Louisiana, and our “generational farm-boy” Dem was <1% away from winning the Senate seat against a Trump sycophant… I couldn’t believe we even got that close; it’s fucking deep southern hoedown 'round most this state
My fear: complacency. And us US Americans are conditioned to be “Laissez-faire” about our democracy. Maybe this conservative/fascist shit will make Gen Z/A USians wayyy more aware of politics and class?
My hope: is that it encourages other southerners to turn out for voting… because Mississippi (and Texas. and Kansas. and South Carolina) now breaks the illusion of, “my vote doesn’t matter because my state’s always red, regardless of my voting”. It feels like the “Southern Strategy” is falling apart.
I live in Louisiana, and our “generational farm-boy” Dem was <1% away from winning the Senate seat against a Trump sycophant… I couldn’t believe we even got that close; it’s fucking deep southern hoedown 'round most this state
My fear: complacency. And us US Americans are conditioned to be “Laissez-faire” about our democracy. Maybe this conservative/fascist shit will make Gen Z/A USians wayyy more aware of politics and class?
There’s so much fucking work to be done
cries in Nebraskan