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The desire to break unions is not the only motive for the Southern senators' dogged opposition to saving the U. S. auto industry. It is only part of a plantation mentality that never died in the South and that continues to hate the industrial, Yankee North. To them, it is a good thing to drive middle class working people to poverty, so that the hereditary aristocracy can feel secure and in control. There is no real loyalty to the Nation, since the South still does regard itself as fully American.
Now that we have Southerners out of the executive branch, the Obama administration and Congress should break the hierarchical power of the remaining Stennis-mold southern senators.
