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...they are the 21st-century economic equivalent of Bull Connor.
Obama probably doesn't have the chutzpah to do it, but if this stalemate continues once he assumes office, he needs to call them and their henchmen out for the backward fools they are.
More than anything, it was moral suasion against the South -- then as now the most backward element of the American electorate -- that helped get civil rights legislation passed. We need to do likewise now economically -- get the rest of the country so angry at the South (and make it stick with boycotts, diminished tourism and the like) that its legislators will have to capitulate.
