{"id":126,"date":"2007-01-30T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/30\/moser-aint-whistling-past-nothing\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:56:39","slug":"moser-aint-whistling-past-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/moser-aint-whistling-past-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Moser ain&#8217;t whistling past nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The Nation, former Indy editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20070212\/moser\">Bob Moser gets his licks in<\/a> on the trendy idea of Dems running against the South:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a species of Democratic defeatism, this approach can hardly be topped. And for all the charts and graphs that accompany such strategic chess games, calls for a non-Southern strategy are rooted in cultural stereotypes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He quotes Southern Studies Chris Kromm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It ain&#8217;t wise, and it ain&#8217;t right. I can&#8217;t say it better than Chris Kromm, director of the liberal Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina. &#8220;For Democrats to turn their back on a region that half of all African-Americans and a growing number of Latinos call home, a place devastated by Hurricane Katrina, plant closings, poverty and other indignities&#8211;in short, for progressives to give up on the very place where they could argue they are needed most&#8211;would rightfully be viewed as a historic retreat from the party&#8217;s commitment to justice for all.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Nation, former Indy editor Bob Moser gets his licks in on the trendy idea of Dems running against the South: As a species of Democratic defeatism, this approach can hardly be topped. And for all the charts and graphs that accompany such strategic chess games, calls for a non-Southern strategy are rooted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}