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If I am understanding your point correctly, a high-school diploma in one part of the nation may well represent a different level of education than a high-school diploma in another point of the country. And I think that's correct. I also doubt that the PRRI study factors that discrepancy into its report.

I do also think that the way religion plays out in the South, the way it imbues our culture--and the way in which it is distinctively different in much of the South--is an important explanatory factor here. And, of course, religion and education interact in our region. A person only has to look at the attempt of some religious groups to control the curricula of even public schools when it comes to matters like teaching evolution to see that.
Posted by William D. Lindsey]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:12:00 -0500 Arkansas Times
"The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Badger State finds Obama with 49% support to Romney’s 46%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, while another two percent (2%) are undecided.

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Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:24:21 -0500 Arkansas Times
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Posted by radical centrist]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:17:37 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:59:59 -0500 Arkansas Times
Were he to be elected Romney is going to back pedal like there's no tomorrow on all his Rwing proclamations. He would likely tweak Affordable Health Care but not change the premise. He is to be avoided due to foreign policy because he's lined up the old Bush crew ready to do their dirty deeds all over again.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:22:38 -0500 Arkansas Times http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/pawlent…
Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:25:01 -0500 Arkansas Times
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Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:02:31 -0500 Arkansas Times
Huckbee has no great political accomplishments other than being on the Arkansas tit for 12 years. We now know in the early years he was also getting under the table money from Big Tobacco to spy on Hillary Clinton. What other under the table money did he take or is taking now? How can enough people believe in him to keep Janet farting thru silk all these years later?

If we don't keep a lid on our religionists in 20 years Baptists will be beheading and stoning people, wearing dynamite on their chests and killing Ambassadors when some minor thing pisses them off. Our future can been seen in last week's film clips from Libya if we're not careful. People who live in fantasy are the most dangerous people on earth. And Huck is always there scooping up their cash that would better be spent on the education of the offspring of these sheeple.

However, as bad as Huck is, John Boozman is worse. From his seat-warming position in the Senate Boozman has the power to make life worse for us in the 99-47% and he showed us that yesterday when he joined 3 other Senate nobodies in defeating the bipartisan job corp bill for returning veterans of our senseless wars. Tyson just got some more bloody chicken plant workers because someone used John Boozman's voting hand to stop a good helpful bill for those we pretend are the greatest of the newer generation.

Our abused military should go out on strike over Boozman's bad vote. Our veterans should be standing outside of Boozman's offices throwing rocks and screaming threats today. But like he aways does, Boozman will get a pass because the rest of the time he doesn't really matter to anyone. A chicken fried steak and a good night's sleep will fix him up and he'll be back to daydreaming about cattle in his Senate seat tomorrow. A Hitler? No. A jackbooted SS officer? No. A little used tool to use in rotation to stop good things for good people? YES!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:45:18 -0500 Arkansas Times
To add to your argument I think there is a really ugly side of religion where it is used to gain political power, to implement a religious social agenda or to make millions. Frankly if Huckabee had not been a preacher, I don't think he could have ever been elected governor. Again I would argue that education can help someone recognize what goes on in the world and most importantly provide the ability to have a logical understanding about what people say and what they really mean. I also realize that having an education does not necessarily change one's view of the world. That statement in and of itself begs the question is that person educated? But (snark) as Lawrence O'Donnell said about mittens last night, one cannot cure stupidity.


Posted by TX-Travler]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:31:20 -0500 Arkansas Times
I'm far more concerned about suppression of speech and information in our country on so many levels... we watched with OWS over the last year, outside political conventions this summer... and the vast amount of secrecy granted by government. The way the press only covers major party candidates with 'quote approval', th NSA letter, patriot act and so on. If what remaining ability I have to say these things means the Hucks can spew their distractions, so be it.
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Posted by TX-Travler]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:15:08 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:53:31 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:15:56 -0500 Arkansas Times
I’m still "reviewing” (with disdain) Echols’ blasting of Jason Baldwin, the man to whom Echols owes his freedom. Doubt I’ll bother with Echols’ book.
Posted by Durango]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:06:08 -0500 Arkansas Times
Re: that base: there's a fascinating new report by the Public Religion Research Institute entitled "Beyond Guns and God: Understanding the Complexities of the White Working Class in America." The survey is here: http://publicreligion.org/research/2012/09…. The report defines "working-class" as "non-Hispanic white Americans without a four-year college degree who hold non-salaried jobs."

A key finding: Southerners are different. Southerners stand out. In mid-August, Romney was leading by 40 points among white working-class voters in the South. In other parts of the country, neither candidate had a commanding lead among working-class voters in the same time frame.

White working-class citizens are far more likely to live in households with firearms in the South than are their counterparts in other parts of the country.

There is far greater opposition to same-sex marriage among Southern white working-class folks than among white working-class Americans in other regions. While only 32% of white working-class Southerners favor permitting gay and lesbian people to marry, 44% do so in the Midwest, 47% in the West, and 57% in the Northeast.

"White working-class Americans in the West (40%), Midwest (48%), and Northeast (48%) are less likely than white working-class Americans in the South (58%) to believe that over the past few decades, the government has paid too much attention to the problems of blacks and other minorities."

I wonder what makes us so different in the South. The study is comparing people at the same educational level and with similar socioeconomic status. So the difference must be situated someplace else than in the area of education or socioeconomic status.

My guess: the significant difference between white Southerners and the rest of the country has everything in the world to do with the distinctive kind of religion that dominates in Southern culture. And with the racism that has historically been long embedded in that religious worldview--not to mention the male dominance and patriarchal values.

The world that Huckabee himself represents, knows very well, and has profited from . . . .
Posted by William D. Lindsey]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:02:07 -0500 Arkansas Times As for Dr. No--Rachel did not use that term, but she insisted that all of those four Republican senators had their own amendments in the law they voted against. Do the men have no shame? Is that the GOP of Lincoln, Gov. Rockefeller, Teddy Roosevelt and my greatgrandfather who was a member of the 10th Brigade? Again, talk about evolution.
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:46:28 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:32:38 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:12:50 -0500 Arkansas Times