On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Max Sawicky wrote: > I would put a much more benign construction on these > two cases, namely that somewhere inside the Southern > white working class, Bible-thumper or otherwise, is a > constituency susceptible to left economic populism, and > the emergence of such a tendency would radically transform > U.S. (and world) politics. I don't disagree with this, in principle, I just see precious little evidence of it. A quick look back at history to the early part of this century shows that Knights of Labor, IWW, and Socialists had a meaningful presence in Southern / Western states. Even pseudo-populist Huey Long had better ideas that the most liberal Democrat does these days. > To appeal, however, such a > populism would have to forswear a number of currently > fashionable liberal and left hobby-horses. Which ones? > > MBS > > -- Joseph Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
