Wisdom
Armistead Maupin Logical Family Denial Racism The South	It's hard for the South to get things right from the start, because, ever since the Civil War, it has taught itself to equate righteousness with losing. "We must be right, y'all, because everyone else is against us." In my seventy-two years I have heard Southerners offer this excuse for everything from segregation to miscegenation laws to the 'religious liberty' currently invoked in the name of subjugating gay people. And in every instance, when the Supreme Court reminds them that decent people don't act this way anymore, they haul out the states' rights flag and brandish it in a Rebel-gray fog of amnesia.
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