The South and Health Reform

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The South and Health Reform
Sunday afternoon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi marched to the capitol arm-in-arm with Rep. John Lewis of Georgia for the health care vote -- a bit of political theater designed to draw parallels between health reform and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
Tea party protesters unwittingly helped make the connection when they shouted "nigger" at Lewis during a Saturday rally. But whether or not HR 3590 should be put on the same level as, say, the Civil Rights Act, one point is indisputable: Yesterday, as in 1964, the South ended up on the wrong side of history
(Ficklin Media Note I have suggested this time and time again, we have once again returned to the 1850's enmeshed and enthralled with the ideological battles of state's rights, individual property versus public benefit and who has the right to pursue life , liberty and pursuit of happiness.)