Mark Schmitt on The Teapartiers

Mark Schmitt, executive editor of The American Prospect, exhibits some peculiar notions about the
teaparty movement and other critics of White House policies:

"..there is an aggrieved minority in this country -- maybe 15 percent to 18 percent of the population -- that will not go away. Their grievances are couched in terms of the health -care bill, government spending, or gun rights.."

Ultimately, he claims, its boils down to race and more importantly to the fact that "for the first time since President Rutherford B. Hayes ended Reconstruction, the white South does not control the country."

The Southern vote was critical for both Nixon, Carter and Clinton, he claims, and now that this white core has become sidelined the Southerners have become furious.

And the fact that teaparties have been taking place all over the country? Mark Schmitt:

"Not all the tea partiers are Southern, of course -- Bachmann is from Minnesota -- but the white South has always had satellites throughout the country."

So it's a Southern conspiracy now?

Mahatma Gandhi is to have said:

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

At first the Teaparty movement was ignored and ridiculed, now it seems the next stage has begun.

The kid in the photo above - which was featured in M Schmitts article - is of course also a Southerner, ...from Alaska.