A Red Dixiecrat Dawn?
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Is America turning into Dixie? And, if it is, is that a bad thing?The controversy over the blue social model keeps heating up. With the controversy over Wisconsin’s restrictions on public employee unions metastasizing from the Madison protests to what increasingly looks like a national political battle, the blue state and red state models of social development and economic governance seem to be at daggers drawn.
Is America turning into Dixie? And, if it is, is that a bad thing?The controversy over the blue social model keeps heating up. With the controversy over Wisconsin’s restrictions on public employee unions metastasizing from the Madison protests to what increasingly looks like a national political battle, the blue state and red state models of social development and economic governance seem to be at daggers drawn.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/17/a_red_dixiecrat_dawn_252080.html