No.   Yet, you’d think it was if you live in America.  I’m so glad I’m headed for Tajikistan where they don’t yell racism whenever they lose.  It’s sad when you have to go to the former Soviet Union to escape group-think. When the Ten Commandments were written, racism was not in the top ten.  In [...]

Incumbent Blanche Lincoln’s (D-AR) win in the 2010 primary elections surprised the political elite.   They were similarly perplexed in 2008 when Arkansas and other states voted against Obama and still voted for Democrats to nearly every other political office.  How can deep-red Arkansas support an incumbent Democrat like Blanche? Arkansas and adjacent regions have long bewildered [...]

Red White and Blue States A future for America beyond Democrat and Republican You might have noticed a map generated by the New York Times after the 2008 Obama election. It shows the counties where more people voted for McCain than voted for Bush in 2004. These counties include most of rural Tennessee and Arkansas [...]