The South

 Sou(ch)thern

     George Packer, writing in The New Yorker, sends a warning to the Republican dominated South, though I doubt it will be heard, much less listened to. Two examples: 

"The region was an American underbelly in the semi-tropical heat; the manners were softer, the violence swifter, the commerce slower, the thinking narrower, the past closer."

When Ronald Regan... "began the 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, scene of the murder, in 1964, of three civil-rights workers, many Southerners heard it as a dog whistle."

Read it all here.