rowantheexplorer:

Seriously, there are SO MANY of us on the left in southern states. When Trump and the Republicans say that if voting access was easier, they’d never win again? We’re who they’re talking about. The same motherfuckers have had an iron-fisted control of our legislatures, our courts, and our electoral college votes since before the Civil War. Sometimes they’ve called themselves Democrats, sometimes Republicans, but it’s been the same guys for 200 years. They now call their slave plantations “private prisons,” but it’s all the same old shit.

The US labor movement began in rural company towns, farmer’s cooperatives, and Appalachian coal mines, but y'all don’t wanna hear that. No, you’d rather just insult millions of oppressed people with jokes about illiteracy, Evangelicalism, and inbreeding. Did it not occur to you that those are inflicted purposefully by the people in power? That the moment even more than a handful of us down here manage to get educated and organized, we’re way harder to control?

The people of the South need your support, not your derision. Help us organize, help us educate, help us get people to the polls, or you will never see your precious “blue wave.”