
On math, for example, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois and Connecticut immediately follow, topping southern states where legally enforced school segregation was a more recent phenomenon. What states experience the highest racial achievement gap and how is has that changed over the course of history?. and one of the reasons I will never go back. Read Dylan Matthew's jewel over at Ezra Klein's place - it points out something that hit me like a bolt the after living in the Northeast a few years.

we have a little banana cream pudd'n to go with it. and to go with our RC Cola, Slim Jim, and Moonpie of a glorious feast. Her backers include the “tea party” movement and Sarah Palin. She’ll join Bobby Jindal of Louisiana as the second Indian-American governor in the US. If Nikki Haley wins, she would be South Carolina’s first woman governor and the first Indian-American woman in the country to win such a post. She is favored to take the Governor seat in November. Nikki Haley won a runoff election yesterday as the South Carolina Republican governor nominee with 65% of the vote. Indian Americans are making waves in politics. He's now the favorite in the coastal 1st District, which has elected a Republican congressman for three decades. Before that, he served 13 years on Charleston County Council and was elected chairman four times. Scott, 44, owns an insurance business and became the first black Republican in the South Carolina Legislature in more than a century when elected two years ago. Scott, who won the runoff with 69 percent of the vote, is now poised to become the nation's first black GOP congressman since 2003. Tim Scott defeated Paul Thurmond, an attorney who is son of the one-time segregationist U.S. Voters in South Carolina nominated a black Republican lawmaker for an open congressional seat Tuesday, rejecting a legendary political name and adding diversity to the national party. Sure, this is old news - but I wanted to go there anyway.

Southern Republicans - especially South Carolina Rethuglicans - are nothing but racist, sexist, homophobic, redneck, uneducated reactionaries. Don't listen to what other say about you - just by your actions show your true self.
