In case you didn't know

[Diogenes]

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Elected politicians could be described as lightning rods, and/or figureheads, and their antics in Washington DC are largely for show.

Unelected bureaucrats and "advisers" do most of the governance.

In the United States of America, the enormous bureaucracy has much more autonomy than a lot of of other leading nations allow.

You may be familiar with Cabinet Departments, which are theoretically run by presidential appointee. If you aren't, look it up.

You may not know of the existence of independent executive agencies, whose heads report directly to the president.

Unlike the larger cabinet departments, however, independent agencies are not subject to the regulatory authority of any specific department.

They comprise a major segment of the sprawling bureaucratic edifice that is the modern federal government.

Independent agencies include the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That's just a sample.

Another subgenre is called government corporations.

These are agencies formed by the federal government to administer a quasi-business mission.

The regulatory functions they fulfill are partly subject to market forces, and theoretically they have the ability to generate enough funding (typically by charging "fees") to be self-sustaining.

However, unlike a private corporation, a government corporation does not have stockholders. It has managers. This distinction is important because whereas a private corporation’s "profits" (if any) are distributed as dividends, but a government corporation’s profits perpetuate the enterprise. Unlike private businesses, which pay taxes to the federal government, government corporations are exempt from taxation.

The most widely-known government corporation is the U.S. Postal Service.

Now, you know.

That is all.

 

[Diogenes]

 

[Diogenes]

MYTH (1).... In order to be competitive in the South, Republicans started to pander to White racists in the 1960's.

THE FACTS...Republicans actually became competitive in the South as early as 1928 when Republican Herbert Hoover won over 47% of the South's popular vote against DEMOCRAT, Al Smith. Then in 1952 Republican President Dwight Eisenhower won the Southern States of: Texas; Florida and Virginia. In 1956, he picked up: Louisiana; Kentucky and West Virginia too. And this was after he supported the Supreme Court decision in "BROWN vs BOARD of EDUCATION" that desegregated public schools. It was also after he sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock Central High School to enforce racial segregation.

MYTH (2)....Southern DEMOCRATS angry with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 switched Parties.

THE FACTS....Of the 21 DEMOCRATS who opposed the Civil Rights Act, just ONE became a Republican. The other 20 continued to be elected as DEMOCRATS or were replaced by other DEMOCRATS. On average, these 20 seats didn't go Republican for another 25 years.

MYTH (3)... Since the implementation of the "Southern Strategy", the Republicans have dominated the South.

THE FACTS... Richard Nixon, the man who is typically credited with creating "The Southern Strategy" lost the deep South in 1968. In contrast, DEMOCRAT Jimmy Carter nearly swept the region in 1976, nearly 12 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Then in 1992, over 28 years later, DEMOCRAT, Bill Clinton, won: Georgia; Louisiana; Arkansas; Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia.

The truth is Republicans didn't hold a majority of Southern Congressional seats until 1994, 30 years after the Civil Rights Act.

In short, if the Southern "Red-Necks ditched the DEMOCRATS because of the Civil Rights Law passed in 1964, then it's kind of strange that they waited until the late 1980's and early 1990's to do so?

SO WHAT HAPPENED ?

WHY DOES THE SOUTH NOW VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY REPUBLICAN? The reason is because the South itself has changed. Its VALUES have changed.

The racism that once defined it does not define it any more. Today its values are CONSERVATIVE: pro-life; pro-guns and pro-small government. Southern Whites are more likely to vote for a Black Conservative like Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, than a White Liberal.

Like other regions of America, the South increasingly votes VALUES and not skin color.

The myth of a "Southern Strategy" cooked up by that Devil incarnate, Richard Milhous Nixon, is just an excuse DEMOCRATS have made up for losing the South and a means to smear the Republican Party with baseless allegations of racism.