This story from AmericaBlog.com (http://www.americablog.com/2007/11/global-warming-may-devastate-souths.html) which in turn picks up from a Washington Post story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111800501.html?hpid=moreheadlines&sid=ST2007111800526) looks at the irony of the voting patterns in the U.S. South and how the region elects politicians who refuse to admit that climate change is even occurring, much try to do anything about it. Virginia gets some much deserved badmouthing in the process too. Here are some highlights:
We've written before about how the South has a reputation for electing far-right Neanderthal politicians who don't care about much beyond God, gays and guns (embracing the former and the latter, and bashing the guy in the middle). And we've written about how the South's biggest problems, like poverty, have little to do with God, gays, guns or the Republican (or far-right Democratic) politicians they elect. It's therefore funny, yet again, that the conservative South is shooting itself in the foot by siding with politicians (that would be Republicans) who deny the existence of global warming. Why? Because according to a new study, America's South will be among the world's regions worst hit by the impact of global warming on local agriculture.
Still, when you consider that the South produced the likes of Jesse Helms and is still home to possibly the most bigoted state in the Union, Virginia (which has the proud honor of being the state that most fought against inter-racial marriage and now has possibly the most gay-hating legislation on the books in the entire country), there's still a certain understandable schadenfreude in watching their embrace of the far right lead to their slow self-destruction.
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