more Mason-Dixon Line politics

[Doug Millison]

"WASHINGTON - Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) Executive 
Director Jeanne Johnson Phillips today announced that the theme for 
the 54th Presidential Inauguration is "The South Rises Again." 
"President-elect Bush campaigned on a promise to `unite, rather than 
divide,' " said Mrs. Phillips. "But now that he has won, after the 
bloody but decisive battles in South Carolina and Florida, Dubya says 
fiddle-dee-dee, Lincoln was wrong: Divided we stand, united we fall!

"Why shouldn't Linda Chavez have slaves? Why shouldn't Gale Norton 
put slavery in context? Why shouldn't John Ashcroft talk to the 
journal of neo-confederacy Southern Partisan and defend slaveowners 
against the suggestion that they had "some perverted agenda"? Why 
shouldn't our new attorney general care more about the Unfinished 
Civil War than unnecessary civil rights? Why should Dubya have 
denounced the Confederate flag that once flew proudly over the South 
Carolina statehouse? Why shouldn't it fly proudly above his White 
House?  [continued at 
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/17/opinion/17DOWD.html]