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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…n your brown friend’s bathroom, go vomit your ignorance out. ‘Lota’ is the South Asian word for this implement, and the South Asian word wins, because we’re one-third of Muslims, so demography rules; built-in ‘Muslim showers’ today come in the form of hoses or in-toilet jets, present from Bangkok’s airport to Istanbul’s. A parking lota is just one you keep in the car for, you know… Ramada: Hotel chain that has been confusing recently-arrived immig…

Time to Loosen the Bible Belt

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ons of faith with lived practices. The values that many associate with the southern region and its brand of Christian piety—strong families, personal responsibility, moral instruction and education—belie the less than sublime material conditions on the ground. For instance, southern states have the highest rate of teenage births while states in New England have the lowest. Massachusetts, which allows same-sex marriages, typically has the lowest di…

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

…mainline and look at white Protestants overall (who lean Republican in the South), the thesis of my article is still true. Between 2007 and 2013, there has been a significant drop in the proportion of white Protestants in each of these states, ranging from a high of a 15-point drop in Arkansas to a low of an 8-point drop in Louisiana.” Notwithstanding this dispute between Jones and Grant, the outcome of the election will turn, obviously, on a rang…

Does Barack need the Black Church?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…than 13 percent of all civil rights movement-led activity, and polls among African Americans in Southern cities like Greenville and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reveal that of all persons considered credible political leaders within the community, only an average of 25 percent were preachers. So despite the notable African American ministers that have served public office, statistically speaking, most African American political leaders have secu…

Why I Will Not Submit to Arrest, Or, the Problem With Moral Mondays

By Amy Laura Hall

…tically and religiously charismatic hero is simply not true to the best of Southern populism. At our best, people in the South have agitated for change in break rooms, classrooms, prison yards and such, pausing for rallies rather than mistaking rallies for the real thing. While well-orchestrated arrests of large groups, at the instruction of a religious leader, may have the power of nostalgia, egalitarian democracy requires other models. It also d…

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…ental Justice, the Sierra Club, and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. The Deep South Center connection was crucial as many of its leaders are African Americans who reside in the New Orleans East neighborhood where the Vietnamese community is found. New Orleans East is a historically and predominantly African-American region—the largest in the city—so the prospects of cooperation between the two communities was vital. “Both communities have been willin…

Democratic Candidates Don’t Need to Get More Religious, They Just Need to Get Known

By Daniel Schultz

…ragmatically secular—endorsement by Rep. James Clyburn that saved Biden in South Carolina. And if faith outreach were to be a deciding factor in South Carolina, it might be expected that the winner would clean up among conservative voters, and perhaps not so well among the liberals. In fact, while Biden did perform considerably better among “moderate-to-conservative” voters than among liberals, he actually cleaned his opponents’ clocks across the…

Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare

By Julie Ingersoll

…re “politically incorrect”—were it to read: Democratic legislatures in the South [instead of just “Southerners”] established whites-only voting in party primaries. Because he says very little about contemporary Democrats, it’s clear that Barton’s purpose is to connect them with the racist Southern Democrats, while completely ignoring the relationship of contemporary Republicans with the racist South. Most glaringly, the Republican “Southern strate…

Gay and Lesbian Candidates Win Primary Victories

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…off for the Republican nomination for governor in my current home state of South Carolina. In the land of good-ol’-white-boys running the show, to see Nikki Haley come this close to the highest state office is breathtaking. What’s truly amazing however, is that Haley is the child of Indian immigrants and was raised as a Sikh before converting to Christianity. She has served in the state legislature for three years, so this woman knows how to win e…

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…evada—verge on tipping from red to blue in this election. The Republicans’ Southern Strategy reflects, not racism indigenous in the South, but racism imported to the North. It arose as a response to defeat. In 1948, after the first election after Roosevelt’s death, Republicans learned that they could not win presidential elections with former Dixie states and a belt of plains and mountain states only. In 1968, in the full tide of the Civil Rights…