# An Independent Southern U.S.

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**Created:** [November 19, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-independent-southern-u-s/641511 "2012-11-19T16:20:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-independent-southern-u-s/641511/6 "2012-11-19T17:42:51Z")

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> [@Human\_Action](#):
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> For me, a resident of Kentucky, this seems to border on caricature of the South as unchanged since the days of Bull Connor.

I posted this in the other thread. I suspect many of the examples have similar analogues in Kentucky.

> [@Why the hostility towards states that want to secede?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hostility-towards-states-that-want-to-secede/641174/179):
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> You keep saying that, but your beliefs about where an unfettered Louisiana would go on social issues is way out of line with the facts.
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> Louisiana passed (in 2004) a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage even though gay marriage was already illegal. Consensual homosexual _activity_ is legal in Louisiana _only_ because of Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down such laws as unconstitutional.
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> The Louisiana Senate passed [a blanket ban on abortions in 2006](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13154788/ns/politics/t/louisiana-senate-approves-abortion-ban/), and the House nearly passed a similar bill in 2011 (the only reason it didn’t was the loss of Medicaid funding that would result).
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> David Duke received 39% of the gubernatorial vote in _1992_. Let me say that again: your state nearly elected a Klansman governor 20 years ago. He had already served in the state House for two years at that point.
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> Most of your state is \*still \*under federal desegregation orders.
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> Louisiana public schools [are allowed to teach “intelligent design”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Academic_Freedom_Act#Louisiana_act).
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> What on earth can possibly give you the idea that Louisiana is a socially moderate state?

I don’t think we’d see a return to the Jim Crow South. I do think there would be a noticeable contraction of civil liberties for racial and religious minorities. Are you familiar with the Murfeesboro mosque controversy? It was just over the border in Tennessee.

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