As we learned when from the Sunnis in post-Saddam Iraq, when any minority has loses the disproportionate influence it used to have, it experiences power-withdrawal, and is convinced that it is being /under/represented.

The previous administration, formed by a President from Texas, had the advantage of a large number of Southern cabinet officials who hailed from Bush's part of the country. The loss of over-representation makes them feel /under/represented.

Maybe in Bobby Jindal's 2016 administration, Chicago will feel underrepresented, and Louisianans will reign supreme.

Well said, and a nice way to skewer the South's sense of fucked up manhood. I lived there for a long time and I got real tired of the KKA frat guys and their dress up days.
OK rant over. I must remember that REM is from Georgia. They're my favorite band! Perhaps they could play the inauguration.

It's almost as if when a party loses power, then the regions in which it has inordinate representation lose influence too.

But there's me and my tin-foil hat again.

Consider the following web site apropos:

www.fuckthesouth.com

Nice post!!, hope to read a lot from you soon.

A lot of Southerners are like professional victims. Ever since they got their sorry asses kicked in the Civil War, and the big bad federal government wouldn't let them enslave black people any more, and they had to be content with just relegating them to second class citizenship for a hundred years, and THEN they wouldn't even let them do that any more! BOO HOO

wtf? Someone pointing out an anomaly becomes a series of articles claiming disses by D.C. authors with nothing better to write about (not a secret cabal of southerners complaining) which leads to charges of southern whining and ultimately random hateful bashing. If you read the initial politico article, you'll notice the 'southern' politicians were told of the anomaly and pretty much said 'really?' and 'that's odd.'

The funny thing is that Ron Kirk doesn't seem to count?

I mean it's almost like "Southern" has a really specific meaning huh?

NS: We Texans don't consider ourselves Southerners, even though we were slave-owning and the last battle of the Civil War was fought a month after Appomattox at Palmito Ranch in Texas. This partially stems from the hubris involved with having been one's own nation for several years.

Never forget (how's that for a Southernism?) that white Southerners were the first beneficiaries of affirmative action, in the Constitution's "three-fifths clause," counting enslaved non-voters as 60 percent of a person for congressional-apportionment purposes. And for the 200+ years since, white Southerners have always expected a little something extra -- control of most congressional committees, turning a profit on federal appropriations vis-a-vis revenues, first and last word on military matters, draconian prison/execution regimes, and what have you.

One of the real delights of the Obama administration will be the political and cultural marginalization of the Old South.

Thanks
seslichat