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Red states are forming 'a nation within a nation' with laws that recreate 'a pre-1960s world' [1]

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Date: 2023-06-19  

Jennings complained that lynchings of Black people are outlawed. “Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope,” he said. “But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”

This was part of a much broader discussion re: murdering annoying journalists, having a friend with a backhoe and the availability of large open fields.

The recording was made by one of those annoying journalists - he left his phone in the room after the public meeting was over.

Perhaps Jennings felt shame after saying those things.

Perhaps the authorities told Jennings that they spoke to his friend with the backhoe and that for an additional $50, he'd take their counter-proposal under serious consideration.

Brad Reed / Raw Story

Ron Brownstein, a senior editor for The Atlantic, argued that many Republican-led states are essentially creating completely different countries within the borders of the United States. Appearing on CNN, Brownstein argued that many red states seem to be in a race to roll back a wide array of freedoms, with a particular focus on women's rights and LGBTQ rights. "I think that they are building a nation within a nation on all sorts of issues: LGBTQ rights, voting rights, abortion rights, these book bans, classroom censorship," he said. He then argued that these efforts have created areas of the country where many areas have vastly different legal landscapes for citizens simply depending on where they live. "That same effort that in many ways is attempting to reverse what has been six decades of nationalizing more rights and creating common rights that are available in every state," he said. "I mean, we are moving back toward a pre-1960s world where your basic civil liberties depended much more on your zip code."

The video of the discussion.

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