The Great State of Alabama, as George Wallace used to call it, is in rebellion against the Federal judiciary. The Republican legislators are insisting vigorously on their right to jerrymander and deprive black citizens of an effective vote. They along with Republican legislatures of other the states of the old Confederacy are among the most vociferous in asserting their rights (or, to approximate their pronunciations, their raats!).

I have been looking at a ranking of states according to real per capita personal income and guess which are the bottom ten: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Arizona, West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Idaho, Louisiana, Alabama, and, last and least, Mississippi.

We have here states of the Old South and the South’s Western colonies. These fools, as they cling desperately to the “old ways” and the old white supremacy are, as they say, circling the bowl.