Tea Party really just Southern right whites

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"Contradicting the mainstream media narrative that the Tea Party is a new populist movement that formed spontaneously in reaction to government bailouts or the Obama administration, the facts show that the Tea Party in Congress is merely the familiar old neo-Confederate Southern right under a new label."

The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism

The goal, methods and passions of the Tea Party in the House are all characteristic of the radical Southern right

BY Michael Lind

August 2, 2011 | Salon

URL: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/02/lind_tea_party/index.html