(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

[don doggett]

Doggerel
www.don-doggett.blogspot.com


--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Chris P <rasputin_ at hotmail.com> wrote:



> 
> I have no problem believing that some people favor gun
> control for fear of the "lower orders", or for
> racial reasons. But I do not buy into this as a general
> explanation of the entire phenomena; I do not see massive
> support for gun control in the Deep South, for example. 

Up until recently (within the last 30 - 40 years), the Deep South and the South in general would have been considered poor as a region, thanks largely to the lingering effects of Reconstruction. We definitely fell into the "lower orders" that people would have been happy to disarm.

Don