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Holly Croft
@hollycroft.bsky.social
Archivist. Recovering(?) political hack. Person to four cats and a collie. Opinions my own and often contradictory to my employer’s. She/her.
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I presented yesterday at a Flannery O’Connor symposium about the KKK mention in Wildcat. When looking into it, I was surprised about how much Klan activity was happening in Georgia in 1948 (it’s more than you probably assume), but more troublingly, so much of it felt like it could be current events.
Beyond the obvious Civil War context of Vance's comments about hillbillies and "old-school Southern folks," it's eerie how much his version of US history sounds like that of a segregationist Democrat. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | A resurfaced Vance interview reveals the truth about MAGA populism
A party cannot simultaneously stand for working Americans and shelter racial prejudice.
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Holly Croft
@hollycroft.bsky.social
Archivist. Recovering(?) political hack. Person to four cats and a collie. Opinions my own and often contradictory to my employer’s. She/her.
690 followers1.8k following78 posts