4:58pm June 26, 2013

“I see Wendy Davis on the floor defiantly holding her ground and I salute her not just because she is protecting her constituents, because she is doing a brave and great thing, but because she is doing so in a state that many progressives outside the South say is backwards, without hope, without redemption, filled with conservative, narrow-minded, horrible people. Because she is living evidence that stereotypes about the South need serious reevaluation, have needed it for a very long time, and that instead of riding its high horse, perhaps regions outside the South should consider working in solidarity, should join forces with those in the South who are fighting so hard for their rights.”

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