It appears that the Nov. 2 election was even more divided by color than we realized...

So color-driven, in fact, that Jim Crow got a major woody. Believe it or not, Alabama citizens voted to keep racism in their state Constitution. The Alabama Legislature put up Amendment 2 this fall, an effort to remove the three most glaring remnants of racism in their state Constitution, and the voters voted it down. Aparently, the majority of Alabama voters believe that schools must be segregated, a poll tax must be paid, and Alabama children do not have the right to an education at taxpayer expense, because they voted to keep these items as a part of their state Constitution.

Of course, federal law trumps their pointlessly racist state laws, but this was a symbolic move that I think makes a very profound statement about the status of civilization (or utter lack thereof) in Alabama. I won't even go in to the fact that the opposition to Amendment 2 was led by the Christian Coalition, because you all know exactly what I would have to say about those buggers.