What is it about the far right and its longstanding infatuation with the Deep South? Hardly a day goes by in which some right-wing think tanker isn’t lambasting North Carolina for somehow failing to “keep up” with the tax-slashing or anti-environmental policies of one of its southern neighbors.

Pardon me, but have any of these guys ever been to Alabama? Or Mississippi? Or Louisiana? Frankly, it’s hard to believe that they would really think of those states as models of progress if they ever had.

Now, today, the Pope-Civitas Institute is lauding Alabama’s anti-immigrant hate law (the one that led to the detention of  Mercedes-Benz exec) and attempting to argue (albeit unsuccessfully) that it is somehow responsible for a miracle turnaround in state employment statistics in the Heart of Dixie. Read More…