Of course it always gets worse, South Carolina’s DNC Chief claims GOP Gov. Nikki Haley has brought back “Jim Crow.”
Melissa Harris-Perry, an MSNBC contributor soon to host her own show, said that Republican presidential candidates in South Carolina are subtly appealing to a “segregationist past” that predates the Civil War. South Carolina’s Democratic Party Chair took the more restrained position that Gov. Nikki Haley, R, and the Tea Party merely want to return to the “Jim Crow” policies from the period after slavery ended. […]
Dick Harpootlian, chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, agreed, saying that Tea Partiers in his state were pushing Jim Crow policies. “This is Jim Crow — we’re going backwards in this state, and not forward, and that’s because of [South Carolina Governor] Nikki Haley and the Tea Party folks that don’t want to try to convince folks of color to vote for their candidates,” he said, in criticism of voter ID laws.