DEMOCRACY UNDER FIRE

‘Southernization’ Is Killing U.S. Politics

The vices of my region are spreading. Its virtues aren’t

Southern Heritage Confederate Flag Rally demonstrators, 2015. Photo: Elvert Barnes CC BY-SA 2.0

Each time I vote in Alabama, I see two kinds of tables I never saw at polling places in my native New Jersey.

At the first, someone checks my required photo ID.