working on drafting my data/stats/results/etc portion of my paper and i'll take "sentences i was not expecting to have to write when i designed this project" for 400
noah lee
@noahleewrites.bsky.social
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he/him. polcomm undergrad. weird disabled queer from alabama. the cat’s name is melissa. trying my best to be hopeful in hopeless times
![A quote from the previously mentioned book that reads: “As the Democrats worked out the political future of Alabama, they were self-consciously aware that they were engaged in a deadly serious enterprise, a project that would define and delimit politics for generations to come. They went about their work with the solemn realization that they were fashioning, not only a constitution that the state would live with for decades, but a whole way of doing politics. They were sanctifying the *politics of emotion* in Alabama, a politics based on the emotional appeals of race and Reconstruction to make sufficient numbers of the White majority forget their economic differences, It was a politics that salved wounded economic pride, sedated class tensions, and soothed the psyches of ordinary folks, who wanted, somehow, to feel superior to other people.” [pg. 44] The final two sentences are highlighted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysze7ihpzmgl6rmbrwxhmtbm/bafkreihdndtiefrnpslw466wje7lssoxv44lccpgigzcwft2f4doviajve)
