George,

Would that William Faulkner was still around to describe Zell Miller's deeply Snopesian display of raw meanness and opportunism. As an Alabamian, I was shocked and shamed by Miller's display of vituperative evil and embarrassed that Karl Rove had gone South for the most depraved hit man he could find.

The Nixon - Atwater Southern Strategy erased the warmth in the soul of the South and exacerbated all of the darkness within that Southerners of good heart have been trying to get rid of for 300 years. Southern Republicans are the most smugly self-satisfied proponents of ignorance and greed in the entire GOP.

Back to the Tyler Sewell phenomenon. Twinkie Tyler obviously equates being a Francophobe with being a tough guy. I wonder if he has ever been to France? Hell, I doesn't sound to me like the lad has even been to Memphis on a fast train.

- Hamlin A. Caldwell Jr. (electronic mail, September 4, 2004)