Michael Lind on the Tea Party Caucus in Congress and the former Confederate states

Michael Lind on http://www.salon.com/ had this analysis of the Tea Party caucus in Congress.

http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parties/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/02/lind_tea_party

Lind is paying attention to the geography of politics.

See this blog on Michell Backmann and her neo-Confederacy.

http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2011/08/michelle-bachmanns-neo-confederacy.html

I think the public is becoming aware of the mainstreaming of neo-Confederacy into the American conservative movement.