White south = mini-Russia

There was a huge response to today's piece about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the preface to my interview with Angie Maxwell, a political scientist studying the politics of the south, I said King would have understood that "the line connecting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump runs through Dixie." That seems to have struck a chord.

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