How Stale Are Southern Old White Male Politicians?

Sen Jeff Sessions from Alabama, if you recall was blocked from the federal bench himself two decades ago for making insensitive remarks about the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP, is now representing the Republicans in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.

Only in the South can a man, denied a job because he was racist, become a Senator, and now get to ask Sonia Sotomayor if she has "prejudices" and not feel the least bit swarmy and sanctimonious. How far removed is Sessions from his southern ancestors that were willing to have a civil war instead of evolving with the tenants of our Constitution and the realities of society?

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin argued on air:

"What's worth noting about what Jeff Sessions -- the line of questioning, was that being a white man, that's normal. Everybody else has biases and prejudices ... but the white man, they don't have any ethnicity, they don't have any gender, they're just like the normal folks, and I thought that was a little jarring."

Source: HuffPo