Republicans just don't get it. Because an inexperienced Puerto Rican male voted as a conservative judge, the southern senator expected Soto to follow her cultural patriarch. A kowtowing Justice Clarence Thomas she is not. [ By the way, has anyone read his briefs lately...}But her strength of character is reminiscence of Anita Hill.

Its the same southern aristocratic philosophy, that a Raygun Ron Reagan would use to instill fear in voters that a black president would create a nation catering to black needs and concerns. Its the same historical prejudice that believes all blacks know each other and given the opportunity will collaborate to rob and dismember white victims. One PR newscaster noted how stereotypical beliefs reminds him of when people thought anyone of Hispanic origin ate tacos and took afternoon siestas (you could see the hurt in his eyes as he reflected.)

Maybe Southern senators expect all Puerto Ricans to forgivingly embrace the conservative hypocrites who deny the colony statehood rights. Like U.S. Virgin Islands, the colonies of different races have no  political representation in the marble white halls of the 90 member senate.

Race was a topical accusation brought up so many times, I forgot she was being interviewed to be a judge. I thought I was witnessing a Wisconsin senator accusing innocent citizens of being a communist. Gender was mentioned so much as a threat to the sanctity of white men, I started smelling burning flesh from the Salem Witch Trials. But this time the culprit in the defendants chair is a racist, according to the society of elite white men. Men living for an anti-bellum century obtusely thought inherent prejudices  would help inspire the improper cat calls from anti-Soto audience members. All of these people are afraid of losing their superior status if a commie racist becomes a member of the Supreme Court. After all, capitalist pigs in positions of power never reflect the opinion of their rich constituents.  Still, no matter how they slung their southern grits and pig lips, their comments did not stick to the hallowed chamber wall of reason and logic.

What did stick was how those judicial republicans expressed fear and finally acknowledgment that they are losing power with the racist ideology that begun with Nixon. What they realize that as more people from the rest of the nation repopulate the South; these new immigrants do not necessarily share the same pompous views of anti-bellum Confederate agitators.   

When the director of Gone With the Wind predicted the South would rise again with blacks again as second class citizens; he would be dumbfounded to find out liberals, blacks, and Hispanics and Asians have come out of the ashes of Atlanta's nefarious hellfire.