"inherently gloomy about the prospect of Alabama" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really."
Well would you look at that...one little change and all the sudden no one is offended. Isn't getting offended a choice? Isn't anyone else kind of put off by how quickly people are hushed up if they happen to say anything negative about a powerful enough minority?
There are so many things that are more important.