Justin Jones: “As goes the south, so goes the nation.”

“I was talking to a brother yesterday in Louisiana on the phone with some folks from Alabama. But I want to see how can we build this coalition across the south to really resist in this time. Because As goes the south, so goes the nation. That's what W.E.B. du Bois told us, and it's so true today, the south is the tip of the spear.” (14:42–14:45)

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