11 Quotes by Steve Travers

Football coaches in particular are by large measure Republicans, and this fact more than most anything proves the lie that the party is racist.

After Alabama football integrated in 1969-70, the South made a greater, more profound change for good, in a shorter period of time than any region in all of world history.

The wonderful, lifelong relationships forged by white coaches with black athletes, or by black coaches with white athletes, is nothing less than a social statement.

I witnessed this. In 1981 I played in the St. Louis Cardinal organization in a league encompassing Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. We had numerous African-American and black Dominican players. I can honestly say I never saw a hint of prejudice, and in fact I found Southern belles oddly drawn to the black players more than the white ones.

This general trend, in which the conservative Christians of Middle America continue to go forth and produce excellence, while the liberals go forth and produce pabulum, is an inevitable rising tide that ensures conservatism will inexorably triumph.

Despite characterizations of ignorance and racism by the Democrats and most of the media, economic and social fortunes have risen in Dixie as well.

Now the liberals hate to admit this and won't, but something like what happened in America's Southern states between the late 1960s and late 1970s cannot be explained by an factor other than the miraculous curing powers of a loving God. Many reasons and theories may be expounded but as the old saying goes, "the truth shall set ye free".

California, once the nation's most Republican state, used to produce greatness. Outside of tech innovation, the Golden State is an over-taxed populace whose most successful people are moving to states like Texas.

The liberals of the world would have us believe that Alabama is still racist and backward, but the Najee Harris's of the world are disproving that by voting with their feet.