Anyone who wonders what "modern" racism looks like only needs to spend a day in the panhandle of Texas. Their racism is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the past. I'd be willing to bet most of them are conservatives, too, but I don't know if the two are related.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
