MSNBC re-fights the Civil War following VW-UAW vote

Speaking of grasping at straws, a predominately white workforce rejects a German owned company's effort to put them under the thumb of the UAW and it all because of racism. Evidently MSNBC feels its viewers, who for two week have been entertained almost exclusively by Olympic hockey and sundry reiterations of how Chris Christie blocked traffic, needed a change of pace. Contributing writer Timothy Noah set the stage for the video when he wrote,

"The opposition, I gather, portrayed this as a kind of Northern invasion, a re-fighting of the Civil War. Apparently there are not a lot of black employees in this particular plant, and so that kind of - waving the Confederate flag - was an effective strategy," said Noah.

I like the way the guest laments the South's history of right to work laws while omitting the fact that Michigan, the home of the UAW, together with Indiana became a right to work state.