It's been 150 years since the motions were put in place to end the Civil War. And one day, as Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson puts it, the end may one day actually occur.

In his April 8 column "Today's GOP is the party of Jefferson Davis, not of Lincoln," Harold Meyerson said the modern Republican party, and the South's reliance on cheap labor, have turned the party from that of the Great Emancipator Lincoln to a Confederate throwback.

"Even today, one of America's most fundamental problems is that the alliance between the current form of Southern labor and the current form of New York finance is with us still," Meyerson wrote. "The five states that have no minimum wage laws of their own are in the South: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Southern-based corporations such as Wal-Mart are among the leading opponents of workers' right to organize, and as Wal-Mart has expanded into the North and West, so have the "right-to-work" statutes of Southern states been enacted by Republican governments in the Midwest."

Meyerson goes on to blast what he calls the "Southernization" of the Republican Party.

He wrote:

"Fueled by the mega-donations of the mega-rich, today's Republican Party is not just far from being the party of Lincoln: It's really the party of Jefferson Davis. It suppresses black voting; it opposes federal efforts to mitigate poverty; it objects to federal investment in infrastructure and education just as the antebellum South opposed internal improvements and rejected public education; it scorns compromise. It is nearly all white. It is the lineal descendant of Lee's army, and the descendants of Grant's have yet to subdue it."

Those are pretty powerful words. Your thoughts?