ToTL, I have heard your special message to me many times. It hasn't improved much over the years, and of course, I take it with a grain of salt. What I wrote is that most actual book banning is done by school boards in red states, like Texas. That isn't closed mindedness, that is simply paying attention to facts. If you have some links to "book burning" by Democrats, I would certainly take a look at them, but I haven't heard of any so far. The Democratic Party has always stood up for social end economic rights for persons of all faiths and colors, ever since the Southern Dixiecrats abandoned the Dems and switched to Republicans, who shifted toward racial discrimination after Strom Thurmond lost the presidential nomination. That was quite a while ago, about sixty years. Now Republicans stand for Big Business and Jim Crow.