Posted on 06/20/2014 8:53:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In NYC, they move money around and publish books. Pretty good food as I remember.
In the ignorant South we:
Put men on the moon
Shoot probes beyond the limits of our solar system.
Drill for oil in one mile of seawater and we can send down our robots to repair breaks in the drill string.
We have food to die for.
The former is AAU ball, the latter is the pro league.
Five big NASA centers are in the South. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Michoud in Loisiana, Marshall and Stennis in Mississippi, and Johnson Spaceflight Center in Texas. Not bad for a bunch of redneck states, eh?
My huge error. Marshall SFC is in Alabama. How stupid of me.
When I played golf I used to joke that other golfers should pay my greens fees. That way when someone muffed a shot badly he could point to me and say, “Well, at least I don’t suck like him!”
The stereotype of the South (no shoes, inbreeding, lynch mobs, etc.) exists for much the same reason. Despite being the home of Mitchell, Faulkner, Welty and MANY other notable authors, despite the racially motivated violence in L.A., Detroit, Watts, Howard Beach, Crown Heights, the busing riots in Boston and all the blood on the collective hands of the rest of this country, some people have to have someone else they can feel superior to. The South is homophobic, but where was Matthew Shepard pistol-whipped to death? The South is anti-Semitic, but where was Yankel Rosenbaum stabbed to death? The South is a cultural desert, but the International Ballet Competition is being held in Jackson, Ms. this week.
I could go on, but why bother? We in the South have long realized the rest of our countrymen have been indoctrinated to this pap, and nothing will change their low-information mentality. Yes, we’re evil, we shoot Bambi, we eat mudbugs, we all drive pick-up trucks, we juggle cats, whatever. You should stay away from us and move somewhere you’ll be happier. Try Detroit, I hear it’s a buyer’s market for retirees right now...
P.S. And despite Cleveland’s overblown fatuous claim, the South is the REAL home of rock ‘n roll!
You're right there.The first time I tried grits was at Ft Knox in '69.I didn't make *that* mistake again.I thought I was gonna die!
All you need to to do to find the South in Florida is get away From I75 & I95 south of I4. There is is still plenty of old Florida outside of those areas.
I agree. There seems to be an underlying attitude of "Don't hate us...we are more liberal and enlightened now!"
In an interview, the English actor Andrew Lincoln, who plays a deep Southerner in "The Walking Dead", said that he was surprised at not really having to work at a Southern accent. He said he slipped easily into it & it seems very close to his own dialect.
I've noted that British actors almost always do a much better job with Southern accents than American actors.
I bet if Texas and Oklahoma shut off all gas and oil lines at their borders, the technology people would be begging for more energy.
I am not real fond of grits either. I think it is an acquired taste.
“The South is a cultural desert”
Houston has five Opera companies. A great city for lovers of opera.
I find very few Southerners who are obsessed with the Civil War. They are small in number, but still very noisy. Most Southerners are very happy that things went as they did.
All's well that ends well.
Not quite. The answer to a question often heard here in Miami: “What is the longest bridge in the world?”
Is: “The bridge (causeway) between Miami Beach and Pequena Habana... because it connects Tel Aviv and Havana.”
(We live in Little Havana, and we are neighbors with many who fled the communist regimes in places like Nicaragua. We have quite a few Cuban neighbors (mostly older and not particularly well off) who voted for Obamacare because they got sucked in... they now seem to be regretting their vote.)
The counter-examples of the fried food “myth” are truly the exception that proves the rule. How many restaurants do Natalie Dupree and Alton Brown run? What are the prices there? High and higher, like the handful of “cutting edge restaurants” which are supposed to balance out hundreds (or thousands, if I can similarly draw from four or five states) family places where every appetizer and every entree is deep-fried.
Most true Southerners can spot a “Four Flusher”, like the pResident, in a New York Minute”!
I have lived the majority of my life in the South. I am having a hard time thinking of any restaurants that have all fried appetizers and entrees. Even the meat and 3 restaurants offer grilled and baked items. But maybe all of the places we have lived have cheap mom and pop restaurant exceptions.
It's a lot like the Chainsaw Massacre Effect, the not-so-subtle underlying message broadcast by so many Hollywood B movies, i.e., 'stay on the Interstate,' or Leatherface will get you!
There are many of us who benefit from that propaganda, who prefer the STD's and crowds clustered around the federal highways remain mostly in that vicinity.
I’ve had folks from “up North” mention my accent, I tell them when I’m in New York, I have an accent, when you’re in Mississippi, you have an accent.
Ditto. When visiting Red Hampshire relatives (in-laws, of course) while living in Tennessee some few years back, politics came up. I was supporting Alan Keyes at the time, and asked if anyone else was considering the same. My wife's father said two words in response: "Wrong color."
NEVER heard that in Tennessee, or anywhere else, for that matter.
I grew up in East Texas (think Old South) during segregation. There were some rednecks who hated blacks with a passion, but most middle and upper class whites had friendly relationships with blacks. There was always the socially mandated distinction of not dining together or social separation by race, but many had close personal friendships that transcended that to the point of being almost family. (This may have dated from slavery and the paternalistic relationships of owner and servant.) Nevertheless, there was no widespread animosity in my part of the country.
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