Posted on 09/24/2013 8:03:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Where is the (mega) barf alert?
Orval Faubus, George Wallace, Lestor Maddox, William Fulbright, the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Byrd, Bull Connor, - yep, all them Republican racists.
I can’t tell you what this scored on my BS meter, because it tore the needle off.
The University of Rochester in New York Nuff said.
Well when you consider that the “black belt” is named after the color of soil not the color of anyone’s skin, you have to dismiss this “analysis” pretty quickly.
It isn’t ‘comments’ which come tyo mind when I read filth propaganda seeking to gin up racial tensions using false premises ...
And there is no racism outside the South? Who knew?
People are more racist up north then down here. I argue this point constantly with Northern pinheads.
Lester Maddox actually was a good governor of Georgia and he lived long enough to hear a few of his opponents admit it.
Just how many people do these author believe were slave holders in 1860? Does the percentage of people who were slave owners correspond somehow with the percentage of people who are, “gasp”, against Affirmative Action and vote Republican and have a negative attitude towards African Americans? I mean if the two are directly related one would expect there to be some kind of direct linear connection. You know, like tracing somebody’s current political philosophy on the fact back in the day their family were slave holders.
How many people interviewed were transplants? I can guarantee you that people don’t move to the South just in hopes they will get to carry on the Plantation life. Nor to relive the glory days of Reconstruction where crimes against recently freed slaves was a Democratic past time. In fact Southern Democrats have been very closely connected with such crimes. How did the authors miss that?
This poor attitude was towards which African Americans? You see we don’t think they all look alike nor do we lump them together. If you ask a person that lives in an area where most of the violent crime is committed by certain classes of Blacks you will get a negative attitude because the reality is that someone has probably had a negative experience with such persons. Get down to specifics and you will find the attitude is not applied to all Blacks.
The biggest BS of them all is that it is very obvious (nope I have not read the original source material, but I know.) the authors decided in advance what the conclusion must be and made sure to frame their questions in order to solicit the answers that would meet that conclusion. This is what Liberal academics do. It is also BS because it totally ignores the racial tensions and outright racism in those areas of the country (Boston, cough, cough) that do not have a legacy of slavery. Not only that, these are so-called enlightened areas which vote Democrat and just love their little Brown brothers. That is not how I think of Blacks but I notice there is always a tone of “White man’s burden” in how Libs speak about Black people.
Lastly the authors failed to learn something very important before speaking to Southerners. We can shine on a stupid, condescending, peckerheaded, fool of a damn liberal Yankee and not break a sweat. We know what they think of us. We know they hold us in contempt. We bless their hearts all the way up one side of the road and then bless it all the way down the other side. All the time wondering how God must surely love fools cause He made so many of them. By the way they do make tasty breakfast treats.
Bullcrizzap!
I always assumed that much of the southern conservatism was based upon “the Bible Belt”..and having grown up in Durham, N.C. I think I am more correct than these liberal bozos.
I have fond feelings toward blacks, and am as Conservative as they come!~
In the North there is/was greater segregation on a physical basis tot eh point where many on both sides had no daily interaction with each other. Quite different situations leading to quite different understandings.
The Southern slave owners back then were Democrats. The CW only ‘freed’ the slaves in the South, while allowing people in the North to continue to have slaves. The Union also destroyed land ownership records and permitted their carpetbaggers to claim lands in the South.
The slavery issue was just used as an excuse to start the war. The real issue was economics, as the North was just making products that they couldn’t export (because they were being made in Europe as well), but the South had secured lucrative contracts for exporting cotton and tobacco to other countries. The North saw it was going to lose economically big time, so had to find a reason to foment a war, where they had the manufacturing advantage for armamant. ............JMO
During slavery many slaves learned the trades and once freed were free to practice these trades. In the north all trades were unionized, highly paid and practiced racism with a vengeance.
Much of the negative portrayal of southerners is the product of “sophisticated” northerners trying to assuage their guilt of a much more damaging form of racism.
I say this as a person who lived his first sixty years in the north and nearly forty years in the tristate region.
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