Posted on 06/20/2014 8:53:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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He missed one of the biggest ones of all — that Southern Republicans and conservatives are responsible for the KKK and repression of black voting rights. The Dems have spewed this propaganda so effectively that Goebbels would be proud.
I’ve found the north to be far more racist than my home state of North Carolina.
These are good points, but they really don’t need to be made. If you’re from the South you already know this.
If you aren’t from the South, you should still know this to be true. And if you don’t - then wallow in your ignorance someplace else.
Well, 6-10 are still mostly true! (born in Florida, lived in NC and now Alabama).
1A - Being the Bible Belt is a Bad Thing.
I have actually found that the gentility, respect, concern and politeness instilled in people by Christianity make being in the South a very enjoyable experience.
In the South, they don't care how close you are as long as you don't get too big. In the North, they don't care how big you are as long as you don't get too close.
I've heard far worse racist crap hurled about up here than I ever did when I lived in the south.
’ Southerners Are All Racists.’
I worked for a few months for Chrysler building engines when I was 18 and we stood across the line from each other. Not a day passed that I did not learn something about race relations.
I had to ask what a spic was one day. Each day I watched and listened as a Polock, as the Chink called him, traded racial insults back and forth. Went on the entire shift and I think the Chink would usually win when he launched into some Chinese dialect that described the close relationship that the Polock’s mother had with the family dog, least I think that is what he was saying.
Northern folks are the most racist people on earth, for my money.
I grew up in Panama City Fl. I could tell which state and which part of the state (AL, MS, TN, GA, SC) visitors came from based on their accent. But that was years ago. Much more difficult now.
I’ve found the north to be far more racist than my home state of North Carolina.
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Being born in the north and having spent my entire youth in a mostly northeastern culture, I was fortunate to move to the South after my spouse got out of the Navy.
What you have stated is ABSOLUTELY true!!!!!!
Number 4 is true. It’s called the High Wall. If you are not part of the good ole boys network, you will not find a job regardless of how qualified you are.
Both my wife and I dealt with that when we moved to Texas. Now the head hunters and companies that blew me off 6 years ago now send us Christmas gifts and call me once a week about a job.
I smile at them, thank them and say bless your heart.
Southerners are generally friendlier than yankees in my experience. My paternal grandfather’s middle name was Dixie and he was born in Tennessee, 1899. Sadly, he died before I was born.
MS Ping
This isn’t about Mississippi exactly or Thad or the Ole Miss Rebels in the College World Series. :-)
I'm getting mine soon.;-)
This guy isn’t the best defender of the South, with his underlying hint of inferiority he sounds like a young guy that is largely conditioned by modern media, and much of what he says implies that the South has overcome something that all used to be true, growth which can be attributed to modern media and TV, in other words, Yankee influence.
Why write like this? “Lots of men, women, and children throughout the South hunt and fish every chance they get, but today’s hunters and fishers tend to do so responsibly, rather than wantonly killing animals for the thrill of it.”
I’m a Yankee born and bred, and proud of it. But I have to say that the Southerners I’ve dealt with in my life have generally been decent, honorable people I’m equally proud to call my fellow Americans.
And to the degree the South stubbornly holds to the traditions of family, community, individuality, and liberty that echo our Founders, I find myself much more aligned with its values than the post-modern humanist North.
Or how racists in the South supposedly forsook the Democratic party after it radicalized in 1972 and transferred their bigotry to the Republican side.
Only in the fevered imagination of Morris Deas & Cynthia McKinney.
The “Solid South” was racist for as long as the region was absolutely dominated by Democrats. FDR himself never laid a glove on it (he let Eleanor do that), and kept their undisturbed support until his death.
The Republican party in the South is far more inclusive than the Dems ever were.
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve lived in Michigan all my life and love many things about my state. That said I love the south and am planning to retire there. We are vacationing in southern states to get a feel for different areas.
I’ve never really bought into any of the ten stereotypes listed (although I’ve certainly heard them all), except I admit my perception of Florida is a bit different than say GA or AL. Anyhow I have maybe ten years until retirement and welcome any suggestions for conservative southern areas to visit. Sorry for hijacking the thread a bit. MP
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