[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

You base that on a 'fake but accurate' film you saw once?

The genteel civility of the antebellum south is a historical fact. And the movie "Gone With the Wind" is a good representation of that fact.

I also experienced their mannerly ways first hand when I moved to Alabama from California in the 60s and married into a genteel middle class southern family.

Much more civilized than anything I had experienced growing up in southern california.

[Dinsdale]

I've traveled the world, the south isn't any politer then average, and I'm white.

Granted S. Cal is a bad area.