[Gaston]

According to such supposedly biased and unsophisticated views, Asians and Arabs were considered tribal, emotional, less-sophisticated peoples, prone to violence, fundamentalism, and irrational thinking, simply because they did not understand, or chose not to follow, Europe's rather brutal notions of capitalism, nationalism, rationalism, and Christianity.

You only have to change a couple of words in this statement and it would apply to how Americans today feel about people in southern states.

[TopQuark]

V. Hanson bump.

[okie01]

"...it would apply to how Americans today feel about people in southern states."

That would be "how [some Eastern liberal elitist] Americans", wouldn't it?

[nopardons]

Oh for crying out loud ! Stop playing the " victim " and writing such silliness. The more that you and the rest of FR's Southern Whiners say this codswallop, the more I and others, who NEVER thought anything bad about Souterners , are going to think , because of YOU , that there IS something very wrong with Southerners !