What Happened to the New South? Confederate Month???

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

No, not everyone was like that, but when the list of truly decent people I knew from there is less than ten, that's saying something.

There is truth to every stereotype.  Apparently Southerners aren't too worried about dispelling theirs.

We yankees have completely taken over the Raleigh NC area.  Around here you're more likely to hear a Boston accent then a southern accent.

[Tallpine]

the list of truly decent people I knew from there is less than ten

You're doing pretty good, then.

I'm not sure that I've found that many in the whole world yet 

[S. Williamson]

That's because you live in the middle of nowhere. 

[French G.]

Had "slaves" been "technologically advanced machinery of which the North was envious", the viewpoint here would be quite different.  As it is, Lincoln created precedents in the Presidency that many of us, despite being fair-minded in terms of racial opportunity, find to be repulsive.

QFT

I am Virginian, always have been. My grandfather left VA for work in DC, the only generation that I am aware of that stayed out of state. Thankfully, I am back home. My family line supplied the woman who R.E. Lee would know as his mother. So, some of us take the pot stirring a little hard. "Treason" is a judgment of the victors, such as they are. I've never owned a slave, never harbored any racism. There was a time when the choice "Bobby" Lee made, between state and country, actually meant something. I'm glad he did the right thing. I'm very glad slavery ended where it did, damn shame federalism ended there too.

[S. Williamson]

I hold nothing against the South for its history of confederacy, or for fighting for what they believed in; my fault lies with bigotry, including there, South Africa, Japan, wherever.  I simply experienced more of it during my years in Georgia than I have anywhere else.

tl;dr: I hate bigots. 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

thats funny. i am visibly "not from around here" have lived both north and south and found more bigotry in the north.  its sometimes dressed up politely but not hidden.  i much prefer someone who is honest enough to say "we don't like your kind" than the haoles who say "some of my best friends are blank. and my spidey sense tingles stronger the more the folks try to trumpet their "inclusiveness" . i worked for one of the mainstream churches and nothin cemented that opinion more.  in my life the most racist place i ever lived was boston, followed by dc.

[Perd Hapley]

Well, I live in a border state, and none of my best friends are Asian.  So what does that make me?   


Oh, wait.  One of my best friends in the service was half-Filipino.  Does that count? 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

would you let him date your sister?

[Perd Hapley]

That particular half-Filipino?  No.     This is the kind of schmuck that, when he sees his fiancee for the first time in months, takes her to Hooters for lunch.

[sanglant]

Well, I live in a border state, and none of my best friends are Asian.  So what does that make me?   


Oh, wait.  One of my best friends in the service was half-Filipino.  Does that count? 

"you and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"?  sorry, but it just had to be done.

[Perd Hapley]

 

[sanglant]

  guess the meds are in high gear, sorry.

[Jamisjockey]

Likely the combination of cornbread and buttermilk.

If it was the Southern diet making the politicians act this stupid this moronic proposal would have been done long ago.

What is causing this stupidity?  Confederate History Month?  Oh, boy, I'll be they can hardly wait for the slavery unit.  Geez.

I should have read the entire thread before even resopnding at all.  You, sir, are a bigot, and don't even realize it.  This thread is done.