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Progressive Colonialism, Southern Discomfort
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 19, 2019 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 05/20/2019 8:49:27 AM PDT by C19fan

I’m so sorry. Really, just very sorry. Here entitled Yankees like the NYT’s Ginia Bellafante thought the American South existed to give Millennial Brooklynites a place to reproduce Park Slope, but more affordably, and now we’ve gone and ruined it for them with our deplorable social and religious views. Bellafante writes about how pro-life legislators are screwing things up for these expats:

“The New South’’ was a term conceived in the aftermath of the Civil War to suggest a set of aspirations of some southern elites who hoped to rebuild a backward and devastated place into a world better aligned with Northern urban values.

Over the many decades, it has acquired various layers of nuance, but today it tends to call to mind a string of cities from Charlotte, N.C., to Austin, Tex., that have essentially been Brooklynized by way of a progressive social culture and a tweaked fidelity to some of the South’s more marketable traditions.

(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: carpetbaggers; culture; damnyankees; left; south; yankees
Whole new meaning to Carpetbaggers.
1 posted on 05/20/2019 8:49:27 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Yes ,please go away and stay. We do not want to be Vermont on a regional scale.


2 posted on 05/20/2019 8:53:57 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: robowombat

The South as a culture is doomed. From the Latin Americans moving in, to white Yankees, and African-Americans moving back “home”, they will colonize and transform as what they did to Northern Virginia over the past 2 generations.


3 posted on 05/20/2019 8:56:45 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
You are right about NOVA. In the dozen years since I left Fairfax County has been Latinoized to a remarkable extent. Same in MD. Towns like Gaithersburg that were whitebread suburbs are now a Latin stew with lots of MS-13 activity.
4 posted on 05/20/2019 9:00:54 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: C19fan
The exquisite take-away quote:

"I have an idea! All y’all could pack up your progressive colonialism ethic and go the hell back home."

To which I would only add: "Bless your heart." :o)

5 posted on 05/20/2019 9:02:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I actually don't care how you did things up North.)
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To: C19fan
The exquisite take-away quote:

"I have an idea! All y’all could pack up your progressive colonialism ethic and go the hell back home."

To which I would only add: "Bless your heart." :o)

6 posted on 05/20/2019 9:02:56 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I actually don't care how you did things up North.)
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To: robowombat

The movie “Remember The Titans” is a pure period piece. The ALexandria, VA it depicted is no more.


7 posted on 05/20/2019 9:05:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Blame Lincoln. He is not the hero that history props up.


8 posted on 05/20/2019 9:21:32 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: C19fan

Why does the link at the top say “UK Daily Mail” yet take you to a blog? Did you do that deliberately?


9 posted on 05/20/2019 9:22:35 AM PDT by Chuckster (Probably not...)
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To: Chuckster

Mistake on my part.


10 posted on 05/20/2019 9:25:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I still think Alabama and Mississippi are too repulsive a place for northeastern/CA transplants. It is why we chose to move here. Of course, my neighbor just moved in from Hollywood, CA so maybe I’m totally wrong. He spends most of his time telling me how racist he finds the folks. Since most in my neighborhood are transplants, I guess he’s insulting himself.


11 posted on 05/20/2019 9:32:20 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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All those jobs Rick Perry boasted about taking from California came with voters attached. Just remember that when Texas turns blue in the next few years.

I was just up north in Virginia. this weekend. That whole DC suburban area (MD included) really is swamped with Hispanics and 1st Gen Africans


12 posted on 05/20/2019 9:41:19 AM PDT by Hatteras
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Yes, they change their location, they don’t change their attitudes. That must be the definition of stupidity.


13 posted on 05/20/2019 9:58:37 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: C19fan

I beg to differ. I have seen Northern families move down here only to have their children grow up to drive pickup trucks with Confederate Battle flags in the back. Being “Southern” is a learned Culture. We will be just fine!


14 posted on 05/20/2019 10:12:12 AM PDT by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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To: C19fan

Stand your ground fellow Southerners... Been living in Yankee territory for over 30 years now, and I can tell you, you don’t want what they are selling...

Not to mention Yankees don’t have a clue how to Fry Chicken or make BBQ.


15 posted on 05/20/2019 10:15:23 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Chuckster

Indeed beware of unknown blogs.

A case in point, I visited the News Thud, or whatever it’s called, from an article link on FR and a day later found myself subscribed to it and its sister operation, receiving spam ‘news’. I have unsubscribed, but if they honor the unsubscribe request, it will be a surprise.


16 posted on 05/20/2019 10:20:36 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: C19fan

They have already ruined Virginia.


17 posted on 05/20/2019 10:47:40 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan
As the old bumper sticker in Florida in the 1979s-80s said: If you ❤️ NY, take I-95 North (No not all of you. Those who are not obnoxious a-holes who insist we do everything exactly like they do back in NY are more than welcome to stay and join us - as for Leftist Yankee imperialists - just stay home. If you’ve come here don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out)
18 posted on 05/20/2019 10:55:08 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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