Dean's Southern Strategy: Reaching Out to Hicks, Rednecks, Hillbillies, Crackers & Nascar Fans

November 5, 2003 | Pinochet

[MamaTexan]

R.C. Cola
Royal Crown cola
R. O. C. Co Cola

Now boys...

Doe'in ya'll know it's sodee-waatur? :)

[Corin Stormhands]

You suh, are sullyin' the honuh of a lady.

Ma'am, a Virginia Gentleman would do nothin' of the kind.

[Corin Stormhands]

Doe'in ya'll know it's sodee-waatur? :)

Well, no'm. Actually, 'sall "Coke"...

[Coop]

Dat's right. What kind of Coke you wan'?

[Gopher Broke]

What does a West Virginia girl say during Sex???

Git off me, daddy, yore crushing my cigarettes.....

(sorry, could not resist)

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

I kind of like maintaining the image of southern stereotypes we have here in the South. It acts as a scarecrow for no-it-all folk that hold those assumptions.

Hey, if'n ya throw some 'possum gravy on them grits, I'll take some. :)

[Corin Stormhands]

What did Jesus say to the West Virginians?

"Y'all act stupid 'til I come back..."

(fer the record, West Virginia AIN'T in the South)

[PeyersPatches]

Eny self-respectin' Southron knows its Moonpies and R.C. Cola...

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LOL You are so right!

[TexasCajun]

Keep it up you nasty Rats! ...we love it!

And the Rats shake their heads and wonder why there is a new Republican Governor in Mississippi & Kentucky and in 2 weeks there will be a new Republican Governor in Louisiana.

[TexasCajun]

Dat's right. What kind of Coke you wan'?

Make mine a Root Beer, please.
...and some salted peanuts to put in the bottle.

[arthurus]

Yall wanna talk bout Gene Pool? Mosey on over to Du Quoin, Illinois. Half the folks up there are identical. The school photographer done sold his camera years ago. He jus looks at the list of kids for the annual and pulls out pictures from his file by age and sex and sometimes he has to change a name or two.

[Question_Assumptions]

Well, parts of South Jersey are south of the Mason Dixon Line, y'know.

[MeekOneGOP]

ah need t'translate thet so ah can read it ...

I'll bet thet ev'ry Southern freeper, who watched Ebenezer Dean in yessuhterday's CNN debate, c'd not he'p but shake his haid in amazement. In tryin' t'retch out t'th' South, Dean did not retch out t'Southerners as varmints, but, instead, he retched out t'a stereotype thet menny No'therners haf of th' South. It is not jest a problem wif No'thern Democrats; ah have see th' same attitude in some No'th-East Republicans. Ev'ryone sh'd make a point of readin' Zell Miller's recent book, which he is now promotin'.

All Southerners haf evah wanted, is t'be treated wif respeck. They be hankerin' t' be treated as no'mal varmints, not as caricatures an' freaks. Whut in tarnation Ebenezer Dean sh'd haf done, is t'talk t'Southerners in th' same manner as he'd talk to varmints in his home state of Vermont, o' as he talks t'varmints in Iowa an' Noo Virginny. When he is retchin' out t'varmints in Iowa an' Noo Virginny, he treats them as regular South Car'linans, not as freaks.

Eff'n Dean was smart, he'd haf focused on his past reco'd as a defenner of th' second ammendment right t'own guns while campaignin' in th' South, wifout talkin' about th' Confederate flags an' pickup trucks. He c'd also haf talked about immigrashun, which has resulted in illegal aliens takin' th' jobs of so menny pore Southerners (of all races). He c'd also haftauched on some of th' economic nashunalism issues, thet Pat Buchanan touched on in 1992 an' 1996, about co'po'ashuns shippin' blue collar jobs t'Mexico an' China. An' jest as he has retched out t'farmers in Iowa, he c'd haf promised Southern farmers of mo'e success in sellin' their producks in expo't markets.

Unfo'tunately, No'th Eastern elitists does not see Southerners as no'mal varmints, but as backward, igno'ant cavemen whom they look down on, as enny fool kin plainly see.

[CFC__VRWC]

Newspaper?! You'll end up with a black butt.

Hot damn! Ah always wunner'd how Maw figgered out it were tahme t'git anutter one o' dem Seers cattylawgs without me tellin' her!

[arthurus]

In DQ I saw no morons and I saw no geniuses. Folks are obviously educated to some extent, at least they all go to school for a while. The kids are beautiful but the sameness is creepy and they do not wear out the babyname book. I suspect there is a short list of names at City Hall and most folks choose names for their babies from that list. DQ was a supremely pleasant town to work a fair in. My problem was that income depends on the price of corn and I don't know how to predict that long enough in advance of the fair to get in. If I could predict that I would happily return. If you were at the fair a couple of years ago there was a big green frog with lots of small children around it.