Trailer trash: Neal Boortz defends South against massive media slur

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, January 13, 2003 | Neal Boortz

[warchild9]

During the Round One of the War Between the States, Northerners sympathetic with the Southern Cause wore copper pennies attached to their lapels. Hence, the term "copperhead," which originated in Illinois newspapers, if I'm not mistaken. It's not a perjorative; quite the contrary.

[jaugust]

And it isn't just the South which Nor' easterners look down on either. It's the WHOLE "flyover country" they look down on. Essentially, we're all "hayseeds" to them if we don't live in NY. And I'm proud to be a "Midwestern hayseed"!

[Gabz]

I gathered it wasn't a perjorative, just from how you referred to the term.

I know I'll never be considered a southerner, except by some northern friends who think I betrayed my roots leaving NYC, but I sure like the fact that I don't think I've ever been considered a damn yankee!!!

[Gabz]

I gathered it wasn't a perjorative, just from how you referred to the term.

I know I'll never be considered a southerner, except by some northern friends who think I betrayed my roots leaving NYC, but I sure like the fact that I don't think I've ever been considered a damn yankee!!!

[Hillary's Folly]

And if I told you that our symphony orchestra had at least two fiddles and no banjos, you probably wouldn't believe me.

Bawhahaha, I love Boortz, but he too contributes to stereotyping by constantly blasting neighboring Alabama as Alabamastan.

[surely_you_jest]

I don't want to shock you, but some places up north, the neighbors get upset if you pee off your front porch! Can you believe that???

That's because it freezes, and then stays there for months, creating a slip-and-fall hazard. Come the spring thaw, when everything is already waterlogged and muddy, it just sort of festers on top of the ground for days, getting all fetid and smelly. We can't really blame folks for this seemingly unreasoning prejudice of theirs regarding porch front elimination; they are just adapting their behavior to the nasty climate in which they live.

American by birth; Southern by the Grace of God.

[prairiebreeze]

And if I told you that our symphony orchestra had at least two fiddles and no banjos, you probably wouldn't believe me.

A band without banjos is.....lacking.

Prairie :^)

[yarddog]

I grew up being taught that everyone in the North was basically scum. My Sister married a yankee farm boy from Illinois and my parents were really disappointed although they later became very fond of him.

I recall the first time I visited Southern Illinois being surprised that the folks were pretty much like the ones I grew up around.

Then for my senior trip we went to the New York Worlds Fair. I then decided that most people up North really were scum. I have since realized that there are plenty of decent people in the North but they mostly live in rural areas.

To be fair there really are a lot of trashy people in the South and they just about all vote Democrat.

All in all tho, the best people I have ever been around have been Southerners. I even gained respect for some of the poorer classes when my car caught on fire in Douglass, Georgia. A bunch of poor working class people stopped and helped me. One couple driving a ragged mustang even followed me for nearly 50 miles to make sure I made it to my destination.

[yarddog]

I grew up being taught that everyone in the North was basically scum. My Sister married a yankee farm boy from Illinois and my parents were really disappointed although they later became very fond of him.

I recall the first time I visited Southern Illinois being surprised that the folks were pretty much like the ones I grew up around.

Then for my senior trip we went to the New York Worlds Fair. I then decided that most people up North really were scum. I have since realized that there are plenty of decent people in the North but they mostly live in rural areas.

To be fair there really are a lot of trashy people in the South and they just about all vote Democrat.

All in all tho, the best people I have ever been around have been Southerners. I even gained respect for some of the poorer classes when my car caught on fire in Douglass, Georgia. A bunch of poor working class people stopped and helped me. One couple driving a ragged mustang even followed me for nearly 50 miles to make sure I made it to my destination.

[ovrtaxt]

You know his disclaimer-- don't believe anything he says unless you know it to be true, or you can confirm it. HE WILL LIE TO YOU!!

Gotta love Neil, and Royal too.

[Non-Sequitur]

It's not a perjorative; quite the contrary.

Neither is carpetbagger.

[ctonious]

Having grown up and gone to school all over the Eastern seaboard from DC to Boston, moving to California for 10 years, and then returning East to North Carolina - I thoroughly enjoyed fitting into the category of "Failed to Respond - Did Not Understand the Question"...when asked "Are you a Yankee...or what?"

But out in California, if you asked people the question "So the East, whaddya think...North or South?", they just might answer with "Well, Beijing certainly is a power center for this century, but look to Indonesia and the subcontinent to rise as they...."

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAA!!!

[warchild9]

Every Yankee who comes to the South with the intention of taking a Southern job is a carpetbagger. One should note that copperheads generally stayed at home.

[stainlessbanner]

bump

[Non-Sequitur]

Every Yankee who comes to the South with the intention of taking a Southern job is a carpetbagger.

Every Yankee who goes south with the intention of staying is an idiot. IMHO, of course.

[banjo joe]

Vivaldi wrote a banjo concerto. Really.

Some say he wrote 400 concerto's. Others say he wrote the same concerto 400 times.

[Blue Scourge]

Born in Charleston SC (one of the most beautiful cities in our great nation btw) , moved to Morehead City NC, currently reside in Waynesboro VA....If I keep following this trend I'm in trouble....

[warchild9]

You're a little more of a hard-liner than I am, Mr. Non. I've actually met Yankees who'd be an asset to our Southern country.

[warchild9]

be an asset = be assets.

I know about syntax agreements.