Eating a good Georgia or South Carolina peach is like eating watermelon.
You really need a bib or else you need to lean over to keep the juice from running down your shirt front!
Posted on 06/17/2013 7:34:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One hundred and fifty years after twin defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg destroyed the South’s quest for independence, the region is again on the rise. People and jobs are flowing there, and Northerners are perplexed by the resurgence of America’s home of the ignorant, the obese, the prejudiced and exploited, the religious and the undereducated. Responding to new census data showing the Lone Star State is now home to eight of America’s 15 fastest-growing cities, Gawker asked: “What is it that makes Texas so attractive? Is it the prisons? The racism? The deadly weather? The deadly animals? The deadly crime? The deadly political leadership? The costumed sex fetish conventions? The cannibal necromancers?”
The North and South have come to resemble a couple who, although married, dream very different dreams. The South, along with the Plains, is focused on growing its economy, getting rich, and catching up with the North’s cultural and financial hegemons. The Yankee nation, by contrast, is largely concerned with preserving its privileged economic and cultural position—with its elites pulling up the ladder behind themselves.
This schism between the old Confederacy and the Northeastern elites is far more relevant and historically grounded than the glib idea of “red” and “blue” Americas. The base of today’s Republican Party—once the party of the North—now lies in the former secessionist states, along with adjacent and culturally allied areas, such as Appalachia, the southern Great Plains, and parts of the Southwest, notably Arizona, largely settled by former Southerners.
“In almost every species of conceivable statistics having to do with wealth,” John Gunther wrote in 1946, “the South is at the bottom.”(continued)
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all those tiny and dying rust best states still each get TWO senators, so they will always matter.
What really needs to be done is to consolidate most of the North East into just a few states.
nope moved to Georgia.....northern part
Please feel free to call me a Yankee. I am very proud of my Rhode Island heritage: my Father served in WWII , my husband enlisted during Viet Nam, my son has done 3 tours in Iraq (40 months) and is away from home for the 4th time. If you went to the Free Republic Inaugural Ball for President Bush’s second term you would have seen his picture that graced the entrance to the festivities. My Father was a life long Conservative Republican as are my husband and my children, private school educated, and their spouses. Now that several of us have relocated to Texas the only place I seem to find hostility is here on Free Republic. That could be because most of the people that I encounter , that are filling the jobs in the DFW area, are also transplants.
As someone said in a previous post it is the ultra liberal elitists that you have a problem with not Yankees who are descendants of our Founding Fathers.
Eating a good Georgia or South Carolina peach is like eating watermelon.
You really need a bib or else you need to lean over to keep the juice from running down your shirt front!
Other than the Democrat power-brokers who led the people into a virulent racism that the people themselves rejected as soon as they could throw the powerful Democrats off their necks, what "worst...cultural baggage" is he talking about? The several times I had occasion to live in the south were pure heaven compared to business as usual in the north. Almost every one of my friends down there has not just a BA, but a graduate degree, professional membership or an entrepreneurial businss -- and all of them grew up with a working-class dad and a mom who stayed home to take care of them growing up. The most racist thing I've heard a white person say on my visits down there is this: "Black people. They drive either reeeeeeal fast, or reeeeeal slow."
Your point?
Do you bother to even try to get to know newcomers' politics before you insult them like that? Sheeesh...
I think of Texas as the ground of last refuge for American patriots. Many of them are coming here. If we can't keep freedom's banner held aloft here, then I believe the whole American experiment will fail.
Nope, as far as politics, there are Yankees and Damned Yankees. Take your self-rightous babble elsewhere.
Thanks for the ping!
Yeah. Don't count us out here in America's conservative heartland. I'd stack the economies of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho against the economies of just about any Southern state you would care to mention. And we don't have the hordes of liberal migrants from the North or foreign migrants from South of the border changing us from Red to Blue.
The South Shall Rise Again? Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Out here in Conservative Country we never fell to begin with.
But with millions of Mexican anchor babies being born here every year, we just can't hold back the inevitable much longer I am afraid. When my children were born, they were literally the only white kids in the hospital nursery. I was shocked.
I am the same as you, all Yankee’s are suspect until proven otherwise.
Flyover country.
Going their own seperate ways.
But people can and do change. It is just like moving, you get rid of the “junk” by putting out on the curb before you move. That is like when you go from one part of the country to another. You lose that.
Gov. Perry has been doing some visiting to CT.
Perry’s a big time globalist.
Well he sure has been doing a fishing trip for gun making companies in CT and the rest of New England.
I don't know that it's millions, but I take your point. There are certainly a lot of them being born in Texas (and every other border state) today.
One thing that may give you a bit of comfort, is the fact that on average, roughly 1,350 Americans move to Texas every day of the year. That's a little under half a million a year, and lots of them are having babies too.
I moved to Texas from California eight years ago, and brought four Rush babies with me :-)
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