Posted on 12/08/2006 2:09:43 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
In this poster, Mrs. Carter almost resembles Mrs. Reagan though Nancy is six years older.
That is one scary article. He really believe it! "Anyone who disagrees with me is evil."
I might agree on the negative view of the rural south on jews. Not much has changed in 50 years and if you had a family or two of jewish descent move into a small town...it would ripple across the entire town. Acceptance would be very difficult. I'm betting Jimmy is no better than any of these people...simply a negative view growing up and still the same today.
Why the poor rural Southerner-bashing? I grew up poor in the rural South (as a matter of fact, I'm still poor in the rural South!) and I was never anti-Jewish. I believe that the rural Bible-Belt South is probably the most pro-Israel part of the country. Even continual bashing by the liberal American Jewish establishment hasn't dulled the Bible Belt's enthusiasm for Israel.
Just how many of the "settlers" in YeSH"`A are bankers, anyway?
That's not the point. The point is that many folks in rural areas, be it the South, Midwest or Great Plains, had little to no contact with Jews, since most Jews lived in cities or towns even in those areas. Not many Jewish farmers in the 1930s. Thus if a farmer, in Nebraska say (which is where my wife's Grandfather lived), knew any Jews at all, they were likely to be bankers or merchants, and the contact was likely to be strictly commercial. With the economic problems of rural America in the 20s and 30s, those contacts were quite likely not to be very pleansant.
I wasn't bashing Jews, if anything I was bashing the stiff necked rednecks (can Danes be Rednecks?) who judged an entire group based on no contact, or contact with only one or two individuals.
I don't know why so few Jewish immigrants became farmers, but the same was true in one degree or another of (later wave) Irish and Italian immigrants as well. Germans, Scandinavians, Poles and other eastern Europeans, yes, the former groups not so much. Until WW-II, America was an agricultural country, measured in terms of numbers employed in various industries and occupations.
I know you weren't bashing Jews. I didn't accuse you of bashing Jews. I accused you of bashing rural Southerners which you then proceeded to do AGAIN in your words quoted above.
I repeat: rural Southerners are the most pro-Israel part of the nation. They hold this position in spite of much Jewish hostility and attempts to alienate or discourage them. They deserve better than for you to dump Jimmy Carter's psychpathy on his being a rural Southerner.
Shame on you again!
PS: YOu are aware, are you not, that I am a rural Southern "redneck" rather than a Jew?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.