TRANSLATION: All things Southern are bad. Only people from the East and Left coasts are good.
Spot on. Let's do a bit of further analysis here.
The population of the southern states is heavily black. Thus blacks are bad people by their very nature. Maybe we should abort them all to keep their numbers down.
Perhaps this is not exactly how the NYT reasons but the effect of the policies they advocate are such that one would be hard pressed to tell the difference.
Well said! Some of the healthiest, most long-lived people in the world are Southern and enjoy the distinctive dishes of the region.
As much as I admire President Calvin Coolidge, he died far too young, largely because of his food choices -- a Yankee diet. And as much as the contemptible Jimmy Carter deserves all the scorn he gets (and more), he's been quite healthy until recently. Why? His Southern diet! If only he had embraced the values of the South as well as its cuisine, he could have been a good man instead of a slave to liberalism.
Native of SC farm country and I have generally despised most southern food. No idea why. Ate a lot of peanut butter.