IF, you ever want to have a legitimate conversation with me, you best drop all NASTY and DEGRADING referrences to the South, Southern People, Southern Food, or Southern Anything. Just keep all dislikes to yourself when speaking to me, as I am quite uninterested in any nasty and/or degrading posts...
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I guess I failed. I try to limit my negative comments to the degenerate slave aristocracy and its successors and its later influence. Not to everything about the South.
Why, I am a 100% biological (if not in principle or officially) Son Of a Confederate Veteran!!! I have a great great grandpappy whose name is on a local SCV's "Wall of Honor" of CSA vets down in Georgia. For some reason, I've never felt like joining the SCV though I suspect many of not most of the SCV members disagree with the anti-Lincoln nonsense I've learned about on this message board.
But I try not to denigrate the memory of great grandpappy and the other exploited suckers for slavery who fought for the CSA. My contempt is only with the principles of Slavery Inc., aka the CSA.
I don't think it is possible to degrade the antebellum south. Rather, they did that job themselves.