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1 posted on 02/26/2005 8:52:53 AM PST by churchillbuff
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I've never read it. I went to public schools in Jackson, MS post-segregation.


46 posted on 02/26/2005 2:34:10 PM PST by petitfour
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Naw, we can't read a lick.


47 posted on 02/26/2005 2:36:03 PM PST by Cold Heat (What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
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It mirrored the times.
Harper Lee is Southern
In fact, she was a playmate of Truman Capote's.


48 posted on 02/26/2005 2:37:58 PM PST by onyx (Henry Kissinger: Asked if SoS Rice calls him, replied, "no never, she doesn't need advice.")
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I have just pinged 3 Mississippi schooled Southern gents.


49 posted on 02/26/2005 2:40:01 PM PST by onyx (Henry Kissinger: Asked if SoS Rice calls him, replied, "no never, she doesn't need advice.")
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No we shoot him with our sling shots and BB guns


50 posted on 02/26/2005 2:41:54 PM PST by WKB (You can half the good and double the bad people say about themselves.)
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Robert Duvall played Boo.
It was his first role.


51 posted on 02/26/2005 2:42:27 PM PST by onyx (Henry Kissinger: Asked if SoS Rice calls him, replied, "no never, she doesn't need advice.")
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Pardon the vanity, but since there seem to be a lot of Freepers who are southerners

Indeed....we are "tolerated".

59 posted on 02/26/2005 3:56:56 PM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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Yes they do. My kids had to read it and do reports on it. Freeper Alkhin was in the play about a year ago, in Houston area theater, Ft. Bend county.


69 posted on 02/27/2005 9:12:41 AM PST by buffyt (It is important to protect people from a local crime - what about an entire nation??????)
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Yes they do. My kids had to read it and do reports on it. Freeper Aikhin was in the play about a year ago, in Houston area theater, Ft. Bend county.


70 posted on 02/27/2005 9:12:52 AM PST by buffyt (It is important to protect people from a local crime - what about an entire nation??????)
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Yea, we read it back in the '70s, in Texas.

It has some slams on the South, or on the way things were done in the South back then, but mostly it is a story of a man with great personal integrity who has to go against the mainstream for what he knows is right.

The part where the Sheriff spares Bo from being a hero is also significant. The boy wants no attention and the Sheriff spares him that.

(If I made any mistakes here, forgive me. It's been 30+ years since they made me read it.)

74 posted on 02/27/2005 10:00:35 AM PST by LibKill (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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I am old enough to have seen "White" and "Colored" signs.

We got rid of that. We kept the good stuff and trashed the cr-p. It was not easy and it came at a high price. It was worth it.

The South is stronger than ever and as beautiful as it ever could be.

75 posted on 02/27/2005 10:08:25 AM PST by LibKill (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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Atticus Finch comes off as a very good man and he is quite clearly very southern. His attitude is one of fairness and I don't think that's a rare commodity anywhere among ordinary people in this country.


78 posted on 02/27/2005 11:51:56 AM PST by muir_redwoods
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