Southern History A Burden to South, Benefit to American Image of Identity

Penn State News ^ | March 20, 2002 | A'ndrea Elyse Messer

[BLASTER 14]

This guy has a good point. In my years in the Army, I heard many more racial remarks from Yankees than from Southerners. FYI, I'm White.

Several Black friends told me that they would much rather deal with a Southerner than a Yankee. The reason all of them gave was that with a Southerner a Black knew where he stood. With a Yankee, they were always wondering where they stood.

[Intimidator]

Maybe so, but it still doesn't keep the yanks from moving down here.

[AUsome Joy]

You are so right. We moved to Boston in the mid 60's from Alabama and my husband heard more racist comments in the barber shop than he heard in Alabama. Of course, my folks would never allow any racist type talk in our house.

[Savage Beast]

“The standard history of American slavery taught in the schools ignores the reliance of the North on Southern slavery”

Not to mention the reliance of the North on Northern slavery.

Sojourner Truth was born a slave in New York in the 19th century. At the time of the Declaration of Independence, slavery was legal in every state. Slavery was legal and existed in Massachusetts more than 80 years longer than in Georgia. Etc. etc. Et al.

Slavery to the South is as the Scarlet Letter was to Hester Prynn--out in the open for everyone to see. She came to terms with it and insisted that nothing but a scarlet “A” be inscribed on her toombstone.

Slavery to the North is as the Scarlet Letter was to the father of Hester's illegitimate daughter, the puritan minister--worn under his coat where no one could see it. It ate into his heart.

[Savage Beast]

One place you can get an idea of the racial atmosphere of a place is the walls of the public men's restrooms. There tends to be a lot of racial graffiti in the Washington, D.C. area, but the worst place I have ever seen is Honolulu.

There seems to be a lot of homosexual graffiti in the Bible Belt but not much in California.

Maybe public restroom graffiti reflects frustrations and suppressed impulses in the local population.

I seemed to see an increased amount of wife-swapping graffiti in the restrooms of interstate highways--along with quite a bit of homosexual graffiti.

I'm really not intreagued with graffiti, but it does seem to reveal some things.

[Constitution Day]

Seen this?

[billbears]

Part of this dichotomy occurred when historians wrote slavery out of the history of the North. Once slavery was banned outside the Southern states, it was no longer an element of the Northern psyche. Historians erased Black Northerners from the history books along with the Northern slaves, Jansson says.

Oh, he'll be called a kook for this. The fact that he is right will not stop him from being labeled as a revisionist. His view and the truthful view of US history just doesn't jibe with yankee revisionist history and what's been forcefed to Southerners as true for the past 130 years

[stainlessbanner]

"The South as a geographic idea -- the identity of the South -- typically stands for a set of negative characteristics."

Actually, this is wrong. Southrons are a proud people, we do not "stand" for negative characteristics. In fact, one has only to look at the bible belt, our strong sense of family, and reputation for hard work - these are positive characteristics of the South.
However, others may "project" negative characteristics on the South (and indeed they do - look at Hollywood, the liberal news media, and public schools).

[shuckmaster]

I've never met a yankee that I liked.

[Constitution Day]

The fact that he is right will not stop him from being labeled as a revisionist.

Indeed, and he'll probably be labeled a racist, too.

Unreconstructedly yours,
CD

[aomagrat]

Yankee's are such hipocrites.

[one2many]

I've never met a yankee that I liked.

I have never met a damnyankee that I liked.

[stand watie]

or to quote my college roomie: "southerners like some blacks as individuals and dislike them as a group, while yankeees like us as a group, but have no use for us as individuals."

for dixie,sw

[stand watie]

i married a northern lady,BUT she was NOT a damnyankee. being a damnyankee is an inborn error of character imVho.

for a free dixie,sw