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Say what? Iowa first lady slammed blacks, Easterners and Southerners as bad speakers
Boston Herald ^ | July 26, 2004 | David R. Guarino

Posted on 07/26/2004 7:40:49 AM PDT by HalfFull

Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, a key factor in John Kerry's primary sweep and the primetime convention speaker tomorrow, has derided blacks, southerners and easterners as bad speakers because she couldn't understand them.

In inflammatory columns for her local newspaper obtained by the Herald, the normally soft-spoken Vilsack tore into several minority and ethnic groups while lampooning non-midwesterners for regional dialects.

``I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand, then switch to standard English when the situation requires,'' Vilsack wrote in a 1994 column in the Mount Pleasant News, while her husband, Tom, was a state senator.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: christievilsack; racistdemocrats; vilsack; vilsak
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To: PistolPaknMama
Bofe of y'all left out the part about the swag in the road just past the hog pen. No wonder this poor great visionary socialist couldn't find her way around down here.

Sorry, ma'am. We ain't got none 'em hawg pens where I growed up, I didn't never even think t'mention it.

Now if'n y'all 'scuse me, I reckon I'm gonna head on home, have me a cold Co-Cola, and thow me some steaks onna grill.

(I have NO idea how many different Southern dialects I just ran through in three sentences, LOL)

}:-)4

81 posted on 07/26/2004 5:14:31 PM PDT by Moose4 (Remember, change your tagline every 3 months or 3,000 posts, whichever comes first.)
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To: Darksheare

As an amateur linguist, I would luv to spend time with these righteous dudes!!!


82 posted on 07/26/2004 5:14:53 PM PDT by Laura Earl (Involuntary lurker during business hours.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

When my wife met my mother for the first time, she was fascinated by my mom's accent--she actually jokingly told me, "Why does your mother sound like she's from Scotland?"

It turns out that in the particular area of Virginia where I grew up--the Blue Ridge foothills, Lynchburg over to Roanoke--you often hear an accent where the word "house" isn't pronounced "howse," it comes out as a cross between "hoose" and "hearse" minus the R. I grew up with it (and I don't have it, interestingly enough), I never even paid it a thought. But my Atlanta-bred wife caught it instantly.

I love the South Carolina Lowcountry accent...well, except when I hear Fritz Hollings. :) And I'm fascinated by different Southern dialects.

}:-)4


83 posted on 07/26/2004 5:18:16 PM PDT by Moose4 (Remember, change your tagline every 3 months or 3,000 posts, whichever comes first.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

She don't like the Jerr-zey accent? Maybe I should call her on the phone and speak with her about it for a few hours. Ya think?


84 posted on 07/26/2004 5:32:05 PM PDT by dbwz (CAN THE BAN!)
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To: Moose4
"house" isn't pronounced "howse," it comes out as a cross between "hoose" and "hearse" minus the R.....I love the South Carolina Lowcountry accent...

No wonder you love the low country accent. They all talk like you describe! I was once instructed to go to the hoose for loonch. (They were having BBQ for lunch...LOL)

I live about 25 miles from Orangeburg and surprisingly from Orangeburg to the coast I can't understand half of what they're saying. Never dawned on me to get my own newspaper column to ridicule them, however! /sarcasm :-)

85 posted on 07/26/2004 6:07:14 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (www.cantheban.net --Can the "assault" weapons ban!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Dixie accent bump!


86 posted on 07/26/2004 6:12:37 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (www.cantheban.net --Can the "assault" weapons ban!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Dixie accent bump!


87 posted on 07/26/2004 6:12:55 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (www.cantheban.net --Can the "assault" weapons ban!)
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To: Laura Earl

LOL!
One of them was me..


88 posted on 07/26/2004 6:24:53 PM PDT by Darksheare (Road Killed Beeber Association, paving the world, one troll at a time...)
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To: Constitution Day

For disgruntled transplanted yankees, in the words of the late Lewis Grizzard, 'Delta is ready when you are.'


89 posted on 07/27/2004 12:27:51 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices

So is I-95 North!


90 posted on 07/27/2004 12:53:04 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

Don't let the kudzu hit 'em on the ...


91 posted on 07/27/2004 2:04:27 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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