Posted on 12/11/2004 10:58:12 AM PST by Log
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) The state slogan "Heart of Dixie," a source of pride to some and embarrassment to others, is disappearing from more Alabama license plates every year.
One-third of the groups that promote distinctive and collegiate license plates now choose to leave the slogan off their tags.
The standard state license plate still has "Heart of Dixie," but it's reduced to letters one-sixteenth of an inch high and it's placed in the bottom corner of the tag where it's barely visible to passing motorists.
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
But the South kept slaves, so the word "south" is just code for race hate and must be banned. Those states should therefore be called the Less-Northern states.
Likewise, the hateful Mason-Dixon Line will henceforth be called the Mason Line so as not to offend.
And doesn't WalMart glorify history's oppression when we call them "chain" stores?
Allowing folks to speak in a Southren drawl? Just another thinly-coated tribute to slaveholders.
And don't get me started about Sara "Lee" cheesecake. Or Sammy "Davis" and Jesse "Jackson." Just more subterfuge to keep hate alive.
Suburban NYC is the most segregated region of the country, IMHO. You have towns (and school districts) that are 99% white, next to towns that are 99% black. People in parts of Lawn Guyland still freak out if a black moves onto their block. So much for the "tolerant" northeast.
amen
You must not travel a lot.
I've traveled a lot in my career and I've seen racism in other areas far worse than in the south. In fact, I know a lot of blacks that would tell you they would much rather live in the south because of this.
I grew up in Alabama and I had never heard the racial comments that I've heard in places like Chicago, NYC, LA, St. Louis, etc.
I've never been to Alabama, but I do have a substantial Southern clientele and I've not heard one good thing about Alabama I hate to say :( Oh all except football. They love the football that's it *LOL*
It must depend on the part of Alabama then because I have a lot of black Southern clients who did all they could to get out of Alabama (most joined the military). I've heard that the racism here where I live is more prevelant than say... North Carolina.
Oh, I like that. It offends me to mention England and be referring to a part of the United States. Since I'm offended (and I am very, very important) it should be stopped immediately. :')
So true. Cities like Chicago have it divided even further. The neighborhoods are divided into Chinese, Italians, Germans, Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Irish, Poles, etc.
I love it when they want to lecture the South.
I don't see what the big deal is, 'heart of dixie'. It reminds me of 'empire state' and btw there is a license plate for some state that says 'live free or die'. How on earth is 'heart of dixie' more offensive than 'live free or die'? LOL
Good Lord Aggie...you beat this drum incessantly. Did night riders piss in yer cheerios or something? relax...take a bong hit...lol
I think it has more to do with economic opportunity. Alabama isn't a good place for a lot of blacks and whites because of this.
Again, I traveled North America for many years in my career. I've been to probably every major city (100,000+ population) in the US. The South certainly doesn't have the exclusive on racism. In fact, the most offensive comments I've heard weren't in the South.
That's why I used to sit by myself in college so I could study *LOL*
LOL!!!
Don't know if it were true when you were up there, but NYC seems to attract many liberal and/or gay Southerners. I worked with a guy from Georgia and a guy from Alabama who were "freinds of Dorothy." Interestingly enough, they spoke nothing but good things about their respective home states, aside from the generally monotony of life down there.
agreed...I've heard from these same clients that poverty in the North is NOT the kind of poverty you find in the rural South. There are whole towns with mostly black and some poor white population that everyone seem to have forgotten after the civil rights movement. As a side note, I often wonder why big companies don't build factories there instead of overseas? I will also report that when my mother first came to this country, certain parts of the South were not nice to travel in. Now it's so very different. I don't see the liberals ever give that kind of credit to people.
I have lived in the South and the north and find the north much more devisive and phoney.
NYC votes over 80% liberal democrat but has loads of racism.
"The "progressives" would have a hissy fit over my license plates from Virginia that have tobacco leaves on them!!!!"
I hope you took a number, 'cause you're probably next!
My mother works in Great Neck where they think only oly crotchety white people should drive expensive cars apparently. She's been called 'nig' more times than I think she really tells me. There are lots of poor whites on Long Island who are as bad about the victim mentality you see with the black people here. Very strange. I'm inclined to agree with you based upon what my mom tells me.
PS....we used to fly the Stars and Bars in Central Park back then for Mississippi Day and such lefty luminaries as Hodding Carter, Tom Wicker, and Willie Morris and others including darker hued folk would drop by and no one thought a thing of it. This kettle of koolaid about Southern chauvinism from which Aggie so lustfully imbibes is a relatively new invention wedge devised by our common foes....the Left.
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