I admire my southern countrymen and women for many things. I am grateful for much of what they have done and continue to do for this nation. I admire much in them that is graceful, honest, polite, hard working, family-oriented, and patriotic.
But this absolute failure to see the reality of a past that is not their fault or their burden, which they nonetheless feel compeled to advance, saddens and confuses me.
Were it not for this willful blindness I would cosider it not a boast to call them the greatest America has to offer in a land of beauty and liberty. More is the pity. My love-hate with the south goes on.
Us silly Rebs will keep up the good fight, then. Have fun with your snow shovel.