[Lee Heggy]

No one is 'still fighting the civil war' but there is such a thing a 'Southern Culture'. It has nothing to do with flags, dueling banjos or Jeff Foxworthy stereotypes. It's an attitude of gracious respect for another persons opinions and open hospitality towards guests as long as they deserve it. Your 'friendly advice' is soaked in the tone of condesension expected of hollow earth society members towards flat earth society folks. I take no resentment at it since I am mental and teasing me only tickles... I have to take my meds now and move on to the other offerings of Free Republic where I can take the posts seriously.

[LTCJ]

Well said, sir.

[IrishCatholic]

Close but strike one. The commentary was a warning to someone who doesn't understand the Dixie Ping list. I didn't refer to Robert E. Lee at all.
As far as Southern culture is concerned you might just have to specify the time. Current? Forty years ago with fire hoses and bombing of churches? Eighty years ago with lynching of blacks with the town gathered for the photo's? How about 160 years ago when you could own another human being simply by the amount of pigment in their skin?
The South of today is no better nor worse than any other part of the country from the Northwest to well, ok, not the Northeast, but any other segment. But do not regale me with fond tales of a bygone era. They exist only as fantasy for those descended from the owners, not the property.