Results of AP-Ipsos poll on attitudes about Southerners

The Macon Telegraph ^ | 11/24/2005 | AP

[Spktyr]

Anyone who said the South is not really that different from other areas of the country is obviously clueless.

The South and West is what is probably going to end up saving this country from the liberals on the coasts and in the Northeast. Maybe Abraham Lincoln had a point after all...

That said, save your Confederate money - the South *will* rise again. Maybe it already has...

[csmusaret]

A lot of the east coast is in the south.

[Spktyr]

Not the true South, anyway. :)

[csmusaret]

Va,NC,SC,GA,Fl,AL,MS,LA,TX are not in the true south?

[Spktyr]

Since when is MS, LA, and TX the East Coast?

[csmusaret]

Yeah I know. AL too. I was on a roll and just couldn't stop myself.

[armydawg1]

Up until it became politically incorrect about 20 yrs ago, as you were driving south across the Ohio River bridges into Louisville, KY, you encountered a large billboard on top of a building that said, "Welcome to the South."

It was a greeting to us Southerners that we were home, that we could be ourselves in this region, that no one would laugh at our dialect, that there would be no jokes or snickers when we were in a crowd.

I have lived in Europe and over a large part of this country, but when we had a chance, we headed back to Georgia and the South. There is a difference, its beautiful, gracious and charming. Its much more blended with the rest of America now, but our South still lives on.

[Savage Beast]

"The South and West is what is probably going to end up saving this country..."

Y'got that right!

I'm hoping Canada will swap us the Prairie Provinces and the Maritime Provinces for the Leftist enclaves of the U.S. Then from a comfortable vantage point we can watch them sink into The Third World as we, of course, continue to ascend to new heights.

[mirkwood]

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"For this poll, the South was defined as the 11 ex-Confederate states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, plus Kentucky and Oklahoma"

The part of Missouri I come from will get some big time whup ass bestowed upon a stranger calling someone a Yankee.

More civil war battles (not the big ones) fought in Missouri for any state except Virginia.

[WKB]

Mississippi ping

[wardaddy]

[wardaddy]

horrible war in Missouri...all the fault of Yankee redlegs of course..lol

[M. Espinola]

"That said, save your Confederate money - the South *will* rise again."

Keep dreaming.

[SuziQ]

It was a greeting to us Southerners that we were home, that we could be ourselves in this region, that no one would laugh at our dialect, that there would be no jokes or snickers when we were in a crowd.

We get the same feeling when we're heading South on I-81 and see the Mason-Dixon Line sign. Our kids laugh because we always cheer!

[KarinG1]

They didn't mention the percentage of Southerners who hang up on pollsters so I polled the seven people sitting in my yard drinking beer around the bonfire. 100% said they do.

[NapkinUser]

From New York, pay no heed.

[wardaddy]

I always play Sweet Home Alabama when we hit Bama on our way to Seagrove FL

my kids thank God that at least it's not the Grateful Dead again..lol

[SuziQ]

my kids thank God that at least it's not the Grateful Dead again..lol

*snort*