[antisocial]

"Southerners, as well as illegals, need to assimilate. They are living in unassimilated enclaves and don't speak the language."

Wait just a minute there, Southerners don't need to assimilate. Yankees need to stop their invasion of the South. Illegals don't need to assimilate, they need to be deported. Come to think of it Yankees need to be deported too. Texas is being invaded by Yankees and illegals simultaneously, it's really starting to get aggrevating.

[Wallace T.]

With regard to assimilation, the Northerner from a Midwestern or Middle Atlantic background is usually far from a hard core Yankee. I live in a northern suburb of Dallas where several Northern based denominations, such as the Reformed Church in America (moderately liberal), the Christian Reformed Church (somewhat conservative), and the North American Baptist Convention (very conservative) started church plants in the 1970s and 1980s, due to a migration of Midwesterners into the Dallas area. Two of the three churches have closed down, as the members or their children shifted to similar churches with a strong and longstanding presence in the South. The third church, Christian Reformed in past affiliation, has recently switched to the Presbyterian Church in America, a conservative denomination with a majority of its congregations located in the South.

Assimilation of Northerners of conservative political and theological sentiment into the Southern mainstream is taking place and is a good thing. Better Dick Armey (North Dakota native) or Ron Paul (born in Pennsylvania) than Ann Richards or Molly Ivins, both native Texans, the former a descendant of early Texas pioneers.

[tkathy]

It was an evil confederate, commy pinko plot to take some of the warmest states for their unassimilated enclaves that still don't speak the language.