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Another South(The Which There Mostly Ain't No More)
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| September 1, 2007
| Fred Reed
Posted on 09/02/2007 6:32:33 PM PDT by chasio649
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:32:35 PM PDT
by
chasio649
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:37:51 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: TR Jeffersonian
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:38:40 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: chasio649
Brings back memories of the three weeks this Yankee spent at Lend-A-Hand in Knox County, KY in the early 1980’s.
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:41:40 PM PDT
by
lightman
(The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be Exorcised.)
To: chasio649
Great to be a Southron,,Roll Tide...!!
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:45:49 PM PDT
by
silentreignofheroes
(When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
To: silentreignofheroes
They better ROLL with the dough they spent on the coach :D
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:48:23 PM PDT
by
chasio649
To: chasio649
consequences of one party rule for a century, like today’s inner cities?
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:51:23 PM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: lightman
Well, this son of the south, who grew up in the cotton fields of West Tennessee with a hoe in his hand, doesn't remember any "angular" people.
Nope, just a lot of good, hard-working and god-fearing people who put country ahead of self.
Twern't so bad!
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:51:43 PM PDT
by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: chasio649
But singers like Gentry, like David Allen Coe aren’t making it up. They just report. It was like that. Yes, it was.
Fifty, sixty years later, some of it is gone forever. Some good, some bad.
And, the South, it's still a great place. Maybe a little better than it was.
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posted on
09/02/2007 6:55:51 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: chasio649
Increasingly it is sung by people who were never there. Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry, to my eye anyway, pretend to be what they aren’t any more.This is the essence of the fall of country music. It used to be the truth sung by those who lived it. It is now a counterfeit art form and has the appeal of a three-dollar bill.
To: okie01
Fifty, sixty years later, some of it is gone forever. Some good, some bad.
And, the South, it’s still a great place. Maybe a little better than it was.
Pretty much how i see it...Fred isn’t running the south down...he has written many articles about his childhood including the good and the bad...my folks lived through the old days...some of it was good but a lot of it was bad and i wouldn’t want any of the bad to return....and BTW...Fred is telling the truth about being born into gentry...it was like that and is still that way in som places.
To: wardaddy; bkwells; DogwoodSouth; WileyPink; jmax; Islander7; 2ndDivisionVet; somniferum; ...
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posted on
09/02/2007 7:01:03 PM PDT
by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
To: chasio649
ignorant beyond today’s imagination I don't know - I can imagine some pretty severe ignorance. I've seen "Jay Walking" on Jay Leno.
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posted on
09/02/2007 7:01:32 PM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
http://www.ridgewayopryhouse.com/
Good clean country fun and music every Sat night. $5.00 admission, free food, non-alcoholic drinks for spare change and the music is picked and played by those who know whereof they sing.
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posted on
09/02/2007 7:03:46 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: chasio649
After being married to Bobbie Gentry
Jim Stafford said he knew why Billy Joe
jumped off that bridge.
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posted on
09/02/2007 7:04:19 PM PDT
by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
To: WKB
LOL...he didn’t like spiders and snakes either ;)
To: pax_et_bonum
remote hollers near Bluefield where inbreeding turned the people strange Highlands Texas ping.
To: chasio649
I agree. This piece had the right "feel". Fred was there. He lived it. You can tell.
I lived in rural Georgia in the early fifties. I knew, and played with, Fred's "Johnny Cox" and "Jim Bob McAllister". They were great kids. But they -- and their children -- are hugely better off living in the South today than their parents were.
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posted on
09/02/2007 7:07:47 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: chasio649
Fine piece of writing. Bigtime ping from Pikeville, Pike County, KY...the largest single-county coal producer in the USA.
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posted on
09/02/2007 7:11:50 PM PDT
by
BlackjackPershing
("The great object is that every man be armed." Patrick Henry)
To: chasio649
He was sorta fond of that
“Sack of seeds” though. :>)
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posted on
09/02/2007 7:17:35 PM PDT
by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
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