The whole point of this article is that people like you look at the South and see a bunch of dirt poor ignorant people. My husband and brothers have six figure incomes. Most people I know have college degrees in real fields like BSEE, and not some namby pamby yankee Gay Studies or some such. We have better manners, dress better, smell better, look better and hold ourselves to a much higher moral standard than any stinking yankee. I am sick and tired of stupid yankees living in what looks like a third world bombed out city like New York, Detroit or Los Angeles and looking down on those of us in Pensacola, Dallas, or Huntsville, Alabama.
No, we are most certainly not poor and no, we do not lack indoor plumbing.
First, I am not Jewish. Second, I am not from the North. Third, I grew up in the rural upper South (and still live here) in a miserable shack with no indoor bathroom or hot-and-cold running water. I didn't have this luxury until I was 26 years old. We didn't even have a telephone till earlier that year! (Shoot, our old chimney broke off and we had to stick a gin-pipe into it!) And it wasn't because we were lazy; my father worked like a dog and got nothing!!!
The whole point of my post was that liberals are a bunch of freaking hypocrites, but you want to go and get offended at it. For your information, I am well aware that most Southerners live exactly like everybody else in the country. But what many people (and apparently you as well) fail to realize is that many poor whites here in America until fairly recently (and today too) lived in Third World-style poverty, and all liberals did was laugh!!!!!
Why don't you get mad at someone else???
I live in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee and the only place I ever lived where I didn't have indoor plumbing was in Minnesota.