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"We have been invaded by liberal Yankees and Illegals from the South of the border.

What the yankees did to the south the muslims are doing to America.
They move to escape conditions they don't like and immediately start trying to recreate the conditions they just escaped.

When yankees move to the south they say two things:

We love it here in the south - the southern people, the culture, the spirit of freedom and independence are so refreshing
We are so glad to be rid of the high taxes and oppressive, meddling, liberal nanny state governments up north

Then they do two things:

They start to whine about all the great things they got from government "back home" but don't have in the south
They push for taxes to recreate the oppressive, meddling, liberal nanny-state governments they left up north

So they weasle their way into local and state governments, raise taxes, spend money on grandiose projects (so out of place in the south), then push for rules and laws to diminish the southern people, change the culture, and replace the spirit of freedom and independence with overbearing governments that intrude into every aspect of life.

They aren't happy until they build performing arts centers, symphony orchestras, and musems that benefit no one except the displaced yankees and their friends. Their dream projects must be constructed and supported by raising taxes on native southernners who would rather be off to the beach, the mountains, fishing, hunting, trapping, four-wheeling or farming.

As a New England "Yankee" who spends a lot of time down South (and has a lot of family there), I have to call foul on that. While transplants undoubtedly contribute somewhat to the "liberalization" of the South, it is for the most part native born Southerners who are responsible for introducing nanny-state big government in their areas.

I'm old enough to remember when places like Georgia and Alabama were mostly made up of self-reliant farmers but those days are long gone. Now we have a great many native Southerners spending most of their time in their darkened air-conditioned trailers watching television and aimlessly moving from dead-end job to dead-end job, often on the government dole, and bitching about how little the government is helping them. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just calling it as I see it.

Obviously there are still great patriotic Americans in the Southland (just like there are up North) but their numbers are declining rapidly as younger generations, brainwashed and made brain-dead by the trash culture that permeates TV, are replacing them. Thanks to mass media, the newer generations of Southerners are becoming indistinguishable from their counterparts elsewhere. They are even losing their distinctive accents. And the obesity and meth-use down there with the younger crowd...it's absolutely out of control. Don't argue with me on that, I frequently go down there and I see it firsthand.

This entire country needs a wake-up call.

They aren't happy until they build performing arts centers, symphony orchestras, and musems that benefit no one except the displaced yankees and their friends.

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Wow.