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To: Iron Munro
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.

15 posted on 01/25/2009 9:19:10 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 36 days away from outliving John F. Kennedy)
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To: SamAdams76
This entire country needs a wake-up call.

So true

32 posted on 01/25/2009 1:41:16 PM PST by ncpatriot
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