[mstar]

CBW; "Fourth, Southern planters, elites as you and x called them, did not share the same snobbish attitudes as yankee elites, which is true today. We don't look down on people based on their skin color, education or income level they way you yankees do."

x: "That has to be either the stupidest, or the most insane, or the most mendacious thing posted here in a long, long time."

mstar; "it would be a privilege to serve them."

SS; "Likewise, mstar:)"


You know I have been pondering why some coven members on this thread find this so hard to believe of us southerners.

My own family traditions, gleaned from the backbone of Southern hospitality, are based on Christian Biblical principles.

The verses that come to mind are;

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves" Philippians 2:3

"Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves." Rom 12:10

I guess if one keeps this in mind, guests and other folks in your life, are all made to feel welcome, esteemed, and served ice tea.

just works out better that way doesn't it

[central_va]

My own family traditions, gleaned from the backbone of Southern hospitality, are based on Christian Biblical principles.

Well at least we have the common decency to pretend to do that when "those strange Northern people" are around.

When they start carrying torches we can be down right inhospitable.

[southernsunshine]

I guess if one keeps this in mind, guests and other folks in your life, are all made to feel welcome, esteemed, and served ice tea.

just works out better that way doesn't it

I was raised as you were and can't imagine it any other way! I really does just work out better this way")

[x]

Nice ideals, but how do you account for a century of segregation if Southern planters "did not share the same snobbish attitudes as yankee elites, which is true today" and didn't "look down on people based on their skin color, education or income level they way you yankees do" as cowboyway put it?

Were slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and lynching all the fault of the evil "yankees"?

I get it. Your history is more than that. Those things are all a part of our common American heritage -- North as well as South. You want to be proud of your ancestors.

Fine, but why the whitewash and why all this sniping at the North? If you share the values you expressed in your post why would you put up with all the boastfulness about the superiority of the South to the North?