Politico Essay on South Incredibly Cruel, Demeaning...and Oddly Familiar

Townhall.com ^ | July 9, 2015 | Matt Towery

[SumProVita]

Poor Matt Towery! It is blatantly obvious that he is utterly envious of southerners. :-P

[Neoliberalnot]

As bigoted an article as ever published against fellow Americans that don’t subserve the leftist criminals.

[SumProVita]

Correction: Poor MICHAEL LIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SumProVita]

Love your tagline! ;-)

[Michael.SF.]

America would be "less violent" and "more normal, without Dixie."

Sounds like an argument for secession.

[KC_Conspirator]

Lind is just another hate filled, Austin liberal.

[NRA1995]

America would be far less violent without DC, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit and other liberal-run cities.

[mrsmel]

Yes, ignore that elephant in the room which is behind a lot of the negative statistics for the South. Don’t look all the way under the bed, you might see the monster.

[Ohioan]

The attack on Southern values is, and has been for over a century, a calculated attack on the America of the Founding Fathers. It is a revival of the hate campaign that Marxist admirers like Thaddeus Stevens unleashed in "Reconstruction." The newer 20th Century version being launched in 1909, by Fabian Socialists, in an effort to wreck the kindly disposed efforts of Booker T. Washington to achieve racial reconciliation and Black progress in the South. But it was soon adopted by other Leftists, as a way to undermine the cultural achievements of the settler peoples who established our Constitutional heritage.

See Creating Hate In America Today.

The promoters of this hate campaign have been emboldened, lately, by the large number of recent college graduates, who seem totally clueless as to American history, American values, and the connection of the actual dynamics of a free society to the actual success of any truly free people. Hence, the attack has been ratcheted up--as everyone has noticed--to include not only hatred of Southern culture & artifacts; but redefinition of more & more words in the English language. Thus, White achievement is suddenly redefined as "White privilege"; and offense at common phraseology, with which only someone really paranoid could possibly take offense, is rationalized as being a response to "micro-aggressions."

It is getting increasingly ugly as the Left continues what they believe will be a successful end game strategy. If they succeed? Haven't read Ann Coulter's new book; but I believe that that is the subject.

[The Toll]

As a Southerner I can say this article was THE MOST racist rant against Black People I have ever heard. Every single negative the Author designates as “southern” exist in the Black population only.

[Arm_Bears]

Contrast the recent events in Baltimore and Charleston.

In Baltimore, riots, egged on by the mayor of the city, follow the questionable death of a known dirt-bag; ostensibly at the hands of the police.

In Charleston, nine innocents are gunned-down in church by a racist lunatic; yet the community, Black and White, comes together with calls for Christian forebearance and forgiveness.

That’s what you need to know about the difference between North and South.

[Albion Wilde]

"The American South, with the lowest rates of intergenerational social mobility in the U.S., clearly skews the national statistics..."

And the problem with loving where you and how things are done there so much that you don't want to leave is...?

[Zionist Conspirator]

The attack on Southern values is, and has been for over a century, a calculated attack on the America of the Founding Fathers. It is a revival of the hate campaign that Marxist admirers like Thaddeus Stevens unleashed in "Reconstruction."

Don't tell me . . . The Republican party was "red from the beginning" and Abraham Lincoln was a "Communist dictator" . . .

Right???

[Albion Wilde]

According to the FBI in 2012, the South as a region, containing only a quarter of the population, accounted for 40.9 percent of U.S. violent crime."

It also houses the largest percentage of "Obama's" people.

[tanknetter]

Yes, it certainly does.

Here’s an interesting thought: provoke Northeastern and West Coast Liberals into being the ones who demand secession this time around.

Then simply give them what they demand.

[Ohioan]

Why don’t you read Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, before you try to link Lincoln with the hate driven Pennsylvania Congressman. Your comment is looney.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Pollster1]

It skewers the region, proclaiming that America would be "less violent" and "more normal, without Dixie."

Make it happen, and I will cheerfully move to the South. They have far better values than the North's liberals, and they have not had slavery for 150 years.

[Twinkie]

Well. . . . we tried to secede once - really, really hard. - You sent down armies to invade us & force us to straighten out & fly right. - Crybaby!