[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.

[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...?

[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.

[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!

[bert]

NYC and all the northeast states must be purged from the Union

they are American enemies

[Alas Babylon!]

Does anyone see a trend here?

List of U.S. states by African-American population:

Percentage of population self-reported as African-American by state in 2010:

less than 2 %    2–5 %    5–10 %    10–15 %    15–20 %

20–25 %    25–30 %    30–35 %    35–40 %

Rank	State	African-American Alone Population (2010)[1]	% African-American
1	Mississippi	1,074,200	37.30%
2	Louisiana	1,452,396	31.98%
3	Georgia	3,150,435	31.4%
4	Maryland	1,700,298	29.44%
5	South Carolina	1,290,684	28.48%
6	Alabama	1,251,311	26.38%
7	North Carolina	2,048,628	21.60%
8	Delaware	191,814	20.95%
9	Virginia	1,551,399	19.91%
10	Tennessee	1,055,689	16.78%
11	Florida	2,999,862	15.91%
12	Arkansas	449,895	15.76%
13	New York	3,073,800	15.18%
14	Illinois	1,866,414	14.88%
15	New Jersey	1,204,826	14.46%
16	Michigan	1,400,362	14.24%
17	Ohio	1,407,681	12.04%
18	Texas	2,979,598	11.91%
19	Missouri	704,043	11.49%
20	Pennsylvania	1,377,689	10.79%
21	Connecticut	362,296	10.34%
22	Indiana	591,397	9.07%
23	Nevada	218,626	8.10%
24	Oklahoma	277,644	7.96%
25	Kentucky	337,520	7.71%
26	Massachusetts	434,398	7.02%
27	California	2,299,072	6.67%
28	Rhode Island	60,189	6.36%
29	Kansas	167,864	6.15%
30	Wisconsin	359,148	6.07%
31	Minnesota	274,412	4.57%
32	Nebraska	82,885	4.50%
33	Colorado	201,737	4.28%
34	Alaska	23,263	4.27%
35	Arizona	259,008	4.16%
36	Washington	240,042	3.74%
37	West Virginia	63,124	3.58%
38	Hawaii	21,424	3.08%
39	New Mexico	42,550	2.97%
40	Iowa	89,148	2.68%
41	Oregon	69,206	2.01%
42	Wyoming	4,748	1.29%
43	Utah	29,287	1.27%
44	New Hampshire	15,035	1.22%
45	South Dakota	10,207	1.14%
46	North Dakota	7,960	1.08%
47	Maine	15,707	1.03%
48	Idaho	9,810	0.95%
49	Vermont	6,277	0.87%
50	Montana	4,027	0.67%