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Bias against Southerners misses the mark
Pasco Times ^ | July 11, 2005 | RICHARD COX

Posted on 07/14/2005 6:10:21 AM PDT by robowombat

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To: robowombat; stainlessbanner; wardaddy; WKB
I like how this article begins.

I personally like the outspokenness, mince-no-words attitude, the ability to criticize as well as accept criticism without being offended, that seems to represent the culture in which Northerners grew up.

I have to admit that, as a Southerner, I like those things too. I would also add that I admire and enjoy (at times) the Northern emphasis on speed and efficiency.

81 posted on 07/14/2005 11:35:22 AM PDT by bourbon (It's the target that decides whether terror wins.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
"Throw the cow over the fence some hay."

ROFLOL! What is so bad is I understand that perfectly. lol!

82 posted on 07/14/2005 11:37:23 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: taxed2death

I'm married to a girl who was born in Brooklyn, but who has learned over the years to appreciate a lot about the South. I have spent a lot of time in New York City and the surrounding area. Much of what I wrote was dripping with sarcasm, which was obviously lost on you.


83 posted on 07/14/2005 11:37:34 AM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: robowombat
Why does the link take me to some site with a rebel flag and not the "Pasco Times" like it says in the headline?

BTW. Where is Pasco? Is it in "Yankeeland" somewhere?

84 posted on 07/14/2005 11:44:21 AM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: eyespysomething

"A woman with a true southern accent can have a man wrapped around her finger in no time flat, if she wants."

Damn straight.


85 posted on 07/14/2005 11:45:01 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: robowombat

I once met a girl from up north at a party and we started hitting it off. After about an hour I complimented her, saying that she was a very impressive woman, both beautiful and intelligent.

You would have thought I had told her her mother was a hag and she must be married to Pop Eye. Someone tried to explain it to me as having something to with northern women's perspective of Southern men. Like, because I said what I did there was an implication that women shouldn't be smart or something.

I still don't get it.


86 posted on 07/14/2005 11:48:40 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: eyespysomething
A woman with a true southern accent can have a man wrapped around her finger in no time flat, if she wants.

Ain't that true.

87 posted on 07/14/2005 11:51:24 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan (Stop the Land Grabs - Markman, Taylor, Young, or Corrigan for SCOTUS)
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To: taxed2death

Allow me to comment. I have been to New Haven, AND the rest of your state, including Groton, where I had the misfortune to spend two years. New Haven is a stinkhole, as far as I am concerned, and your 13 percent tax rate sucks too! If you lived in New London you would DAMN sure have to lock your door. Who gives a rat's *ss about your ethnic foods? Southern Food is some of the best in the world. I would rather eat Crawfish etoufee or Gumbo in New Orleans any day, than the crap they call food in New York.
I have traveled up north and around most of this world, and would rather stay in Texas and the South than anywhere else. If you think the South is so bad, then please explain why all of your Yankee brothers are fighting each other to move down HERE!?


88 posted on 07/14/2005 11:51:35 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861 (General Robert E. Lee , an AMERICAN example of honor & courage!)
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To: billnaz
He will have to wear 25 pounds of clothes 11 months out of the year and wade through a ton of slush just to reach a cab.

What? The cold isn't bad. I'm out in a T-shirt when it's 50 degrees.

89 posted on 07/14/2005 11:57:54 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan (Stop the Land Grabs - Markman, Taylor, Young, or Corrigan for SCOTUS)
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He will have to live in a multi-story building with no yard or front porch.

You obviously have never been to NYC. You can buy a house with a yard in several of the Burroughs. Plus, there's always Jersey and the NY and Conn. suburbs if staring at grass and playing a banjo on your porch are your idea of amusement.

He will never meet his neighbors.

I knew all my neighbors in my apartment building in NY.

He will have to wear 25 pounds of clothes 11 months out of the year and wade through a ton of slush just to reach a cab.

As opposed to living in Houston or Atlanta, where he will have to stay inside 11 months out of the year to avoid heatstroke and plagues of mosquitos.

The food in the restaurants will be something he wouldn't slop hogs with back home.

Right. Because there are absolutely no good restaurants in NYC. All of the world-renowned chefs hang out there because they can't afford a bus-ticket to Raleigh.

Though, I guess if your idea of fine dining is deep-fried roadkill and a six-pack of beer, then NYC doesn't have good food.

If he greets someone on the street he will run the risk of being knifed.

Compare crime statistics in NYC with Atlanta, Houston, Birmingham and New Orleans and get back to us.

He will be subjected to an endless barrage of liberal propaganda.

Right. In NYC, Hillary Clinton runs around Times Square espousing her political beliefs. A liberal president would never come from a place like Georgia or Arkansas, after all.

It would take me all of five seconds to decide to stay in the South.

That's okay, you don't sound like you could make it in the big city, anyway.

90 posted on 07/14/2005 12:02:32 PM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Yes, Dan, I know. Don't get upset. I was using a little sarcasm to set off those from the far Northeast. I read that during the Civil War the troops from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and other midwestern states didn't like being called "Yankees" by the Confederates.


91 posted on 07/14/2005 12:03:22 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: Modernman

Please read my post #83.


92 posted on 07/14/2005 12:05:50 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: Lee'sGhost; eyespysomething
A woman with a true southern accent can have a man wrapped around her finger in no time flat, if she wants

I've never really found Southern girls attractive. Too fake and artificial.

93 posted on 07/14/2005 12:07:35 PM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: TexConfederate1861
If you think the South is so bad, then please explain why all of your Yankee brothers are fighting each other to move down HERE!?

It's sort of like the White Man's Burden: We feel the need to civilize the savages.

That process started when we whupped you in the Civil War and its coming along nicely now.

94 posted on 07/14/2005 12:12:55 PM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: TexConfederate1861
"would rather stay in Texas and the South than anywhere else."

Thanks. :)

"If you think the South is so bad,..."

You obviously can't read. Aside from commenting about bad pizza, piss-poor winter driving skills and some pretty high humidity, please cut and paste any statement where I said "The south is so bad"

You illiterates are coming out of the woodwork here.

Seems like you're "clueless southerner number two" on this thread.
95 posted on 07/14/2005 12:18:00 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: robowombat
And, yes, we all chew tobacco and sit on the front porch swing playing the banjo.

Everybody knows you can't swing playing the banjo.

96 posted on 07/14/2005 12:19:56 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: taxed2death

Well, I tried to stay out of this. I grew up near Charlotte, NC. After moving around the country some I wound up living just north of Johnson City, NY. I too really enjoyed the honesty of the people there. I DO have my favorite story about driving in snow to tell.

I was living in temporary quarters (hotel) in April of 1991 in Binghamton, NY. I came out of the hotel to find something white on the ground but the maintenance guy was having trouble keeping the snow blower running through it and I had to break it off the windshield of the car. I recognized that this ICE was the same thing that got called 'snow' in the south so I took it VERY easy driving into the office that day. I realized that Hwy 17 was very slick as I went under the bridge of the Johnson City exit. 10 minutes later, those yankees that can drive in the snow decided to have a 27 car meeting at that point on the highway. I got to work safely however.

The moral to this story is that even southerners can drive in SNOW, but Yankees can't drive in the ice any better than we southerners do.


97 posted on 07/14/2005 12:22:32 PM PDT by KenD
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To: billnaz

I'm married to a girl who was born in Brooklyn, but who has learned over the years to appreciate a lot about the South. I have spent a lot of time in New York City and the surrounding area. Much of what I wrote was dripping with sarcasm, which was obviously lost on you.

Yup... but I'm pretty thick skinned. No offense taken. In the end....we're all Americans... that's the only thing that counts FRiend.

Peace.


98 posted on 07/14/2005 12:25:06 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: bourbon

"I have to admit that, as a Southerner, I like those things too. I would also add that I admire and enjoy (at times) the Northern emphasis on speed and efficiency."

When travelling in the south I have found that some southerners are sometimes put off by my (Yankee) directness and businesslike way of conversing. I'm always quick with a genuine smile and it seems to smooth things out a bit. I've been all over Asia and I have to watch myself there too....
;)


99 posted on 07/14/2005 12:27:00 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Modernman

heheheheh... I knew you'd show up here sooner or later. Thanks for watching my back.

:)


100 posted on 07/14/2005 12:29:47 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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