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"Isn't it even odd that many of the crew chiefs in NASCAR are out of the northeast? I think seriously, it is simply because they can actually speak in a language everyone can understand, but seriously, it is because they can order themselves and others, stay sober, don't have to talk and puff a butt at the same time, get up in the morning, and make it to work on time."

Interesting commment, considering what you recently wrote on another thread:

"Slinging mud is one thing, citing facts are quite another. Facts establish a reasonable intolerance of a person or activity, mud slingers establish that they are unreasonably intolerant and bigoted. It is easy to establish the difference between facts and mud. Simply put, if you sling mud, be prepared for you and your intolerance to be minimalized in the body of public discourse."

I reckon you've just been "minimalized" as a bigoted, intolerant, mud-slingin' hypocrite.

The NASCAR reference was, what I thought, a quite apt illustration, a generalization of course, but something a southerner can relate too.

You notice I didn't refer to a redneck lowlife southerner who only gets out of his trailerhome when he runs out of Bud, Winstons, and when he has to go to general delivery to pick up his SSI check. My friend in Greenville SC who runs a construction company hires these kind for day labor but only when he knows they need a 30 pack and a carton because otherwise they have little ambition on the job.

I don't believe that when I made this observation that I was painting all southerners with the same brush, that is to say, I did not make one observation about a group and apply it to an individual. By observing a group I did not establish an unreasonable intolerance of an individual or even that group. I applied no outcome and made no statement of the fact.

Because of that, it is quite different than writing that because Mitt Romney is a member of LDS, therefore he is such and thus, without knowing the man or his history.