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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.

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"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."

This could easily apply to a Redneck Northerner living in rural Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Etc.