1 posted on
09/02/2007 6:32:35 PM PDT by
chasio649
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To: stainlessbanner
2 posted on
09/02/2007 6:37:51 PM PDT by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: TR Jeffersonian
3 posted on
09/02/2007 6:38:40 PM PDT by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: chasio649
Brings back memories of the three weeks this Yankee spent at Lend-A-Hand in Knox County, KY in the early 1980’s.
4 posted on
09/02/2007 6:41:40 PM PDT by
lightman
(The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be Exorcised.)
To: chasio649
Great to be a Southron,,Roll Tide...!!
5 posted on
09/02/2007 6:45:49 PM PDT by
silentreignofheroes
(When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
To: chasio649
consequences of one party rule for a century, like today’s inner cities?
7 posted on
09/02/2007 6:51:23 PM PDT by
gusopol3
To: chasio649
But singers like Gentry, like David Allen Coe arent making it up. They just report. It was like that. Yes, it was.
Fifty, sixty years later, some of it is gone forever. Some good, some bad.
And, the South, it's still a great place. Maybe a little better than it was.
9 posted on
09/02/2007 6:55:51 PM PDT by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: chasio649
Increasingly it is sung by people who were never there. Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry, to my eye anyway, pretend to be what they arent any more.This is the essence of the fall of country music. It used to be the truth sung by those who lived it. It is now a counterfeit art form and has the appeal of a three-dollar bill.
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12 posted on
09/02/2007 7:01:03 PM PDT by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
To: chasio649
ignorant beyond todays imagination I don't know - I can imagine some pretty severe ignorance. I've seen "Jay Walking" on Jay Leno.
13 posted on
09/02/2007 7:01:32 PM PDT by
Hardastarboard
(DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
To: chasio649
After being married to Bobbie Gentry
Jim Stafford said he knew why Billy Joe
jumped off that bridge.
15 posted on
09/02/2007 7:04:19 PM PDT by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
To: pax_et_bonum
remote hollers near Bluefield where inbreeding turned the people strange Highlands Texas ping.
To: chasio649
Fine piece of writing. Bigtime ping from Pikeville, Pike County, KY...the largest single-county coal producer in the USA.
19 posted on
09/02/2007 7:11:50 PM PDT by
BlackjackPershing
("The great object is that every man be armed." Patrick Henry)
To: chasio649
My memories of the south are from Selma, Alabama from 66-67. I was a military brat at Craig AFB, and no one connected with the federal government was very popular. After we were refused service at the Selma Del, we stayed on the base, ordered clothes from JC Penny and traveled to Florida for vacations.
I remember tar paper shacks, and driving down dirt roads where folks came out of what I assumed were barns or stables to stare at us. There was breath-taking poverty, but there was also good...walking with friends to the pool during the summer (the 2 TV stations we sometimes got didn’t show much) or running thru the woods to the Boy Scout camp to ‘borrow’ their canoe and paddle around the lake.
Conservatism is about conserving the good while having the discernment to know and reject the bad.
The ‘war on poverty’ helped get rid of tar paper shacks, but we’ve also lost families and a work ethic. We have computers and TV and can see what is happening from afar, but don’t know our neighbors’ names.
I have mixed feelings about the old south...
21 posted on
09/02/2007 7:20:29 PM PDT by
Mr Rogers
(I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
To: chasio649
Heck, the whole country’s different. It ain’t just the South.
22 posted on
09/02/2007 7:25:29 PM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(All that is gold does not glitter)
To: chasio649
Ode to Billy Joe, Bobby Gentrys song of bleak rural povertyThat's news to me. The song refers to hard work (choppin' cotton, balin' hay and plowing) and lots of food (black-eyed peas, biscuits, apple pie--"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite") but never to "bleak rural poverty."
23 posted on
09/02/2007 7:26:31 PM PDT by
catpuppy
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To: chasio649
The South is today, for so many people, a symbol of lynch law, slavery, benightedness, and masked riders in the night.We spread that rumor to keep the Damnyankees out...
30 posted on
09/02/2007 8:00:49 PM PDT by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: chasio649
My father, with the simple-minded patriotism of the South of the time, had gone back into the military to be an artillery spotter for the Marines in Korea. I can;t believe everybody missed this little gem.
31 posted on
09/02/2007 8:01:06 PM PDT by
HIDEK6
To: All; chasio649
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NEVER FORGET
.
The same WALTER CRONKITE who was on the side of Communism taking over a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War...
...went on to publically state at a year 2000 London World Conference that it was time for America’s 11 Southern States to secede from our Union.
The very same WALTER CRONKITE that is pushing now for HILLARY to regain control of our precious Oval Office...
...in a new time of war in a new century with our own Freedom directly at stake right here at home.
NUTS.
.
NEVER FORGET
45 posted on
09/02/2007 8:53:52 PM PDT by
ALOHA RONNIE
("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
To: chasio649
Ironically, Tupelo has one of the best school systems in Mississippi.
47 posted on
09/02/2007 9:01:04 PM PDT by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
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