Thank you for drawing my attention back to this thread. I haven’t had a chance to read much of it, but now I’ll make it a point to.
I don’t understand the bigotry directed against the South. I’ve lived a few places around this great land, and all the best places have been in Dixie. I’m moving back to Dixie right this minute. Everyone I’ve told up north has had positive things to say. Some of them have expressed a bit of envy at not being able to come along. The race baiters on this thread might be surprised at who have expressed the strongest desire to move to the South.
When I moved to the northern town I’m now moving away from, I was surprised at the level of racial segregation and disharmony. There’s a “colored church” in the poor part of town. Everyone calls it the colored church, including the people who go there. There are areas that a white woman dare not go. I accidentally wandered into one of those areas, once. Only once. Every place I’ve lived in the South has been fully integrated. Every place I’ve lived outside of Dixie has been effectively segregated to one degree or another. I spent my early childhood in the north and midwest. I was nine before I ever met a black person. How many Southerners can say that? Or would even want to?
It seems to me, the BATS (I like that term) are stuck in the past. And it’s a past that never even existed in the real world.
I wasn’t born in Dixie, and I haven’t had the pleasure of living in Dixie for the past several years, but Dixie is my home. I have my bags packed ~ correction, I threw everything in the car so fast I didn’t get it packed in the luggage. I have my car packed so full I can’t see in the rear view mirror, but that’s fine, that’s not the direction I’m looking.
South Carolina will be lucky to have you...some of our best politicians (and worst..lol) are there.
Excellent post. Like you tag line too.