Posted on 06/28/2015 1:12:37 PM PDT by Hojczyk
bkmk
It’s actually several things
Our Anglo Saxon DNA with speech inflection from a certain era
The heat....yes it no doubt slows your brain
Manners....southerners of decent upbringing* regardless of rich or poor consider rudeness and talking over folks or spouting off bad form
Fast speech does not indicate intelligence or wisdom....
*Dixie has sadly seen a rise in dignity-less white trash in recent years which frankly defies comprehension.....Tennessee is eat up with it......Kentucky too......the Deep South and Texas not so much
I doubt I have to explain what I’m talking about to most here
Reno....man I love northern Nevada and Susanville to Shasta
Hoss and Little Joe country
I’m not a bit Anglo-Saxon.
My roots are all Celtic.
Technically, I’m not even “southern”, though we speak “Highland Southern”.
Hillbillies are a people all their own.
:)
You’re wrong Sargon
Point in fact 40% of blacks in Mississippi voted to keep our flag recently
Most in the a south are apathetic or ambivalent
Most non activist blacks in Dixie just want to live their lives like anyone else
These nuts like council members in Memphis and Nashville are making political has to divert from their real problems which are self inflicted
Northern blacks...they’ve been hostile a lot longer
I say this from experience dating to the 60s
See Andrew Youngs comments
You’re correct though that nobody owns the interpretation but that is pretty much true of anything except Gods word
Us too. One of the reasons we picked it to retire after 24 yrs in FL. Politics aren’t what I had hoped for but we are working on changing that. LOL! Even found an old HS buddy that moved here from Cali. Plus, they’re helping the conservative needs here.
My mother-in-law-—God love her and I do, too-—is a tall, elegant, sophisticated woman, still stunning at 72. She and her husband are a self-made success story. But she picked up the idea that she needed to shed her Southern accent in order to be appropriate for business. I find that sad.
I once had a Yankee say to me approvingly, “I can’t believe you’re from here. You don’t have much of an accent.” My response was, “Well, thank you for telling me. I’m going to have to work on that.”
Compared to the deep South, I guess Virginians don’t have a pronounced accent. My Freeper friend in New Jersey thinks I do, though, LOL. I tell her SHE’S the one with the accent, not me.
I know it probably astounds Yankees, but down here we get along just fine with black folks. There’s no racial unrest of the type you see in the larger Northern cities. Yes, sometimes you’ll hear of a black group wanting to start a “dialogue” on race or something, but it usually ends up as a story on the local news and then goes away.
Yesterday I saw some old boys driving around in a big pickup truck with a Confederate flag streaming in the back. I’d like to see someone who got a bright idea from Twitter try to tear down that flag...I have a feeling he’d get his head shoved down his neck.
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