Posted on 11/14/2020 10:27:14 AM PST by Jacob Kell
When I was growing up in Ohio, the South began at the banks of the Ohio river. Below that muddy line, everyone knew, there lived a different breed of backward and uneducated people with lazy minds and even lazier language skills. You could have contempt for them, a privilege I indulged from time to time. I personally learned this contempt from two main sources.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No.
You are all Nazis now.
And they are making lists.
I've met plenty rubes from the south....AND north. I've met plentry of good people in deep blue areas AND deep red places. I know lots of jackwagons born here and freedom-loving people from abroad.
I like the sentiment in this article, but the truth of this election is we are all like people who've been disenfranchised over the years...the Deplorable of 2020 is as hated by the statists as blacks were by DemoKKKrats in years prior (and still are today if you catch them off-mic).,.aint that a kick in the head? Jack Kemp is vindicated.
I've heard from people with non-Deplorable mindsets who fear for the future of this nation given the brazen fraud. Yea.. the fraud is "unproven" but I don't need a guilty verdict in criminal court to know OJ killed his ex and the waiter.
Reminds me of an encounter I had on a flight back to Dallas some 5-7 years ago. I was sitting next to a man from CA, Alameda to be specific. Although it seemed like a friendly conversation, I could tell he didn't like Texas.
Just so happened that as we were heading into DFW, he noticed the many lakes surrounding the Metroplex, i.e. "I didn't know there was so much water here." I responded with, "in case you didn't know, there is only one natural lake in Texas, Caddo Lake. The rest of the lakes are all manmade."
I ended with, "Guess Texans are smarter than a lot of people give them credit for."
Did he just wake up? Much of SW Ohio (and SE Michigan, parts of Oregon, and S. Cali. ) is just 2 - 3 generations removed from the hills of KY. But his mother is typical of the people who would rather forget that inconvenient fact.
I have meet people in SW Ohio who graduated 9th grade but only after passing trig and Shakespeare. But they can also be a rowdy brawling bunch too.
Sweet tea and fried everything is du jour in SW Ohio.
Several years ago I was watching an interview/lecture by a southern college professor with a heavy southern accent. She was obviously quite intelligent and make good points, but I wondered if many would discount her ideas because of how she spoke, because the idea had certainly crossed my mind.
On the other hand a professor with a New England accent would likely be considered more authoritative by those who concentrated on the accent rather than the ideas.
As a Southerner.....while we laughed at the funny accents and pasty white Midwestern men in socks and sandals on Southern beaches, we always understood that culturally, Midwesterners were very similar to us and we never harbored any real ill will toward the Midwest. The non Left Coast West was heavily settled by Southerners especially in the wake of the war. With them went a Southern sense of honor, independence, self reliance, patriotism and willingness to back up all of the above with another Southern passion, guns.
We have never liked the Northeast. The two communities, Jamestown and Plymouth never liked each other even back in England and that has never changed. Probably the biggest mistake we ever made was agreeing to be in one country with them in the first place. Philosophically, we’ve been diametrically opposed from the start. The animosity can be found even in personal accounts from the colonial era.
PS. Welcome aboard Midwestern working class folks. We understand. We used to be Democrats too. The party left us too just like it has abandoned and betrayed you. They’ve shown endless contempt for us just like they are showing toward you now.
WOW! How true. I grew up in the south (deep south). I have seen what the author described my whole life. It is very blatant. Frankly, it has been with us since the founding. Most of the prominent founders were from the south (Jefferson, Madison, Washington, etc.) and they fought England to create this great and unique country (and thankfully, won).
And about 80 years later, there was another big fight (1861) over the same division (north/south). That fight had much of its genesis in the “woke” crowd of that era from the north.
Now, the south has expanded to flyover country as someone else commented.
It is hard to tell how this will end. Let’s hope it does not end like 1776 or 1861. But, who knows?
If anyone wants to see the whole story which goes all the way back to the roots of our mother country before this one was settled, you should read this book review of Albion’s Seed, or better yet, the book. http://bit.ly/2Ir3J3M
The battle still rages to this day as we so clearly see! More of the same (”nothing new under the sun”).
I have long argued that if the Confederate States of America had remained independent, they would eventually include the vast bulk of the country, leaving only the islands of blue states on the West coast and the North East.
Culturally, the "flyover states" align with the Southern attitudes and mindset.
I believe it. For some reason those Puritans just cause trouble every where they go.
“And they are making lists.”
They’re gonna be unhappily surprised when they get to my house.
Gun up. Gut up.
I've made this point many times. The 1850s version of Liberal nutjobs stirred up great strife and upheaval because Liberal nuts gotta meddle with things.
In the 60s all of the top shows on TV were on CBS and they had a southern twang. 'Petticoat Junction', 'The Andy Griffith Show', 'Gomer Pyle USMC', 'The Beverly Hillbillies', 'Green Acres', you get the point.
Apparently the wife of the top CBS executive (in New York, of course) was embarrassed by that and she pressed him to make the network more hip. This resulted in the 'Rural Purge' where all the top shows were cut and replaced by more city life stuff. 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'All in the Family', stuff like that.
Here's the difference between Fox News and CBS back in the day: Then, as now, an embarrassed wife might twist her husband into changing the entire format to aid in her social life but the CBS executives actually were able to provide new content that was new and had merit and CBS stayed on top. Fox News, on the other hand, is just turning itself into a clone of CNN. We already have a CNN to hate. They will lose the right and never gain the left.
Hope those parties are worth it.
I think the Rural Purge played a huge role in the deterioration of this country.
The yankee north east is now and always has been loyalist. They did not actually support the revolution and freedom from the king. Benedict Arnold was their man
American progressivism is actually loyalty to the UK. There is no original american thought. It is imported lock stock and barrel from the socialist UK
Let’s hope it DOES end like 1776 or 1861 otherwise you were be living under authoritarian Marxist rule. There is no other way out.
Just note that the same people who lose it over the fact that Trump is Trump are way more obnoxious. Most New Yorkers fall into this category.!
“Our colleague has often noted the elitism of Northerners toward Southerners. “
On FR i have read that people from the south have IQs of 20, marry our cousins, and sit around on our porches and play banjos. And these weren’t jokes. The ignorance and bias is sometimes unbelievable. I don’t even own a banjo.
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