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.
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Speaking of CNN and Fox, one of the chants at today’s march was, “Fox News sucks! Fox News sucks!”
My father once told me about his experiences with people from the North. He and his brother had a gas station in a part of what is now Cartersville GA. In the early 1930s there wasn’t much out of town traffic on the new 41 hiway, and a car from out of state was not very common. Back then some parts of the long road from up North were still rather undeveloped. My dad and his brother were leaning back in chairs against the front of the station, when a new car with Ohio plates pulled in. The pretty lady driver had the top down enjoying the warm day. My uncle got up and went over to the lady and asked what he could do for her. She needed some gas and then softly asked him a question. He didn’t understand the question, so he leaned into the car and asked her to repeat it. She asked him again, just a little slower and louder. My uncle was not used to hearing much of the Northern dialect, and interpreted her question as, “ did he have a whisk broom? “ He assumed she wanted to dust out the interior of the car. When he said, “no maam I dont, but if you will drive around the side of the building, I can take the Air hose and blow it out for you.” She got a shocked look on her face and drove away quickly.
After about an hour of discussion my dad and uncle decided she might have been asking about a Rest Room.
I had heard about the purge at CBS.
Meh. Much of the South isn’t “Southern” anymore. Look at the election results.
Nobody is impressed or convinced. You had months to learn a language or learn how to play a musical instrument, or at least learn a little history or economics, but instead you keep coming back with the same nonsense.
For a century or more after the Civil War, the Middlewestern states had more in common with the rest of the North than with the Southern states and had no wish to inherit the problems of the Southern states.
In S.E. Michigan - a town there isn’t called Taylortucky by accident...
“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.”
The woman I married has an IQ of 150, graduated from Vanderbilt and just like her mother is a progressive and identifies with the NPR coastal elites, although her family is from ancient Southern stock. Try living with that.
Southern voting power is being diluted by carpetbaggers.
Lenny Bruce once said he couldn't picture a rocket scientist with a southern accent.
“Every culture has its southerners — people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives — envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibited, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn’t let ourselves go, mustn’t descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it — then you know. The south has got you.” - Susan Sontag
I don’t think you are amenable to reason, so I see no point in attempting to dissuade you from the things you wish to believe.
My Grandad always said “Everything north of Birmingham is The North”.
RLTW.
That is patently false. Yankees were storing weapons and drilling and fighting before anyone else. Massachusetts and New Hampshire and Connecticut men were fighting while the southern colonies hemmed and hawed. With the exception of New York City and its environs, the northeast was the most fervently revolutionary region of the colonies. The southern coast and significant southern inland regions remained hotbeds of loyalist sentiment. The Revolutionary War was far less clearcut than many today perceive it to be, but to suggest that the northeast was more loyalist than the south is simply not in line with reality.
Can that be backed up with hard data? It’s easier to blame Yankees some more than it is to accept that southern people might simply be getting more liberal, but I’ve never seen proof that outsiders are turning southern states, rather than native residents.
Welcome to my world
Won’t you come on in
Miracles I guess
Still happen now and then
But after that, the Northeast was constantly wanting to rejoin England. I think their egos couldn't take the fact that the Virginians took over control of the government for so long.
Look up the "Hartford Convention". They were planning to secede and rejoin England.
Because of past and ongoing colonization by the Northeast after the invention air-conditioning.
And WE are making ours. And practicing.
Have you ever heard of Sam Adams, John Adams or Paul Reever?
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