The south has a uniqueness that you can find anywhere in any American small town be it Tonnawando New York or Abilene, Kansas. We are taught from birth to be polite and respectful of other peoples opinions. We are also taught that you must defend your family, your state, your country and your heritage.
I have seen yankees pay five dollars for a boll of cotton in a plastic bag at the slave market in Charleston and seen friends shucked and jived out of twenty dollars by three card monty on a New York street corner.
Lewis, a great American, Grizzard poked fun at these stereotypes in a warm and gentle manner. I hope that I could do the same. The South you remember is still out there sleeping. You can get pork pig sandwiches and a cold beer and go looking for it. It may surprise you at being right around the next bend in the road.
Damn right we are proud of our southern heritage but even one of my heroes, Theodore Roosevelt, who was a New England Yankee had a southern mother. He was the first man to have a black man dine in the Whitehouse, Booker T Washington and was criticised sharply By Pitchfork Ben Tillman and other regional politicians.
We are Humans first, Americans second, and Southerners third. It is in our manners, our way of dress, and our speech you cannot and should not try to make us conform but should help each other celebrate our similarity and diversity.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
People, from all over the country, are taught to be polite, civil, and to have good manners ! This is NOT specific to only people born south of the Mason Dixon line. It is also NOT evident, at all, from the "SOUTHERN THREADS ", on FR, that Southerners have any manners at all.
Teddy Roosevelt, was NOT a " New Englander "; BTW. He was a New Yorker, and the last time I looked, New York was NOT a part of the New England states; which are Maine, N.H., Vt., Mass., Conn., and R.I. ! His boyhood home,is in Manhattan, just off Gramarcy Park, on East 20th Street. His adult, summer home, Sagamore Hill, is on Long Island; which is also part of New York State ! I have been to both of these homes ; have YOU ? I actually loved very near his boyhood brownstone, and came upon i quite by accident, while out for a walk with my husband, many years ago. It has a loveyly plaque on the front of the house, proclaiming it to be a National Landmark.
Before becoming president, he was the President of New York City Board of Police Commissioners , a member of the N.Y. State Assembly, Govenor of N.Y. , and Vice President if the USA.
He is buried in Young's Memorial Cemitary, in Oyster Bay , Long Island, N.Y. ! If his first wife was from the South, she didn't live long enough to have that much influence on him , as she died , the same day his mother did; which devistated him. His second wife, was one of his childhood playmates ; another New Yorker.
Teddy was my grandfather's favorite president , so besides what I learned about him in school, I also got to hear a first hand account about him, at home.
FR is no place to make incorrect statements. Someone is ALWAYS going to point out your error to you, and I was absolutely THE wrong person for you to post what you did, to . LOL
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