[wardaddy]

THe south truly has changed greatly. That's why it's so fallacious to assume it was not once a barbaric impoverished hell-hole, which it was. More's the achievement today.

Oh really....so we used to suck real bad but now we've improved so much and isn't that great!!!

Your kind of compliments that denigrate and applaud condescendingly at the same time are the kind we've learned to ignore thankfully.

Thanks for educating we impoverished barbaric hell-hole dwellers on our "improvements".

It's fallacious of you to assume we don't know when we're being defamed even if it's hidden in the guise of a back handed compliment.

Can't bring up the South on FR without some do-gooder self righteous paternalistic cretin removing his or her head out of their arse to say something demeaning so they can feel better about themselves in their all knowing glow of self virtue.

[Malcolm]

The majority of people in Metro Atlanta originate from out-of-state. I don't have any problems with Yankees here; they are for the most part polite and respectful. It's the ones that have never been here that hold those biased view and attitudes about the South. If my only exposure to the South was via TV and movies, (Beverly Hillbillies, Gone With The Wind, The Dukes of Hazard, etc), I might hold those views myself. But anyone who thinks Hollywood has pigeonholed the South has not been down here. I can't speak for rural areas, as I have always lived near Atlanta, but most of the Southerners that I know are educated, speak with little or no accent, and are as cultured as anyone else. Maybe you could have made this argument 100 years ago, when Southern education was laughably substandard. But we're talking about 2002, not 1880. Any non-Southerner who does not take all the info about the present-day South into account is just as brainless as any Southern stereotype he has in mind. But I really don't worry about such attitudes. Like I said, if they really think this way, it is them, not us, who are ignorant, and that to the Nth degree.....

[DonkeyHodee]

You can't defame a sow's ear for being what it was before someone else finally made a passable silk purse out of it.

[sweetliberty]

"Can't bring up the South on FR without some do-gooder self righteous paternalistic cretin removing his or her head out of their arse to say something demeaning so they can feel better about themselves in their all knowing glow of self virtue."

This should be the quote of the Day! LOL!