Why Elitists Dump on the South

NEWSMAX ^ | 4/19/02

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[stainlessbanner]

Does anyone have the article that discusses famous Southerners? It was posted on FR about a year ago and may have been from Lew Rockwell. The article contained prominent Southerners and their contributions over the years including BB King, Lee, Jackson, Gen Clay and many others.

It was a good article - please post if you have it. (Yes, I did search LewRockwell's archives and I couldn't find it).

Thanks! Carry on.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"These places had their differences," he told United Press International in a phone interview, "but one of the things I could count on was a common conception of the South, largely among people who had never been there but who had very consistent ideas about what the South meant and what it stood for. This was the standard list of negative characteristics and stereotypes."

Do you mean to say that these icons of progressive thought were/are PREJUDICED!!? I am SHOCKED! Shocked I tell you!

[junta]

Roll Tide Roll!

[timm22]

Ironic isn't it but the stronghold of left wing anti American types is in the Northeast, Yankee land

That may be true now. But I think we Southerners and Texans should always remember that the Northeast was the birthplace of the American Revolution.

[wardaddy]

that didn't take long....

[wardaddy]

geez DAN...do you have to play so.....rough?

[wardaddy]

he was a social lib....personally and otherwise.

[wardaddy]

Kennedy was a non serious president facing very serious times. He did ok but Nikita played him a bit for a boy wonder...not to mention the Bay of Pigs...

Had he not died the way he did, he'd just be a footnote.

[wardaddy]

You could left Woodrow off that list homeboy.

[wardaddy]

That's because most Yankees outside of urban areas or from middle class and up have not had the experience living with blacks that Southerners have....particularly Deep South folk.

[wardaddy]

NYC folks are just more pushy and demanding...it's a cultural and ethnic thing....not bad per se. Southerners and a lot of Mid Western and Rocky MT folk are just not used to it.

[wardaddy]

LOL

[wardaddy]

You made yer point in the previous point...no need to be mean.

[nutmeg]

bump

[wardaddy]

I think I would include Virginia in there with Mass and NY.

[nopardons]

Thanks, for the help ; though New Yorkers are really " pushy " .

What most here forget, is that MOST New Yorkers are transplants ; not natives. The rudest people, are the newcommers. Real, born and bred new Yorkers are friendly, helpful, and won't give you wrong directions. You'll get misdirection and rudeness from those who are trying to live up to wht they assume will make them appear REAL to the tourists.

The regionalists, on FR, who complaim that peopele " make fun " of Southerners ( when NO ONE here does ! ) , are THE primier trashers / bashers of all others; especially New Yorkers ! The steritoypical slams , incorrect information, and slurs, are all delusional and patently ridiculous !

The most segragated and biggotted city I ever lived in, was Chicago; bar none !

I NEVER , the entire time I was growing up in the Northeast, heard anyone put down the South . Where you people get that, is beyond me . I played with and went to school with negros ( they weren't called " blacks " back then ) and no one, NOT A SINGLE SOUL , was predjudiced against the other.

If it weren't for N.Y.C., there would be NO musical theatre; not anywhere . There also wouldn't have been singable / dancable music, for most of the late 19th - 20th century, without " TINPAN ALLEY ", in New York !

These silly threads only serve to Balkanize ; they are of absolutely NO help at all . There are MANY nonSouthern FREEPERS, and by continually denigrating them, you do a disservice to Conservatism and FR ! You also make nonSouthern hating " others " begin to have a rational dislike for Southerners.

[nopardons]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG !

I left out the NOT ! New Yorkers are NOT " pushy " ! Just what is " pushy " , anyway ? That they have to suffer through tons of gawping toursts, staring up at the buildings, and halting traffic , so they walk around them grumbling ? That they don't accept shoddy products, bad service, stalled traffic, or failure without complaint ?

[WhiskeyPapa]

Had he not died the way he did, he'd just be a footnote.

Hard to say. He planned to rein in the CIA and forcibly retire J. Edgar Hoover. Viet Nam would have been substanially different, and we would have reached the moon either during or right after his administration. He was trying.

Walt