[wideawake]

It will never end.

Very few Yankees, even self-styled conservatives, fail to appreciate the balancing effect that the South and West have had on the Northeast and the Midwest.

These are the same people who bitch and moan about the socialist governments of Massachusetts and New York, the excessive taxes in the US in general and loss of a sense of freedom and self-reliance among the "sheeple" - yet they imagine that without the South there would be any freedom left in America.

Without the South America would be in the same spot England is in now.

God bless the Confederates.

[Cogadh na Sith]

yet they imagine that without the South there would be any freedom left in America.

Without the South America would be in the same spot England is in now.

God bless the Confederates.

Oh, please.... It's the collective guilt over the iniquities of the south that is constantly used to dudgeon the rest of us with.

During the Civ War, my Scottish Great, Great Grandaddy was a buffalo hunter on the plains and lived with the indians. Great-great grandma was an indian.

If your ancestors hadn't tried to maintain an agrarian feudal social heirarchy well after the industrial revolution, Grand Ave here wouldn't be MLK Blvd; There would be no Jesse Jackson, no such thing as 'white guilt', lower taxes, and a helluva lot less racial problems.

[wardaddy]

I think that unfortunately many of the folks you described get a cheap dose of self virtue empowerment from their constant harping. I lived in Manhattan for 6 years and know full well that all NYers don't think that way but nevertheless as a Mississippian I was always on the defensive more often than not at social gatherings.....and I was more "moderate" then...lol

I do miss Mississippi Day in Central Park behind the MET....with Southern flags aplenty flying....and no one said squat. My my how sensitive we've become!