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Are you suggesting Southerners shouldn't be offended? The hypocrisy on this board is off the charts. Non-Southerners come with highly prejudiced, non-tolerant and highly uneducated offensive claims against Southerners and then have the nerve to lecture Southerners on hate and prejudice. The hypocrisy is laughable to the point of absurdity. You have uneducated comments like those of turd's recent post where he claimed Mississippi and Alabama were the bottom two states in education spending when they are #39 and #35 respectively. In fact, Alabama has finished ahead of California and Michigan recently in public education in the last two years. I'll dig up the ranking if you don't believe me because I saw it with my own two eyes. It suprised me in light of the ridiculous rhetoric we've grown accustomed to on boards like this one.
The racism angle is hilarious coming from people in areas that are lily white to the extreme. I even saw someone on here recently lamenting the lack of diversity in South Louisiana/New Orleans and not being able to wait to move to the hotbed of diversity that is Oregon. I about fell at of my chair laughing at the cluelessness of that statement.
Are you suggesting Southerners shouldn't be offended? The hypocrisy on this board is off the charts. Non-Southerners come with highly prejudiced, non-tolerant and highly uneducated offensive claims against Southerners and then have the nerve to lecture Southerners on hate and prejudice. The hypocrisy is laughable to the point of absurdity. You have uneducated comments like those of turd's recent post where he claimed Mississippi and Alabama were the bottom two states in education spending when they are #39 and #35 respectively. In fact, Alabama has finished ahead of California and Michigan recently in public education in the last two years. I'll dig up the ranking if you don't believe me because I saw it with my own two eyes. It suprised me in light of the ridiculous rhetoric we've grown accustomed to on boards like this one.
The racism angle is hilarious coming from people in areas that are lily white to the extreme. I even saw someone on here recently lamenting the lack of diversity in South Louisiana/New Orleans and not being able to wait to move to the hotbed of diversity that is Oregon. I about fell at of my chair laughing at the cluelessness of that statement.
yeah I got a laugh at this as well.
Especially since many of those living in my area are mixed race, and a lot of white families have black in them as well. Its so easy to claim to be racially tolerant when only a handful of a particular race live where you are. Its much different to live in an area with 30,40, even 50% black or another race. It presents challenges and requires a LOT more race tolerance than people give us credit for. I remember someone talking about the unusually high amount of trailers and mobile homes found in my area. that is because a lot of people work offshore or for weeks at a time and are not home as much, so they do not place a high value on home ownership. Living in a trailer here isnt seen as some sort of class deficiency, its seen as a realistic option for a hard working blue collar family who want to live affordably. Youll find trailers placed right into neighborhoods, next to elaborate brick homes. Youll find tiny shotgun houses right in the middle of town. ITs just how it is around here. Everybody kind of exists together, black or white, rich or poor. We all party together. Thats why I like it here.
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Are you suggesting Southerners shouldn't be offended? The hypocrisy on this board is off the charts. Non-Southerners come with highly prejudiced, non-tolerant and highly uneducated offensive claims against Southerners and then have the nerve to lecture Southerners on hate and prejudice. The hypocrisy is laughable to the point of absurdity. You have uneducated comments like those of turd's recent post where he claimed Mississippi and Alabama were the bottom two states in education spending when they are #39 and #35 respectively. In fact, Alabama has finished ahead of California and Michigan recently in public education in the last two years. I'll dig up the ranking if you don't believe me because I saw it with my own two eyes. It suprised me in light of the ridiculous rhetoric we've grown accustomed to on boards like this one.
Are you talking to me? Because if you are you obviously don't follow my posts very closely.
I don't use any of the above. As I have said, if your region were to fall into the ocean, America wouldn't lose a step.
The fact that the North forced the South to regain admission into the Union at the end of Reconstruction puts the lie to your statement, because if what you say were true, they wouldn't have bothered. (I take this illogic as a sign of your less-than-adquate Yankee education, or perhaps lack of brains; or maybe it's just mean-spirited prejudice.)
These idiots are just trolls and a lot of folks are feeding into their BS, myself included. What is that saying, "don't feed the trolls..."? It is a patently ridiculous subject. They south is the south and is no more or no less racist, backward, or uneducated than those trolls that are posting their drivel here. All you have to do is look at Michigan and fall down laughing at this tripe.
I tend to think, for northerners, southerners historically have been viewed less sophisticated as their northern brethren in the large cities. Of course that's a complete fallacy but it existed nonetheless and that perception has been passed down from generation to generation through "stories" and even through entertainment outlets that depict southerns in that type of light. On average the pace of a major southern city is about the same pace as a northern city outside of NYC and Chicago. Rural areas in both halves of the country are all about the same pace, slower, where people take time out to actually enjoy things instead of constantly being on the go.
As far as slavery, it wasn't about slavery in the south, that in all actuality wasn't even a factor as congress would have never had the votes to abolish slavery if it weren't for the Civil War. It was slavery in new territories that finally came to a head with the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 and pro-slavery advocates crossing the border from Missouri into Kansas casting fake votes in favor of slavery. You can find the finding on the Making of America, it was housed on the U of Michigan's Web site, not sure if it's still housed there or not, maybe a UM grad can elaborate on that. In the end, the north fired on Fort Sumpter and the Civil War started.
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