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I've lived in the south my whole life and have also never heard that phrase.
Birthers live in a world full of delusions.
I, too, have lived in the SOuth, and that expression was not used except in cartoons. But calling someone "boy" certainly was used often, always in a derogatory, racist manner.
I've lived in the south my whole life and have also never heard that phrase.
Birthers live in a world full of delusions.
I hear it all the time when I head to the south to visit family and hunt. In fact I've heard it all my life when I have visited around the agriculture communities that harvest cotton and soy bean. Some of my family were sharecroppers back in the day. I hear it in the restaurants and everywhere where there are gatherings. Maybe not in the big cities in the south but in the rural areas, yes. Believe me, it is said quite often.
I hear it all the time when I head to the south to visit family and hunt. In fact I've heard it all my life when I have visited around the agriculture communities that harvest cotton and soy bean. Some of my family were sharecroppers back in the day. I hear it in the restaurants and everywhere where there are gatherings. Maybe not in the big cities in the south but in the rural areas, yes. Believe me, it is said quite often.
You know what Steve, I don't agree with most of your posts but I was born in Mississippi and saw racism first hand. I do believe that "cotton pickin" is used quite often in the rural areas still. It's just the way there.
Why would they be, especially at restaurants like this one:
thecottonpickininn.com
Come join us at the Cotton Pickin' Inn for some hearty, southern, home-cooked meals! Here at the restaurant, we specialize in country-style and Italian cuisine, our specialty being meat and potato pasties, mmm. One day a week, we want to hear the music you can make! Stop in for open mic night and live pickin'. Join us every, or any Friday and Saturday for dinner and live bluegrass music in the Pickin Hall.
Or this one at the Cotton Pickin Chicken restaurant:
Or have a good ole cotton pickin time in Arkansas at the 35th Annual Delta Cotton Pickin’ Jubilee 35th Annual Delta Cotton Pickin
Nope, no protests at any of those places for having that name included. You see, the term is used to this day and it is used in daily language in the south. That's a fact. Historiondude, you and others need to brush up on your southern facts and culture.
You know what Steve, I don't agree with most of your posts but I was born in Mississippi and saw racism first hand. I do believe that "cotton pickin" is used quite often in the rural areas still. It's just the way there.
I know but I fly to Mississippi alot to hunt there around Greenville and down to Alabama around Gulf Shores to trout fish where Cotton is all over the place around the Foley area north of there. I hear the term used all the time but it isn't considered racist by no means. I mean people say it without realizing it. It's natural to them. Go into the feed stores around the rural areas and you will hear it. To say it isn't said because you didn't hear it when you visited there at one time or another like Historiandude says doesn't mean it's not being said.
I, too, have lived in the SOuth, and that expression was not used except in cartoons. But calling someone "boy" certainly was used often, always in a derogatory, racist manner.
Rubbish. You don't know what the hell your talking about.
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