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Educational achievement in the South is indeed..IMPRESSIVE! Highest rates of teenage pregnancy are in LA, MS and AR. MS is the state with highest percentage of obesity in the nation, with almost 44% of children in MS being obese.
Quit bashing the South
The South ( MS - LA) has the best food I have ever tasted .
Educational achievement in the South is indeed..IMPRESSIVE! Highest rates of teenage pregnancy are in LA, MS and AR. MS is the state with highest percentage of obesity in the nation, with almost 44% of children in MS being obese.
Funny how you ignored Nevada and Arizona. A little dishonesty going on here?
In your post above you tell me that the Northern liberal way of doing things is more desirable and that you come down here to be apart of the enclaves in the South where a lot of transplants have relocated and left their liberal influence. Once again you are losing your own argument. Why do you think it is better to live in a state that is 25% Northern liberal transplant when you could otherwise live in a state like New York that is 80% the real deal?
You still aren't answering my question. I am really getting irritated with this hatred that is shown towards the South, when none of you seem to be able to answer my question directly with legitimate explanations for your hypocritical hateful arguments.
It makes me think that there is something else you don't want to admit to. Like perhaps, you like it better down here because there are more jobs and lower taxes. The socialist welfare states you have created in the great and mighty North obviously aren't working out too well, huh?
Let me also say this.....as I have said before, most of the world is very intolerant and racist. This is human nature. You talk about how you wish to colonize the South and change us. Well why don't you want to colonize the Middle East? Why don't you want to go and inforce your liberal viewpoints on the racist Japanese? What about the racism that exists in Latin America?
Racism exists everywhere. It is hateful for you to suggest you want to invade the South so you can change us. Well guess what, there are more of us down here than you, and you aren't changing us without a fight.
White people everywhere are getting fed up with this perverse, destructive liberalism that white liberals in Europe and in North America are trying to enforce on their respective populations. In Europe, the far right, anti-immigrant parties keep gaining more and more votes each election. The European leadership may appear liberal, but most of the European people have had enough of this diversity and multi-culturalism that is getting enforced on them through massive Third World immigration.
The same reaction is occuring in America. White people everywhere are starting to awake to what it is liberals are trying to do to this country. You see this with the Tea Parties going on everywhere. You saw this with the recent state elections that have gone on (sorry, but Virginia still appears to be a red state). You are seeing more and more anger being shown all over the internet. We have had enough.
Please tell me what it is that liberalsim wants to achieve that is so much better for the Southern U.S. and the rest of the Western world? Do you want your nice little lily white , cobble-stoned, artsy, coffee shop on every corner, towns to be recreated in the South? I have gone up North, and I agree that these types of areas are nice. But all of these ultra liberal artsy quaint towns just happen to always be 100% white for some odd reason.
So tell me what it is you want. Do you want to stay in your sheltered white communities while you enforce diversity on white Southerners who live in states that are 30 to 40 percent nonwhite? Would you like to examine (from a distance of course) what liberalism has done to parts of New York City and all of Detroit? These cities resemble the Third World more than anything else. Your liberal tolerant multicultural utopias that you invision always seem to work at the detriment of other white people around the country who don't make as much money and who are forced to live in areas that have high minority populations. Is it any surprise to you that we tend to be a bit more conservative or in other words , realistic, about our racial viewpoints?
No offense, gr99a05, but you actually are the reason why the South gets so much grief. Racism. Unless you moderate your opinion, you will be passed up even in the South. You must know that your way of thinking is considered ignorant and dangerous. America will never allow the kind of behavior that some white Southerners cling to & the change is certainly evident when all the large Southerner cities voted for a Black president & states that use to be solid Republican are now Democratic.
You will continue to experience frustration by what you espouse & will find yourself more and more isolated from moral Americans.
The Yankees are always babbling about their superior education but look at their rustbelt cities full of closed down factories with graffiti and barb wire fence. You'd think with all that superior education they would have figured out how to compete with a bunch of uneducated Chinese with a rickshaw for transportation. LOL....America has to get it's goods from China because Yankees can't do it right.
One thing those awesome Northern colleges neglected to teach y'all is how to be self-sufficient instead of your Northern corporations relying on handouts to keep your GM's, Chryslers, AIG's afloat. Your a disgrace to America, they ought to chop the North off and give it to Canada.
Always babbling and whining about the South's slavery and segregration, but the Yankees transplant South into their deed restricted, gated communities that are 98% white.
The Yankees are always babbling about their superior education but look at their rustbelt cities full of closed down factories with graffiti and barb wire fence. You'd think with all that superior education they would have figured out how to compete with a bunch of uneducated Chinese with a rickshaw for transportation. LOL....America has to get it's goods from China because Yankees can't do it right.
One thing those awesome Northern colleges neglected to teach y'all is how to be self-sufficient instead of your Northern corporations relying on handouts to keep your GM's, Chryslers, AIG's afloat. Your a disgrace to America, they ought to chop the North off and give it to Canada.
Always babbling and whining about the South's slavery and segregration, but the Yankees transplant South into their deed restricted, gated communities that are 98% white.
You illustrate that racism isn't just a "Southern" sickness.
....every other thread on this website has something to do with Northerners wanting to move South?
If you don't like us, then why are you moving down here? How long do you plan to stay? What percentage of you have left to come down here already?
We're not all cut from the same cloth up here. Had I been born in the South, I would have fit right in. I love the nation, real people and principles America was founded upon. I tend to keep my nose out of other people's business and like others to do the same. I don't like country music, but I respect the values expressed in it. I won't be too surprised if I find myself living in the South at some point in the future.
You damn educated, self righteous, Zinfandel sipping Californians and Yankees with your "South is racist" claims wouldn't last five minutes in a predominately black neighborhood in the South, they'd kick your ass.
As for myself, a Southern rural-living white male.......I'd be partying, drinkin beer ,playing cards, shooting ball with em within the same 5 minutes. I know because I've done it before, many times.
You damn educated, self righteous, Zinfandel sipping Californians and Yankees with your "South is racist" claims wouldn't last five minutes in a predominately black neighborhood in the South, they'd kick your ass.
As for myself, a Southern rural-living white male.......I'd be partying, drinkin beer ,playing cards, shooting ball with em within the same 5 minutes. I know because I've done it before, many times.
Well I am a Latino male who has lived in barrios no different than "predominately black neighborhood in the South." The trouble with you guys is that you can't recognize what you are [i.e. old people] who can't accept what is right because insecurity has a vice-like grip on you.
Personally i have visited every southern state and have experienced nothing but friendly folks and welcomeness.
I've lived in the south my entire life. There are some very wonderful southern people here. But on average, when I encounter someone who is especially friendly and helpful, they usually have a northern accent. Not always, and occasionally the opposite is true. But more often than not, the northerners I meet are the friendlier of the bunch. We had a regular customer at work who was from Chicago and he was easily the kindest, friendliest customer we had at the time. But all of my southern coworkers hated him, and would say the worst things imaginable about him behind his back, just because he wasn't from here. What a great bunch!
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Originally Posted by padcrasher
In a nutshell the South is easy pickings for those who wish to live a wealthy lifestyle on the backs of a culture that refuses to stand up for their family's well being.
Heck, we southerners even fought a war once in hopes of keeping ourselves impoverished by the slave-owning aristocracy.
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Originally Posted by californio sur
Half the problem is that Southerners are so thin-skinned and defensive.
There are some surprisingly thin-skinned people here, often getting upset about the fact that some minority somewhere is upset about inequality.
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Originally Posted by gr99a05
Whether you like it or not, any area of the country that has large numbers of blacks and hispanics ranks pretty low in a lot of areas.
I am ready to challenge you on this. You won't be able to find me any majority black or hispanic part of the country that has low violence, good schools etc....
Any ideas why it's like that?
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Originally Posted by Angus Podgorny
Frankly I wouldn't live there because of the lousy climate...
That's my biggest reason for wanting to leave. Summer here is the spawn of Satan.
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Originally Posted by Angus Podgorny
...their unique view of history...
That's putting it kindly.
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Originally Posted by Angus Podgorny
...and the fact that they seem to have just a general dislike of folks with 'book larnin'...
That's another reason I want to leave. Not long ago I was interested in buying a telescope, but I decided to search for a used one so I wouldn't be out as much money if I wound up not using it much. Try asking your southern coworkers if they have a telescope they want to sell. Literally every single person I asked said something similar to, "Why? You got a hot neighbor you want to look at?! Hahahahahah!!!!" It was funny the first time I heard it, but when everyone said that I started to wonder. Either they all keep their minds permanently lodged in the gutter, or they can't possible imagine someone might actually want to use a telescope for its intended purpose and gain a little knowledge.
Umm, just because someone doesn't have a southern accent doesn't mean they aren't from the south. I lost my Cajun accent after 8 years in the Navy. I've had many people ask me where I'm from originally and they're shocked when I tell them I'm from the same town they're from.
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Originally Posted by Lamplight
I've lived in the south my entire life. There are some very wonderful southern people here. But on average, when I encounter someone who is especially friendly and helpful, they usually have a northern accent. Not always, and occasionally the opposite is true. But more often than not, the northerners I meet are the friendlier of the bunch. We had a regular customer at work who was from Chicago and he was easily the kindest, friendliest customer we had at the time. But all of my southern coworkers hated him, and would say the worst things imaginable about him behind his back, just because he wasn't from here. What a great bunch!
Heck, we southerners even fought a war once in hopes of keeping ourselves impoverished by the slave-owning aristocracy.
There are some surprisingly thin-skinned people here, often getting upset about the fact that some minority somewhere is upset about inequality.
Any ideas why it's like that?
That's my biggest reason for wanting to leave. Summer here is the spawn of Satan.
That's putting it kindly.
That's another reason I want to leave. Not long ago I was interested in buying a telescope, but I decided to search for a used one so I wouldn't be out as much money if I wound up not using it much. Try asking your southern coworkers if they have a telescope they want to sell. Literally every single person I asked said something similar to, "Why? You got a hot neighbor you want to look at?! Hahahahahah!!!!" It was funny the first time I heard it, but when everyone said that I started to wonder. Either they all keep their minds permanently lodged in the gutter, or they can't possible imagine someone might actually want to use a telescope for its intended purpose and gain a little knowledge.
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