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I'll be horribly blunt and ask you what southerners have to be proud of their "heritage". The South was relatively loyalist friendly. It fiercely supported slavery. It fiercely supported segregation, the KKK, lynch mobs and opposed women's suffrage. Now, it still has higher rates of hate crimes, and is rampant with fundamentalists, homophobes and rednecks whose daughters get knocked up, specifically in Texas, at the highest rate in the nation, despite being controlled by puritan asshats with obsessive abstinence rituals.
So here, we have another bash the south thread.
....Do you know how many folks opposed the women's suffrage
movement. Start with President Wilson and work your way down from there.
Russian women were allowed to vote before we were.
If you are trying to refer to southern heritage, TX is not it. TX is Southwestern Heritage
through and through.
But getting back to the south, the land I do love
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance - Jefferson Davis
I see; you think music is compensation for slavery and racism?
Because that's what you're doing every time you show "pride" in your "southern heritage" - you're implying that you may not be racist or sexist, but you sure as hell don't care as much about minorities as you do about your food and flag.
Do they not know that the war has been over since 1865 and that they lost? Do they realize what that ridiculous, uncreative flag (must of took a genius to come up with the idea of putting an X on it) stands for? Do they no longer want to be part of the United States? It is very anti-American to support the views this flag represents.
It is a far more prevalent trait in rural parts of the South. Not coincidentally, rural portions lag far behind urban counterparts in their rates of education, while also amassing far higher levels of high school dropouts, and abysmal economies.
When a region doesn't have a future, it clings to its past, even though as you correctly state, it is a past filled with a massive defeat.
Very good,you just showed exactly what I meant when I said you had no idea what I meant by it. You think I don't listen to rap,or wouldn't help a black person? I am sure that's what you think...but hey you enjoy being wrong kid.
....Do you know how many folks opposed the women's suffrage
movement. Start with President Wilson and work your way down from there.
Russian women were allowed to vote before we were.
If you are trying to refer to southern heritage, TX is not it. TX is Southwestern Heritage
through and through.
But getting back to the south, the land I do love
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance - Jefferson Davis
Texas was a part of the Confederacy. It has many areas with deep, purely southern roots. Your "southwestern heritage through and through" bleep is poorly misinformed tripe. And the southern man should be just as ashamed and as anyone else who supported the institution of slavery. Should one move on and not live in the past? Most definitely. Should one romanticize this morally inept past and revise it to fit one's said romanticizing? A resounding, no!
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