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Or extend your vacation to visit a few other regions, find their local morons, and add them to your list.
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by pat208 on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 02:42:37 PM PDT
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there are morons everywhere, but there is a special culture of it in the South. I'm Southern too, and I really tire of my "brethren" trying to pretend there's no difference between the South and anywhere else. There is, but people from elsewhere should realize there are still plenty of intelligent, aware, and progressive people even in the worst areas.
Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -6.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67
by bythesea on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 02:46:59 PM PDT
As an African-American from the South, (not that we're ever allowed to consider ourselves Southernors, mind you) I know that there's bigotry everywhere. Still, the South has its own special brand. And the North, and Midwest have their own brands as well.
And I bet you, anyone, no matter what their background and whatever type of discrimination they might be subjected to, from white straight protestant men to arab gays, can tell you that while discrimination is not confined to one region, different regions manifest it diffrently.
And the south has it's own, rather infamous brand, of bigotry that even the most racist 'working class Bostonians' haven't been able to emmulate.
Case in point Mississippi. Despite the MSM orgiastic frenzy to prentend it represent 'Mainstreme America' or the racial aspects of this race, I'm sure...when the counting is done, it will have proved to have been the most racially polarized primary this year.
by kingfishstew on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 02:54:07 PM PDT
The statistics speak for themselves. White people in the south are MUCH more prone than white people in other regions to be stupid enough to vote Republican, for all kinds of ignorant bigoted reasons. That goes just as well for affluent white southerners as it does for poor ones, although in the case of the affluent ones, it is less stupid: they are PROUD to be protecting their privilege. As for the poor ones, well, white poverty is simply much more COMMON in southern states than it is in Maine or Montana. Well, maybe not Maine so much, but that is an outlier. Oddly, (I don't know about adults), poverty among white children is highest NEITHER North nor South but in that swath of border states where Hillary won so handily: WV, KY, TN, AR, OK. All of these places were slaveholding in 1861, even though only AR and TN actually joined the confederacy. After that we have MS and LA. Of the top 9 states for white child poverty, the only two that are not in the south are Maine and Indiana. But Maine went overwhelmingly for Obama, while the most poor-white states went overwhelmingly for Hillary and went Republican in 2000 and 2004. MS and LA went for Obama because THERE, the white people are oppressing black people so much harder that they're actually doing better, and they're registered Republican, so they couldn't vote in our primary.
Seriously, though, if Hillary's primary success in the states with the highest levels of white child-poverty would translate into getting those people to actually vote Democratic in November, maybe she IS more electable. But it's not going to happen: white people in those places REALLY ARE STUPIDER than white people in other places.
Obama is going to do better in MS than anybody has in a long time, but carry it? I'll believe it when I see it.
"You can't nice these people to death."-- John Edwards
by ge0rge on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 03:26:49 PM PDT
that significant numbers of those ignorant people that vote republican in the south weren't born in the south don't you?
by jfromga on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 08:10:40 PM PDT
wide narrow
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