if you woulda fought with cornstalks!
Why, the very idea of writin' off the South is causin' me to swoon from a case of the vapors!
If y'all wanna write off the South, how come so many of y'all carpetbaggin' Yankees wanna live here? Y'all need to think about that one!
Now, afore I get out a can of whupass and spray y'all, kindly follow me below the fold so we can discuss this for a bit.
Some mean ole Yankee wrote a diary wantin' to write us off, sayin' we're a bunch of gun totin' religious nuts who'll stab you in the back while we're smilin' at your face. Well of course we'll be smilin' at your face, and we'll say "bless your heart" while we're stabbin' you too. Manners are very important here in the South. That's why we don't appreciate y'all carpetbaggers stayin' here, you got no manners!
You Northeastern Yankees are the worst of all. You're the "bright bulbs" that keep sayin' you don't need us and keep losin' us and losin' elections. Why do you think those nasty ole Republicans want to keep us so bad? 'Cause they know they gotta get our votes to win general elections.
Y'all are really fallin' for it, buyin' into the Southern white male myth. We got you good on that one, haha! We want you to think that so you won't notice what the majority of men here are really like... educated, prosperous, well-travelled, intelligent, well-read, thoughtful and generally polite. Even in traffic they're generally polite.
We've had alot of problems to deal with here in the South... factories closin', carpetbaggers comin', lots of illegal aliens to compete with for jobs, and so forth. However, when the goin' gets tough, we Southerners get goin'! We have the Research Triangle here in North Carolina, NASA in Texas and Alabama, Cape Canaveral in Florida, many wonderful universities doin' lots of research and teachin' lots of younguns... we have a very diversified culture... the busiest airport in the world is in Atlanta... we must be doin' somethin' right!
We revere our nation, our troops, our families, and our crazy folk. Love 'em one and all.
So, Yankees who wanna write off the South... just you go ahead and try. The Republicans might even have learned enough manners by now to thank you for it in the next general election.