I'm a Northerner. Born and raised in Chicago, I spent five years in Minnesota and have been a Los Angeles resident for over six years now. I'll admit I know very little about the South. Rather, I know everything you can know without actually having been there.
Sure, I've driven through the south on my way to and from Disney World in Florida (or is it Disneyland?). And every so often I get a wrong number call me from somewhere in Georgia.
I know the South has its quirks. A relative of mine who spent some time in Alabama told me about her neighbors cursing at her and calling her Satan just because she put up some Halloween decorations. I know a woman who actually had stones thrown at her because her skirt was so short. And during one of my voyages to Disney I stopped at a gas station in Tennessee and an old man, seeing my Illinois license plates, made it a point to ask my mother and I how many babies we had killed this week. Yeah, because that made any sense.
And today I find this little nugget of information:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
Thinking it was a joke (it had to be a joke) I did some looking for other sources and sure enough, right from the horse's mouth:
http://www.clarionledger.com/...
Sex toys. You know, dildos. Vibrators. Anal beads. The infamous "butterfly". Cock rings. Butt plugs. So and so forth. Nevermind that anybody (and by anybody I mean a raving psychotic with a rap-sheet a mile long and a T-shirt that says "I'm crazy and I'm going to kill you") can buy a GUN in Mississippi. Thank almighty god that same person won't be able to pick up an inflatable ewe to work off that suppressed rage.
What am I missing here? And please, feel free to explain it to me. How is banning the sale of sex toys going to... what's it supposed to do again? I often get criticized for making fun of the south on Kos. But you have to admit that stuff like this makes it very hard to take the south seriously about anything.