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That is one of the very few Hank Williams Jr. Songs that I like.
"Family Tradition" is one of my life anthems. :lol:
That is one of the very few Hank Williams Jr. Songs that I like.
Exactly, GottaGo. I've lived all over, and you're going to find racism and bigotry no matter where you go. The South is just an easy target for jokes like that.
It's more true than it should be. Wasn't it only a few months ago North Carolina passed a Constitutional Amendment banning homosexual marriage? Was it not a year or two ago when Arizona passed its racial profiling law? I still remember the story from last year in Texas where a man hung a metal chair soon after Clint Eastwood's speech to the RNC.
Of course the whole of the South is not like that. But I think you're drastically overstating the improvements which have been made, especially when you move to the more rural areas.
The South is not full of slackjawed racist ignorant yokels, just like the Northeast is not full of pseudo-intellectual pompous jackasses. It's just that there are more of them there than in other places.
I agree with Both Of you, There seems to be an Invincible line, North and South, of racism and bigotry , with which only time and knowledge will heal.
I don't know if you are serious of just funning. But with Jimmy as governor, due to to foresightedness when it came to integration and equality of one and all. He saved Georgia from going through a lot of pain that Alabama and Mississippi and a couple of other states did. Until a couple of years ago the motto of Atlanta was, "A city too busy to hate." I just can see how A T L can replace that.
Great timing for me personally regarding the thread, Goshin.
Last weekend my wife and I went to a local restaurant for lunch. I was wearing a Georgia hat. Two guys from out of town were sitting at the bar. I howdy'd, "How y'all doing?" as I always do. They were nice enough. Not Southern, however. One fellow with good natured kidding asked if the whole town ate at this restaurant or did we have another one hidden. Or, he asked, "Did we fly all the way from Georgia just for the food?" The other guy couldn't wait to put an edge on the conversation, wanting to know if I had trouble drinking from anything that wasn't a Mason Jar and why would I wear a Georgia hat if I lived in Arizona and I was lucky to have gotten out of the South.
It wears you down. Outside of Dixie, people hear your accent and some of them can't wait to say or somehow act toward you like you are one of dumbest mother****ers on the planet. Then they start with racist jokes thinking because you are from the South that you are a bigoted asshole (like them!) who can't hold back a good ignorant hate.
It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens. Eventually, you drop your guard and start acting Southern and sooner or later some halfwit can't wait to call you on it. There's a guy I know, I don't know him real well, but we've had lunch a couple of times. He's from Birmingham. The guy dresses to the nines all the time, all the time. He told me that he had to out dress and out class people to avoid being considered a brain dead Gomer.
Unfortunately, I do understand. I don't agree, but I understand. With a Southern accent, if you smile too much or laugh too much, or if you talk to strangers or if you talk openly, or if you talk too much more about things than the weather to people you don't really know, you run a risk of being stereotyped as dimwitted Southerner. Every Southern adult knows it and has experienced it more than a couple of times. Living outside the South it tends to wear you down.
You mean the ideas of those famous southerners, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, those past political outlooks?
oooOOOOoooooooh the Humanity...
Me and Bocephus were good ole' drinking buddies back in the day. Nothing like an old dive bar and a good jukebox... But, me and my rowdy friends have settled down...So now it's all whimsical reminiscence...
No, I was serious. I am quite an admirer of Jimmy Carter. His humanitarian work is nothing short of phenomenal. The fact that so many on the right hate him is very revealing about their mentality and priorities.
No, I was serious. I am quite an admirer of Jimmy Carter. His humanitarian work is nothing short of phenomenal. The fact that so many on the right hate him is very revealing about their mentality and priorities.
The south has the best food in the country and the near the top in weather; outside of hurricanes and high humidity. The best cost of living. The best beaches.
I have lived in the north and south. I see less racism in the south...
I think you got that completely wrong. The right never hated President Carter, it was the liberal Democrats who didn't like Carter. Jimmy Carter was a weak President because he couldn't control the radical left with in the Democrat Party. The Democrats controlled Congress and Carter couldn't control the Democrats in Congress.
Jimmy Carter gets the blame from the right for allowing the Democrats to cause our military to fall in disrepair during the late 1970's. Carter as Cn'C is responsible to make sure that there's a carrier in every five of the Navy's AOR's. Carter was able to do this just like the past 11 Presidents except Obama. But Carter failed to see that Congress to appropriate the funds to keep the Navy's ships to be able to put to sea and fight, the Air Force aircraft being able to fly and that soldiers and Marines are training for war so they bleed less on the battlefield.
Jimmy Carter was a former Navy officer and a graduate of Annapolis. He saw the hollow military and actually tried to increase defense spending but Carter couldn't even provide leadership with in his own party.
Any time Congress is dysfunctional, you have to look at who's the POTUS.
In my life time I never came across a Republican who "hated" Jimmy Carter. They just look at him as being a weak President who couldn't control his own political party. From 76-80 the Republicans were willing to work with Carter but the Democrats weren't.
People hate Carter because of this: Operation Eagle Claw