Despite being Southern Born, why I loathe the South.

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thanks Kayman, for your honesty. i can read in your words your sadness about the place of your birth. but you are a good example of overcoming the bigotry. Good for you, and at LPSG, good for us !!!
 

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I lived in Tennessee for a small time. It was cool sometimes, but man...it could be really bad. My girl at the time and I got evicted from her family's place for having a black friend.

Lived in OR, too. Seemed like the South took a shit and it landed right there...

Well...damn.
 

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Sad too say I don't think this attitude or mentality is exclusive to the south. The amazing thing is that the mindset is so well entrenched among people that claim to be so intellectual or educated.


I have to say I agree but it is far more prevalent here in the South than other locations.

I can also say it was never perceived as that much of an issue until we elected our first Bi-Racial president.
So , given that my question would be, was it there all the time and just made more vocal by electing President OBAMA or did the election of OBAMA exacerbate the racial animus within those who would naturally oppose him but not so vehemently ?

Food for Thought

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I have to say I agree but it is far more prevalent here in the South than other locations.

I can also say it was never perceived as that much of an issue until we elected our first Bi-Racial president.
So , given that my question would be, was it there all the time and just made more vocal by electing President OBAMA or did the election of OBAMA exacerbate the racial animus within those who would naturally oppose him but not so vehemently ?

Food for Thought

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I honestly believe that it was there all along but brought to the surface when President Obama was elected. That's why the right is imploding (what a beautiful sight! :biggrin1:) and moving further and further to the right. They courted those people for decades with dogwhistle rhetoric and now they've taken over the party. As the notorious Rev. Wright said, "The chickens are coming home to roost...".
 

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Not to say there aren't ignorant people in the south but lately these polls in the media have been a tool to influence people instead of polling what the general opinion is.

When it comes to politics I don't buy into polls or statistics, coming from a school where we had to learn all about research including polls I learned you can make anything up because nobody cares enough to validate the numbers.

I remember a few years back Obama was being placed third in polls for the presidency but the actual election night he got a shitload of votes.

Jon Stewart called Fox News out several times for having weird numbers in their polls like if you added it up it would make 107% or just mixing up names.
 
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The South isn't all bad. I was in Little Rock and New Orleans couple of weeks ago and the places I went seemed integrated, not hostile, very enjoyable.

That may be true but then they are reliable part of the Republican southern strategy that continues to work and continues to give the Republican power it's base of power.
 

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Alabamians have a lot to learn. Looks like displaced Judge Roy Moore will be reelected as Alabama Supreme Court Justice again this year. :frown1:

Most Alabamians doesn't seem to care, and that is why he is getting reelected. I have to say particularly most (sic) white Alabamians when it is clear as day that Moore is an all-around bigot (sexist, racist, homophobic, etc.). It's another reason why I have left the state numerous times for extended periods of time, and will be gone from it permanently very soon. This same group would like for Birmingham to fall into the pits of hell because it is 'too liberal', 'too black', and 'has too many gays'.
 

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Amen! But you forgot paranoid in your description of him. I know someone that worked in the State office building with him before he was ousted, that he insists on changing door locks all the time.
 

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Alabamians have a lot to learn. Looks like displaced Judge Roy Moore will be reelected as Alabama Supreme Court Justice again this year. :frown1:


Yeah I was saddened as well as shocked to hear he won the primary election . WTF is ALABAMA thinking ? SO incredibly stupid!



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Ignorance is rampant throughout the entire country, not just limited to the south.... Opinions stated as facts are still just opinions... Don't make yourself out to be better or smarter based on your individual views of the world around you.
 

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Yeah I was saddened as well as shocked to hear he won the primary election . WTF is ALABAMA thinking ? SO incredibly stupid!



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When former Chief Justice, Sue Bell Cobb, the lone Democrat on the Alabama Supreme Court, stepped down it became a Republican seat by default. The Republican takeover of Alabama has been long and coming for awhile now. The Alabama Democratic Party has been a joke because most of them were "Dixiecrats" looking for a reason to show their true colors and the election of President Obama was it. Most white Alabamians are just like their fellow southern peers in other states, rather elect a nutjob demagogue rather than somebody that exhibits actual jurisprudence.

Kentucky did it with Rand Paul, Georgia did it with both its gubernatorial, state legislative, and US senatorial races, Mississippi continues to do it in all electoral races, Florida has suddenly began to thwart its decades of social progression with idiocy of Rick Scott & Co., Virginia with Bob McConnell & the band of idiots whom enjoy rummaging around women's vaginas, and the list goes on and on. North Carolina is the only Southern state that has avoided by a hair literally, but Tuesday will be judgement day for whether this can stand the test of the sudden uprising of racial (that never left in the first place) and social animus that has come back to the surface in the South.

Alabama is just falling in line with the craziness...
 

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Ignorance is rampant throughout the entire country, not just limited to the south.... Opinions stated as facts are still just opinions... Don't make yourself out to be better or smarter based on your individual views of the world around you.

True, but it is stupid to attempt to legislate morality into law...
 

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In the South...you can immediately find out who your true friends and real enemies in the course of a conversation though. When you are sitting at the dinner table...and most of the conversation is about "God", "God Kills F*gs Dead", and "My...I haven't seen you in a 'c**n's age!", I am not eating or drinking a single gotdamm thing.


I have been known to leave interracial gay porn in those beyotches' restrooms at those gatherings just to fuck with them. After AMENDMENT ONE....I think that I am going to start decoupaging some interracial gay porn in some church restrooms.
 

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Ding dong, North Carolina's social progression is about dead at the moment. I knew something was up and this is so unfortunate. SMH
 

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I'm born and raised in the South and can sympathize with how you feel about the prejudices and bigotry that still remains. However, if you think that that's all the being Southern amounts to, then you're missing a lot of the great things about your heritage. There's more to it than that. To that end, if people, once they find you are from the South, demonize you or judge you based on a blanket belief that all Southerners feel the same way about everything, then that person isn't worth your time.