OMIGOD... OVM, you don't really believe that, do you? Do you view Southern whites as some subhuman species? What are the schools teaching you guys up North? To equate Southern whites as KKK is tantamount to calling us modern-day Nazis or worse. Please say it ain't so.
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OMIGOD... OVM, you don't really believe that, do you? Do you view Southern whites as some subhuman species? What are the schools teaching you guys up North? To equate Southern whites as KKK is tantamount to calling us modern-day Nazis or worse. Please say it ain't so.
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Hey - that sounds kinda like what we have here with the Federal Reserve and the military/healthcare/industrial complex ..... only we are doing it as a nation, with around 300 million people
It has nothing to do with up north. Not everyone up north is taught that stuff. There are just as many, or more, KKK members up north as in the south. They are just as evil in the north as they are in the south. Up here, back in the early 1900's, they did not only "hate" blacks. They used to "do things" to catholics, union organizers, Italians, Poles etc. Mean, hateful people everywhere are the same.
You find mean hateful people on the Left, Right and Center of the political spectrum. You find them from all races, colors, religions, ethnic backgrounds and education levels.
They all suck.
You forgot Canadians on that list..
Aristotle...I am being upfront and honest with you...laying it out there for all to see...I had a bad upbringing from a race/ethnic perspective
Anything can be fixed, OVM. Bad upbringing can be overcome. It is not easy. No one likes leaving their comfort zone but it can and has been done.
Aristotle, there are people in Frankfort who think us folks in Western Kaintucky run around without shoes on, wear straw hats, have 2 pair of overalls (one for work and one for Sunday Go-To-Meetin'), and eat possum stew 2 or 3 times a week.
Just because it's true doesn't mean they have to think that.
Northerners think The Beverly Hillbillies is a documentary.
Just because it's true doesn't mean they have to think that.
Northerners think The Beverly Hillbillies is a documentary.
Aristotle, there are people in Frankfort who think us folks in Western Kaintucky run around without shoes on, wear straw hats, have 2 pair of overalls (one for work and one for Sunday Go-To-Meetin'), and eat possum stew 2 or 3 times a week.
Just because it's true doesn't mean they have to think that.
Northerners think The Beverly Hillbillies is a documentary.
Not braggin'... I have THREE pairs of shoes and actually wear two of the three pairs. I rotate between work boots and sneakers depending on the weather. My wife, however, must be Imelda Marcos' little sister. Our walk-in closet has become a shrine to women's shoes!
And therein lies the source of most bigotry toward Southerners. People all over the country have been indoctrinated from birth by the absurd stereotypes of the South and Southerners portrayed on TV and movies. In addition to the above we can all think of dozens of examples - Andy of Mayberry, Dukes of Hazzard, Deliverance, etc. and those are just some of the old ones. And to hear the ridiculous accents used by Hollywood actors trying to play Southern characters is nothing short of amusing. However, many people who have never been south of the Mason-Dixon line just assume these portrayals are accurate - but life goes on down here anyway.
Andy Griffith's Mayberry comes closest to the mark of the Southern culture I grew up in. Little Opie and I would pretty much be contemporaries. Put Opie in a 1960's Appalachian coal mining village, that would be me.