> Do try to set aside the hateful contemptuous
> superiority that some Northerners, like Carl, display
> towards the South. Just because people drawl doesn't
> mean they are dumb, right wing, racist,
> violence-prone, or marry their sisters. Remember that
> M.L. King said that he didn't know what racism,
> stupidity, and violence were till he came to Chicago--
Exactly. Stupidity and reaction are everywhere. Regionalist put-downs, while easy, are limiting.
>We'd be better off if someone had followed Sherman's
>advice and executed the whole white Southern
>upper class, but we'd also be
>better off if someone had done the same to the
>Carnegies, Mellons, Fisks, Vanderbilts, and the
>Northern upper classes too.
Very even-handed, andie -- very John Wayne Gacy, but even-handed.
Dennis