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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">BobDesperado</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Possum Tom</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div>This discussion quickly evolved from events of 150 years ago to a stereotype that the South is filled with racists in 2011.<br />
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	The only difference I see betwen a Southern racist and one from Boston is the southern dude has a flag to wave as a warning signal.</div></blockquote>
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	I dare anyone to find a more openly racist, and verbally venomous place that rural mass.</div></blockquote>
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	How about Mississippi, where a new poll shows that 46% of Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal?<br />
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	And another 16% aren't sure.<br />
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	That's 60% who basically agree with Alexander Stephens.</div></blockquote>
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	<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">BobDesperado</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div>This discussion quickly evolved from events of 150 years ago to a stereotype that the South is filled with racists in 2011.</div></blockquote>
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	That would be true if anyone had said anything of the sort in this thread, but it didn't happen.  Not even close.</div></blockquote>
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	What no one has done in this thread is defend racism, slavery or the Confederate flag.<br />
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	I've lived in the North for almost half my life and in the South for the other half...there are racist fucks in both places and  stereotyping the South as primarily racist in 2011 is as offensive as any other stereotype....I've never met a person who owned slaves nor have I ever met anyone who longs for the 'good ol days" of slavery, that they couldn't have possibly experienced in the first place.<br />
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	Re-enacting any war is bizarre to my way of thinking but it's done all over the world and must have a meaning or attraction I can't comprehend.<br />
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	Seven states attempted to secede from the Union........this secession attempt,  took place during the transition of the Buchanan to Lincoln presidency......the ruling Republicans claimed  the act of secession itself was treason, even before a single shot was fired..........it was deemed illegal by the Lincoln administration which led to the attack on Ft. Sumter in S.C. the very heart of the secession.......these states had many things in common, including slavery....not all the "slave states" were part of the original secession. The war started because of secession, secession was driven by many things with the most obvious being slavery. Ironically, Lincoln had stated he had no intent  to end slavery where it already existed.</div></blockquote>
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	I posted that Mississippi poll tidbit AFTER you claimed people were stereotyping the South.  I'd still like to see where anyone did anything of the sort before you made that comment, because I looked over the thread again and it just isn't there.<br />
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	What people have done in this thread is present the cuddly Southern alternative view of the War as only tangentially related to slavery.  To which I can only give a big har-dee-har-har.<br />
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	Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour recently opened his ignorant mouth and talked about how in his youth in the early 60s things just weren't so darn bad for black people in his neck of the woods.  You can claim all day long that there's no difference in extant racism between the North and the South, but a reptile like Barbour doesn't get elected Governor up here.  Doesn't happen.  But Barbour's considered a presidential contender in 2012 because he's supposedly got a strong regional appeal.<br />
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	The region isn't the Pacific Northwest.<br />
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	It's not a "stereotype" to say college football is a bigger deal in Texas than it is in Massachusetts, and it's not a "stereotype" to say the South still has a bigger percentage of die-hard still-fighting-the-Civil-War racists than other areas of the country do.  That doesn't mean "the South is filled with racists."  It means there's a reason why GOP chairmen (3 of them so far) feel compelled to apologize for the Southern Strategy.  They haven't done that because the strategy didn't work, they've done that because it worked very well.

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