Trey Crowder on "The South":

[ret5hd]

This video made me think of recent posts here about the disrespect “the south” gets on DU.

While I admit I despise much of southern culture (so much so that I moved to a bluer locale) my thick Okie/Tex/Ark twang and my love of fried okra/chicken/greens etc will always remind me where I’m from.

[ret5hd]

1. The Drive By Truckers song referenced above:

If you choose to listen closely, I think you will discover a true gem:

[bdamomma]

2. Trey Crowder

love his take on things. Randi Rhodes always plays him.

[nolabear]

3. Good Lord that's good!

It’s so, so complicated. I happened to be driving through MS (I’m from that coast and New Orleans) when Trayvon Martin was killed. I listened to local call-in radio stations wrestle and argue and cry and try to deal from all directions. It was so painful. But when I left, it wasn’t being addressed in the same way in my home in the PNW. People were loathe to believe there was ever any conflict about those terrible not-us people. They were all bad. They couldn’t get to the godawful miserable depth of it, that it is indeed tangled. I’m also surprised people don’t realize that there is a huge multiethnic population there, who contribute so much to the current culture.

I love the South. I hate it too. If we could just have the conversations rather than yell and attaboy one another we might make some tiny progress.

[ret5hd]

4. Hence "the duality of the southern thang".

[LiberaBlueDem]

5. American south

Only place on Earth that flies flags for and raisies monuments to its losers. .....

[ret5hd]

6. Well...the whites anyway.

The rest were busy with civil rights, the blues, good food, jazz, literature, art.

But you keep on with your bad self. We like you just the way you are. Exposed.

[LiberaBlueDem]

16. They are exposed

And their time is ending. Down with that flag and down go the monuments!

[ITAL]

17. That's actually not true

There are other other countries where generals and leaders and even common soldiers who have lost wars (or been ousted) have statues to them.

It's particularly noticeable in the Southern USA however.

[BOSSHOG]

7. Oh Yeah ret5hd

Lived in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The food is incredible. Catfish shacks out in the sticks in Mississippi, crawfish “Berls” in Louisiana, my Grandmas Fried Chicken and Okra and mashed potatoes and gravy and homemade ice cream in Arkansas. Good Lord. And New Orleans music. Thanks for the memories.

[multigraincracker]

8. From the South too.

Best thing about it is, it only takes a minute to know which side some one is on.

I’ve always wondered how it would have been if the South had won. My guess is they would have lined up every Union general and shot them in the head.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Cognitive dissonance? Trey mentions 'forgetting/ignoring' inconvenient facts.

Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

After all, his supporters also brag that Trump 'tells it like it is'.

[ret5hd]

10. Hence "the duality of the southern thang".

[Aristus]

11. Although I'm a die-hard Washingtonian now, I was born and raised in Texas.

I still say “y’all”, and I love my biscuits and gravy. But I’m no longer proud to be Texas-born. And I’ve been castigated here for that several times.

It’s not just that Texas is one of the reddest of red states. It’s that Texans celebrate everything that’s wrong with the place.

Texas is home to the Johnson Space Center and some of the finest universities in the country. But the Texas we get is slathered in bone-headed, anti-intellectual, anti-science redneck vapidity.

Texas is home to some fine, progressive, ultra-modern cities like Dallas and Houston. But Texas embraces the highly inaccurate myth of the pistol-packin’, rootin’-tootin’, six gun shootin’ Old West.

I’m just sick of the (almost literal) bullshit.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

15. Don't forget Austin! n/t

[edhopper]

12. I don't recall anyone disrespecting

The food, or the music or the landscape, or the artist or the towns there.
I do see people pointing out that their deep Red politics is a drag on the nation and a source of some of the worse things politically we have.
I for one will continue to criticize any State for their politics. No matter where they are in this country.
Sorry, they don't get a pass because the barbecue is good.

[ret5hd]

13. I criticize (loudly, vocally) all the things you do.

on edit: so much so that we moved as far away (and as “blue” away) as practical, considering family obligations.

[nolabear]

18. Nobody was giving anybody a pass.

Just acknowledging that it’s complicated and that’s seldom recognized. It wears on people who are working together and could use some love. And so many people are quiet out of fear or resignation or not wanting to destroy relationships, but they’re there.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

14. My SW Missouri likes and ways are gone.

Even the way I speak (probably from the introduction of Spanish) and my dialect. I am a SE Arizona gal!

Amo Arizona!