Message to Llewlladdwr & all other Southerners: Perspective on the South bashing.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. I do not even engage with them.

They have no facts.

Some gun nut at the P.O. the other day told me there was gonna be a revolt in January (only reason I can think of would be Obama's re-inauguration) and the poor people were gonna leave the city and come raid our little town (even though they don't have cars--good trick) and we needed to stockpile guns, ammo, and dried food. I say he is a gun nut because he was slobbering over a 30 ought 6 Remington he was talking about with the clerk at the post office.

I wanted to ask this guy, "Who told you that?"

Or the woman at the book club who said she lived in Spain for two years and they are "too socialist. They're lazy. They take a nap after lunch."

The idea that people get sleepy after lunch and can't do any work was utterly foreign to her, i guess. I thought I was dealing with a right-wing conservative and didn't pursue it.

I live in TX and my county went 2-1 for McCain last time.

I put a big Obama Biden sign in my yard back in 2008 and guys drove by in pickups yelling "FUCK YOU!! FUCK OBAMA!!" The woman (white) across the street said, "WHUT'S THAT OBAMMY THANNNGG??"

I bet they would be happy to get out their shotguns and put holes in my Obama sign and possibly in me or my husband if we were in the yard.

Texas is blue in the cities but reactionary/libertarian in the country.