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

[Fawke Em]

29. No they're not.

What you don't get is that we are in a vacuum of information in the South. Most people vote Republican, not because they're racist, but because they don't know anything else.

All our talk radio is right-wing, the majority of our local news stations are right-wing and the majority of our newspapers are right-wing. There is very little - and in many places, no - opposing viewpoints. The only way to get an opposing viewpoint is to either try and find MSNBC (which isn't carried on as many cable packages) or get satellite radio, which, in these economic times, might not be something one can afford.

If all you hear, day-in and day-out is the right-wing side of the spectrum, then that's what you know.

It has little to do with race and more to do with propaganda and exposure.