Would the nation be better off if the south would go away?

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282. Bull

The only reason we get defensive is because we get condescended to about our past with no recognition of your own. Where have most of the race riots in American history occurred? I'll give you a hint: it's not the south. Where was the worst rioting over busing? Again, it wasn't the south. Didn't California just pass a big, old amendment to ban gay marriage? Why, yes, I believe they did! Doesn't liberal Oregon ban same-sex marriage? Why yes it does! Sure, they have the separate-but-equal version called civil unions, but, as we're always reminded, separate but equal is unequal.

Fix your own backyard, then feel free to lecture us. When your environment is clean, when your people aren't exploited, when bigotry isn't common place, when your ghettos are gone, and everything is just utopia, feel free to lecture us.

You can bash us all day long, but you won't change shit in this country without us. You make not like that, but reality doesn't care what you like.