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96. I don't know any Southerner who lives up to your accusations.

- No one around here even talks about the Civil War, for example. I hear more about it on DU.
- Not everyone votes Republican. Between the gerrymandering and lack of alternative media, yes, there are far more Republicans than there should be, but most Southern states are just about five to 10 percentage points from being blue.
- While a know a handful of Southern rightwing Christian bigots, most of the people I encounter daily are much more diverse: Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Atheists and of all walks of life. My son's school is a virtual melting pot of diversity. He's half Arabic and has never once had anyone tease him about his name - that would be kind of stupid in a school full of people with Spanish, Mexican, Russian and Indian last names.
- Teachers in Tennessee have a union, so maybe it's only South Carolina.
- The South is different than when you were a child.
- Mark Sandford is an idiot, but, again, with few media alternatives (the right owns talk radio down here - you have to pay to get liberal talk - even in cities like mine that are blue and have been for years), it's hard to ween the people off Republican propaganda.