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Martin Eden

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26. I just spent a week vacationing in the South

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 10:30 PM

Jun 2013

Hiking in the mountains of North Carolina -- Linville Gorge & Wilson Creek wildernesses, to be exact.

On our first overnight backpack down Gragg Prong creek it rained all day, all night, and into the morning. We found a room in Linville the next day at the Pixie Motel, owned & operated by a nice lady in her 60's who was obviously conservative (she had a big photo of Ronald Regan in a cowboy hat on her office wall). The room was nice & very reasonably priced, and when we asked if we could spread out our camping gear on the front lawn of the motel (the sun came out with a nice breeze) -- she not only had no objection to that, she let us use the motel's industrial dryer, at no charge, to dry our wet clothes.

When I cheerfully thanked her she made a remark about Southern hospitality, and that indeed is what it was

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Without the Southern States, the rest of us would miss... [View all] alp227 Jun 2013 OP

Honestly Trajan Jun 2013 #1

Get the rope. (from a commercial) nt okaawhatever Jun 2013 #4

Say, okaawhatever, do you remember the change in that commercial? KansDem Jun 2013 #131

Ha Ha thanks for the flashback. I didn't remember the New Jersey version. I also didn't remember the okaawhatever Jun 2013 #167

Jambalaya! Zydeco music cali Jun 2013 #2

Don't worry. Here in New Orleans, we would declare ourselves Union. Katashi_itto Jun 2013 #38

The Athens music scene, Pylon, REM and the B-52's!nt sylvanus Jun 2013 #123

What? No love for Love Tractor? dawg Jun 2013 #153

Really good thread. TDale313 Jun 2013 #3

I was born, raised, and remain a southerner. I'm used to cringing at what our alfredo Jun 2013 #27

This is an interesting take on it. susanna Jun 2013 #86

I lived in Michigan for five years. I could see some alfredo Jun 2013 #120

Well, you hit my geographical location back then on the head. susanna Jun 2013 #171

Correction: Cecile Richards is not the founder of Planned Parenthood tammywammy Jun 2013 #5

I could live happily without everything on your list Moses2SandyKoufax Jun 2013 #6

Fine. Don't buy any food grown in the south next winter. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #12

Gram Parsons called Waycross GA the ahole of the world. Hoyt Jun 2013 #22

I went through Waycross once and thought "Man, no wonder Gram Parsons was so melancholy" Tom Ripley Jun 2013 #33

No joke. I've been there a few times, not much and hot. Hoyt Jun 2013 #40

IIRC he spent some of his youth in J-ville. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #60

I was waiting in line when Sweetheart of the Rodeo was released. Hoyt Jun 2013 #72

yes, it was. And he was a great one. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #75

LOL. At least Waycross is famous for something. npk Jun 2013 #152

Add shrimp, grouper, softshell crab... HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #7

Also add, fried catfish, pecan pie, Jack Daniel whiskey, oneshooter Jun 2013 #19

Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Muscle Shoals recording studio dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #20

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #73

That's SWEET tea, iced, yall. One of the best things about the South. nt raccoon Jun 2013 #107

The Allman Brothers are from NYC DontTreadOnMe Jun 2013 #74

What? No they're not! HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #77

You are obviously not an Allman Brother fan... DontTreadOnMe Jun 2013 #83

Only for 47 years.... HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #87

I have pictures of Duane Allman and Berry Oakleys' graves, side by side, at the Rose Hill Cemetary Ghost in the Machine Jun 2013 #90

Cool, man. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #95

I guess you guys didn't get my joke... DontTreadOnMe Jun 2013 #148

No, I didn't at first. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #151

It is the Beacon Theater in New York City DontTreadOnMe Jun 2013 #155

Down here they mostly play the festival circut... HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #159

Friends & relatives, the Alamo, Civil Rights Memorial & SPLC (Montgomery, AL)... pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #8

Strange fruit. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #9

Do you mean WovenGems Jun 2013 #16

Interesting that y'all don't know the idioms of the other half of your culture. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #18

I know the idiom - and am curious as to why you would bring up lynching. cordelia Jun 2013 #23

Things the south is famous for. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #41

Giving smallpox infected blankets to Native Americans. Stonepounder Jun 2013 #68

Yes indeed we did fucked up shit too. Slightly off topic for a celebration of southern culture. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #100

And you are capable of only focusing on the bad. Got it. cordelia Jun 2013 #115

I wasn't the one who brought up 'strange fruit' Stonepounder Jun 2013 #116

asking people to celebrate a culture Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #129

And in what Utopia do you reside? cordelia Jun 2013 #142

huh? Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #149

I think he means malaise Jun 2013 #101

Ignorance is bliss. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #103

Ignorance RoseMead Jun 2013 #160

An idiot may believe strange fruit would never have existed without the south. LanternWaste Jun 2013 #132

Could easily do without all of that if it meant a less conservative government RedCappedBandit Jun 2013 #10

+1000 Tom Ripley Jun 2013 #36

This reads, with the exceptions of Ann Richards & Johnny Cash, Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #11

The SEC was a point of contention 154 years ago? LanternWaste Jun 2013 #133

Ann Richards, Johnny Cash, Blue_In_AK Jun 2013 #13

How nice -- thank you, alp227! pacalo Jun 2013 #14

...having a Despised Other to look down on carolinayellowdog Jun 2013 #15

I sure see a lot of "either-or", "all or nothing" thinking. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #137

I've sometimes thought 'what if' the conderacy had been successful wercal Jun 2013 #17

If confederacy had won, we'd be a 3rd world country, and worse. Hoyt Jun 2013 #37

If the Confederacy had won, it would not have lasted very long. DebJ Jun 2013 #88

Of course no one has a crystal ball but if the Confederacy had won, Uncle Joe Jun 2013 #89

I agree...the history of the world would have been very different, has the Confederacy won wercal Jun 2013 #122

William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Harper Lee, Robert Penn Warren, Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers carolinayellowdog Jun 2013 #21

and don't forget Walker Percy and Kate Chopin cali Jun 2013 #24

With the exception of Armstrong, all of those musicians left the south in order to develop... Tom Ripley Jun 2013 #39

Ella left as a child, not to develop her art carolinayellowdog Jun 2013 #44

Truman Capote. nt raccoon Jun 2013 #118

I can live without most of that list. Apophis Jun 2013 #25

I just spent a week vacationing in the South Martin Eden Jun 2013 #26

Molly Ivins !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Martin Eden Jun 2013 #28

Of course! mountain grammy Jun 2013 #57

and JIM HIGHTOWER too! another great texan. alp227 Jun 2013 #66

I've lived in the South, North East, and the West. Coccydynia Jun 2013 #29

Almost all of that could be imported from the south if they were another country Tom Ripley Jun 2013 #30

Assuming we'd sell it to you... HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #80

pie shakes La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2013 #31

As a damn Yankee (born in Manhattan) currently living in Chapel Hill, NC mnhtnbb Jun 2013 #32

Your post seems to be anti-South to me. ZombieHorde Jun 2013 #34

But I LIKE all thos things I listed! Wow, some people here STILL don't get it. alp227 Jun 2013 #69

Um no. Mexican food came from Mexico. Not Texas. bunnies Jun 2013 #130

Neil Young ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2013 #35

He moved from Woodside (CA)? deurbano Jun 2013 #47

Born in ontario ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2013 #98

Yeah, I'm a big fan, and know he's from Canada originally... deurbano Jun 2013 #121

I once read that he was living in fla while ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2013 #139

Just think what we've missed without Canada. ErikJ Jun 2013 #42

I grew up in VA abelenkpe Jun 2013 #43

You forgot ZZ Top and Flipper. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2013 #45

oh hell yeah, ZZ Top. liberal_at_heart Jun 2013 #93

Grits! Buns_of_Fire Jun 2013 #46

Shrimp & grits? reusrename Jun 2013 #150

Cheese Grits oneshooter Jun 2013 #162

Would do anything for the South zentrum Jun 2013 #48

What if liberals from the South want to escape? Would the North grant them amnesty? n/t alp227 Jun 2013 #70

Speak for Yourself mckara Jun 2013 #49

If the Yankees were so smart, why haven't they split? NightWatcher Jun 2013 #50

Key Lime Pie. Chipper Chat Jun 2013 #51

Lots of our relatives and friends. CBHagman Jun 2013 #52

Most of the non-white population of the united states. JoeyT Jun 2013 #53

thanks-- a thread that stressed "imagine a US that is much whiter and richer" carolinayellowdog Jun 2013 #56

This graph is a little misleading, doesn't account for heavily Latino or Asian communities alp227 Jun 2013 #71

I am just looking for an 80-20 America, like in LBJ's time. Without the south, no LBJ, no MLK graham4anything Jun 2013 #54

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Al Gore, Uncle Joe Jun 2013 #55

THe negatives FAR outweight the positives broadcaster75201 Jun 2013 #58

Doubt you're missed much. cordelia Jun 2013 #143

Let me say that we're Sissyk Jun 2013 #147

Great comeback Art_from_Ark Jun 2013 #161

lol! Sissyk Jun 2013 #163

As one who hails from the extreme northwest corner of the Old South, Art_from_Ark Jun 2013 #164

LOL. What misery has south caused upon millions npk Jun 2013 #158

I have a real problem with this thread Samantha Jun 2013 #59

Anna Nicole itsrobert Jun 2013 #63

Dolly Parton Samantha Jun 2013 #76

SEC Football? itsrobert Jun 2013 #61

Nope ajk2821 Jun 2013 #67

It's people playing a game where everyone beats the shit out each other for a ball. Gravitycollapse Jun 2013 #92

Easy to say... ajk2821 Jun 2013 #104

+1 Go Vols Jun 2013 #124

Southerners Chiennoir54 Jun 2013 #62

The vast majority of the nation's domestic oil production, for starters. frustrated_lefty Jun 2013 #64

Ronald Reagan ajk2821 Jun 2013 #65

Three of the infamous five were born and raised either in the North or California Uncle Joe Jun 2013 #81

P.S. Of the Citizens United Decision 4 of the five were born and raised in the North or California Uncle Joe Jun 2013 #82

They all owed their positions to a political party built on southern support. Marr Jun 2013 #165

I disagree, they all owed their positions to a party built on division, propaganda, Uncle Joe Jun 2013 #166

It's hard to argue with that. Marr Jun 2013 #169

Peace to you, Marr. Uncle Joe Jun 2013 #170

There is more, virtually all of the U.S. corporate media is headquartered in Uncle Joe Jun 2013 #85

Reagan was born in Dixon Illinois. ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2013 #106

Fine ajk2821 Jun 2013 #110

NBA basketball? I'll take the Stanley Cup anyday. If they played an NBA final in my backyard, I'd brewens Jun 2013 #78

Bush Family Fascists....oh wait, they're from Connecticut. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #79

I don't care about this argument, it is futile. Rex Jun 2013 #84

oh, Texas pecans are the best. I would also like to add Stevie Ray Vaughan. liberal_at_heart Jun 2013 #91

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tom Petty are both terrible. Elvis stole his music from black artists. Gravitycollapse Jun 2013 #94

Let me summarize your posts ajk2821 Jun 2013 #105

Disagree with you about Elvis. He was greatly influenced by Dean Martin and his early Sun material byeya Jun 2013 #125

southern DUers Jamastiene Jun 2013 #96

To name a few: Tanuki Jun 2013 #97

I only make fun of Californians davidpdx Jun 2013 #99

And you're on our list... pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #108

The funny thing is I was born there davidpdx Jun 2013 #111

I was born in Chicago, but rolled here when they tilted everything... pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #112

Well better a Niner fan than a Bears fan davidpdx Jun 2013 #113

Not a fan, actually (and besides, I'm in SoCal) pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #114

Rock phosphate for organic gardeners Kolesar Jun 2013 #102

Yes, they do. Its pretty destructive to the enviroment. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #138

I could do without about 90% of those things. Chan790 Jun 2013 #109

a lot of great American literature d_r Jun 2013 #117

I support your thread, and your fine attempt at educating our fellow Liberals. kentauros Jun 2013 #119

Appreciate the effort, but I ignore the threads from small-minded people who hate the south. -nt Bonx Jun 2013 #126

Ann Richards? She was supposed to be a mean SOB. ryan_cats Jun 2013 #127

Hmmm. deathrind Jun 2013 #128

Without the south, I'd sorely miss my friends and family. LanternWaste Jun 2013 #134

Right DainBramaged Jun 2013 #135

You can enjoy another country's culture Proud Public Servant Jun 2013 #136

I was born and raised in South Carolina the first State to secede from the Union. I left and stayed Lint Head Jun 2013 #140

Screw the teabaggers. We are ONE NATION. Bake Jun 2013 #141

You left out the best thing: arcane1 Jun 2013 #144

Well, then, there ya go! kentauros Jun 2013 #146

Most of what you list, I wouldn't miss at all LittleBlue Jun 2013 #145

The list barely scratches the surface pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #157

I like Tom Petty, Johnny Cash and pancakes. MrSlayer Jun 2013 #154

Thanks. redqueen Jun 2013 #156

Alton Brown. opiate69 Jun 2013 #168