The South bashing is getting really old.

[Eleanors38]

141. Some people on DU want to legitimize their hatred by pointing to "facts" about the hated "Other."

We can always find plenty of "facts" to condemn every state, from Florida to Minnesota. We can do the same thing to condemn blacks, Hispanics, Jews, and Gays.

And all those facts are probably true. That is the foul beauty of prejudice and bigotry. We can always find "facts."

There is a swollen chancre on DU's body politic which seeks to condemn not just other DUers, but whole swaths of people outside of our little enclave. By the millions they are condemned on the altar of Shame. On the outside, their thinking is that if you Shame some group of people long enough, they will change. Ha. My impression is that when millions of people are Shamed, they...

DIG IN AND RESIST.

Perhaps therein is the real reason for so much hateful bashing of people: the desire to confront and engage in the same kind of violent murder-mouthing they hear from individuals and groups who bash racial, religious and life-status groups. Only, here on DU, the animosity is aimed at whole geographic regions. Maybe these folks here think that a geographic line, like the Mason-Dixon, insulates them from the same kind of condemnation a racist or sexist might receive. But it doesn't. It's the same game: Hate whole regions...

And find the "facts" to back you up.