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In reply to the discussion: Want to know why Obama is hated so much in the South? See 12 Years a Slave [View all]paleotn
(17,911 posts)...those labels don't really mean much anymore. I consider myself a southerner, only because that is where I grew up. It's simply a matter of geography more than culture. My family is a hodge podge. I'm a mix of Scots Irish small farmers in North Carolina, middle to west Tennessee and western Kentucky, but also small farmers from Michigan and Indiana. On Dad's side, I'm only 3rd generation born in the US, so I suppose that makes me a transplanted Irishman with roots in Coleraine and Derry. My point being that most of us, both north and south, cannot be categorized by something that happened almost 150 years ago and to do that so blatently, quite frankly says more about you than the Raleigh - Durham - Chapel Hill area. Way too many generations have passed and most of us are an interesting mix by now. Thus, your argument is way off base, since I can find the same racism in Spokane, WA as Charleston, SC. The Michigan "militia" nuts are just as racist as a bunch of crackers running around the Georgia woods in bedsheets. And I bet you'd have just as much trouble finding a showing of 12 Years a Slave in Cleveland, OH as the NC Triangle.
My advice? Stop being so damn provincial yourself.