South-bashing

[mountain grammy]

71. Haters are everywhere, that's obvious, but somehow the

south is "misunderstood." I don't buy it. While Americans can be nostalgic about idyllic southern childhoods, it was bought and paid for with a level of racial and cultural terror that has never been punished and is only recently even being addressed. I think part of the southern superiority complex comes from never paying a price: for slavery, for the treason of secession, for Jim Crow, for thousands of lynchings and acts of terror.

So when it comes to the daily hate, racism and general stupidity that comes out of southern legislators on a daily basis, is there any wonder why? The south has never willingly accepted equality and literally fought a war against it. They do it "their way" until they are forced to change.
There's something deeply wrong and immoral in the south and it's tainted the whole country. Most of the congressional radicals are southern and they are shoving their radical Christian agenda down our throats, finding allies in fundie churches all over the country, and I'm sick of it.
Until southern states pay reparations to the families of thousands of human beings they have harmed and take responsibility for their history, the legacy will not change.

When it comes to the south and America, the tail has always wagged the dog, right from the very beginning when the constitution codified slavery.