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bvar22

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71. Lived it and Loved it.

Reply to cwydro (Reply #70)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:16 PM

Jun 2015

You would have had to been there to understand.

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Listen, y'all: [View all] GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 OP

K & R Iliyah Jun 2015 #1

Only if you give me some delicious Southern food BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #2

Well, let's see... GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #17

Yeah, well ok, that'll do BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #25

I don't treat the south that way. My mom's entire family came from there and the roguevalley Jun 2015 #82

Chicken, smothered pork chops, red beans and rice, greens BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #83

its hard to lose. its hard to lose and they haven't gone through it all yet. I do adore the food. roguevalley Jun 2015 #86

What? No grits? KamaAina Jun 2015 #122

I thought about grits BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #126

Lunch at Mrs. Wilkes on me, BrotherIvan. aikoaiko Jun 2015 #90

I went there once and then went there again BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #104

Yes indeed. I go once a year with my co-workers in December. aikoaiko Jun 2015 #117

Wow you have a lot of delicious things to choose from BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #121

I'm from the south, liberal, and live in a trailer. Jamastiene Jun 2015 #3

I grew up gay in the south too. cwydro Jun 2015 #13

regional-bashing used to be against the TOS - not sure why they decided to change that DrDan Jun 2015 #67

We went from having moderaters awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #125

I certainly understand that - but that does not explain why region-bashing DrDan Jun 2015 #130

Oh, okay awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #131

I'm a proud Kentuckian and politically somewhere to the left of Bernie Sanders. Stonepounder Jun 2015 #53

I've always had good neighbors in the south, cwydro Jun 2015 #85

Where's my shoe? GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #98

KnR Hekate Jun 2015 #4

"Perpetually Punished" kentauros Jun 2015 #5

To be fair, their "punishment" is just hot air, and exposes them as illogical thinkers. djean111 Jun 2015 #28

And sometimes in spite of our ancestors. Fawke Em Jun 2015 #34

East Tennessee here too. R. P. McMurphy Jun 2015 #87

the difference between red and blue states is often a few percentage points. fbc Jun 2015 #6

I understand and appreciate what you're saying. lovemydog Jun 2015 #7

Stereotypes are such an easy trap to fall into. Paka Jun 2015 #8

Texas will turn blue one day and when that happens the GOP will have no chance to elect POTUS Gothmog Jun 2015 #9

I think if they allowed everyone to vote it would be blue already. Enthusiast Jun 2015 #11

Texas wil not turn blue any time soon. ananda Jun 2015 #40

Standing with my southern progressive sisters and brothers. lark Jun 2015 #45

if texas counted their votes ,who knows questionseverything Jun 2015 #59

K and r! cwydro Jun 2015 #10

Exactly right. cherokeeprogressive Jun 2015 #12

From reading DU recently brer cat Jun 2015 #15

Ditto. cwydro Jun 2015 #21

... Cali_Democrat Jun 2015 #27

Well said, GaYellowDawg. brer cat Jun 2015 #14

You coul start a hashtag. #NotAllSoutherners. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #16

I voted with my feet after I left for college in the NE...never went back to Texas to live and yes, CTyankee Jun 2015 #18

Well said and I agree panader0 Jun 2015 #19

Imagine reading thread after thread saying "Americans should..." Phentex Jun 2015 #23

ITA, well said! DawgHouse Jun 2015 #20

It must be nice for them, to feel so superior and all. dawg Jun 2015 #22

Hear hear!!! Avalux Jun 2015 #24

Agreed randys1 Jun 2015 #26

It doesn't seem right nilesobek Jun 2015 #29

Well, Dawg, I have to agree with you on this one. Homer Wells Jun 2015 #30

"We can catch a lot of crap for our views down here." ... Boy do we!!! ... ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2015 #31

Thank you, GaYellowDawg! Glorfindel Jun 2015 #32

I think the people who start those types of threads have no idea how boring they are. Hiraeth Jun 2015 #33

Bingo. cwydro Jun 2015 #35

They would not do well debating the blacks I work with. I know a black woman who would Hiraeth Jun 2015 #39

As a progressive salimbag Jun 2015 #56

Results... Major Nikon Jun 2015 #88

Good grief Hiraeth Jun 2015 #93

Seriously? 3catwoman3 Jun 2015 #110

... Major Nikon Jun 2015 #115

FYI salimbag Jun 2015 #127

FYI Major Nikon Jun 2015 #128

No problem salimbag Jun 2015 #129

The black women at work do not even like the term African American. They say they are American. Hiraeth Jun 2015 #123

This message was self-deleted by its author Hiraeth Jun 2015 #36

My relatives in Mississippi have been there Greybnk48 Jun 2015 #37

There are racists (and otherwise ignorant people) everywhere. Jamaal510 Jun 2015 #38

Thank you. Not only that, please stop giving Westerners, Midwesterners, Easterners, etc. a pass... TygrBright Jun 2015 #41

Those people are ignorant of the demographics in the south. herding cats Jun 2015 #42

K and R geardaddy Jun 2015 #43

Oregon, typically viewed as some lefty utopia, has an ugly history. Maedhros Jun 2015 #66

Austin ain't too Texas. Course I live in a Teabillie paradise. marble falls Jun 2015 #44

K&R stage left Jun 2015 #46

South is more rural and religious ErikJ Jun 2015 #47

K & R Thespian2 Jun 2015 #48

One could probably make a valid argument that Georgia is less racist than Massachusetts (Boston) George II Jun 2015 #49

The same way one could make the valid argument that unicorns exist kcr Jun 2015 #55

Those aren't the only manifestations of racism - those are extremes. There are a lot more subtle... George II Jun 2015 #58

Those are extremes. And they don't happen everywhere in the US kcr Jun 2015 #63

Yep malaise Jun 2015 #50

Florida chiming in DonCoquixote Jun 2015 #51

It still seems a distinct region though treestar Jun 2015 #52

According to the OP and others with this complaint, you're not allowed to discsuss the differences. kcr Jun 2015 #54

Good God in heaven, kcr, cant you read? MadLinguist Jun 2015 #73

Yes, I can read. It's an unreasonable request. kcr Jun 2015 #89

All I ask is one word. GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #96

No. kcr Jun 2015 #105

No, it's not. GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #114

Hey, I'm not disallowing anything. You can say what you want. GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #99

K & R Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #57

It's easy to be a progressive in some of the liberal enclaves on both coasts. totodeinhere Jun 2015 #60

K&R NikolaC Jun 2015 #61

As my ex-new zealander inlaws used to say --Clearly, Americans are stupid, prayin4rain Jun 2015 #62

GaYellowDawg, you are not Yellow you are Azure Blue. saidsimplesimon Jun 2015 #64

It's a pun. GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #97

excellent post - I too am growing tired of the South-bashing DrDan Jun 2015 #65

Can't rec this post highly enough. pa28 Jun 2015 #68

Somebody gimme nother worm!!! bvar22 Jun 2015 #69

Are you quite ok? cwydro Jun 2015 #70

Lived it and Loved it. bvar22 Jun 2015 #71

Thank you for this post. DamnYankeeInHouston Jun 2015 #72

+ 1,000,000,000 FlaGatorJD Jun 2015 #74

Thank you so much GaYellowDawg TNNurse Jun 2015 #75

y'all need all the love you can get!!!! luvspeas Jun 2015 #76

I grew up in the South Duppers Jun 2015 #77

It's pretty weird, when you think about it. JoeyT Jun 2015 #78

Excellent post tymorial Jun 2015 #79

Hear hear. We know that southern liberals have been doing great work paulkienitz Jun 2015 #80

Hey, revisionist history has been in the south since the Civil War! raven mad Jun 2015 #81

Not everyone in Illinois is a Nazi either.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #84

I've never believed that the people who bash the South are talking about Democrats... BlueJazz Jun 2015 #91

Ahem. I hate to be a grammar nazi but, progressoid Jun 2015 #92

All y'all prayin4rain Jun 2015 #94

Not a bad point, lol... GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #101

I was told this when I attended a wedding in TN! progressoid Jun 2015 #107

"Y'all" is already plural, despite what Hollywood might tell us. Orsino Jun 2015 #116

Thanks for the post. nt kelliekat44 Jun 2015 #95

"Some" northerers fadedrose Jun 2015 #100

You make a good point. I live where the liberals are few Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #102

Do realize there's antediluvians everywhere. nightscanner59 Jun 2015 #103

I've lived in the south all my life. Sorry, I think we deserve the criticism until our crud is all Hoyt Jun 2015 #106

I'm from the South too. mwooldri Jun 2015 #108

Southerners are bound to have mixed feelings about their history. lumberjack_jeff Jun 2015 #109

Just as all Americans should. nm rhett o rick Jun 2015 #111

True enough, but the rest of us won our revolution. n/t lumberjack_jeff Jun 2015 #112

Who is "the rest of us"? nm rhett o rick Jun 2015 #118

People who don't strongly identify with the south, and the confederacy? lumberjack_jeff Jun 2015 #120

This Yankee appreciates awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #113

Any time it's pointed out about Southern bashing, ladyVet Jun 2015 #119

Much of this angst is inaccurate inference from accurate language though whatthehey Jun 2015 #124

Sigh. GaYellowDawg Jun 2015 #132

Bush vs Gore was decided by the felonious five. Uncle Joe Jun 2015 #133

If we see the article How the South Skews America three times on here... Phentex Jul 2015 #134

I don't know why this message board can't figure this out. Hosnon Jul 2015 #135