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[deurbano]

41. I was born in Mississippi, grew up in the "Okie" part of the Central Valley, and now live

among the "fruits, flakes and nuts" of San Francisco (as my relatives and "friends" in flyover country have kindly informed me)... so I have a little perspective. (And I studied sociology at Berkeley, another magnet of mockery for a pretty large and vocal segment of this anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti-humanity crowd.) At this point, my gloves are off. Southerners who aren't deplorable should not be offended. In fact, they are our heroes. I could never do what they're doing. I'm definitely a "snowflake" compared to the committed, resilient liberals/progressives (whatever they choose to call themselves) who have been willing to stick it out in (what I consider) "enemy territory" to try to work for change. I can't even handle Thanksgiving dinner with those "enemies" (in my own family). But the South is still deserving of derision... just like Germany under the Nazis (to use an admittedly extreme analogy); we're not mocking the Resistance.