Reply #31: Hey y'all [View All]

I have to admit that as being a denizen of one of bluest parts of the blue states, that I have at times looked down my nose at the South even to the point of expressing that after what George W. and Tom Delay of Texas, Trent Lott of Mississippi, Newt Gingrich of Georgia, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Al Gore and Robert Frist of Tennessee have done to this country--Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee must be looking up from hell and laughing their starred-and-barred asses off! I would be quite glad to spend the rest of my life never hearing another Southron twang voicing the agenda of the national political scene.(admittedly, Californians of late have been no great shakes either, okay, bad pun) I particularly had a grudge against Texas, wishing that after the Civil War if only we had re-admitted all of the secesh states EXCEPT Texas or that if only Santa Ana had just besieged the Alamo for six months and let the crazy bastards self-immolate like the feds did at Waco a century and a half later that all would be right with the world. I hate the Dallas Cowboys and everything they stand for and just about everything about Texas, frothed and foamed, I simply DESPISED Texas and Texans for being Texans and then --BANG It hit me.
I LOVE Steve Earle. I LOVE Jim Hightower. I LOVE Molly Ivins.
How can I hate Texans and Texas when if I can name at least three of them, there must be alot of great Americans sweltering under the Red heat of evangical corporate yahooism? (Fuck Nepal, FREE TEXAS!)
Then along came John Edwards and spoke about things I've longed to hear from a politician, and what can I say, I heard the word and the scales fell from my eyes and I put away the childish things of petty regional prejudices and became, once more, a believer in democracy and the Democratic Party!
Thanks Reb
Oh yeah, and Slavery? Let's never forget that when a foreigner saw Old Glory in the first eighty-five years of our existence, he saw the flag of slavery. Slavery was an AMERICAN thing.