i would like to thoroughly denounce the Southern Loyalist foundation.

http://www.southernloyalists.org/

jerkoffs like that are why DUers are wary of southerners.

because of a prevalence of attitudes like those at that web site, I always have refused. I love the enlightened attitude of most west coasters and have always been happy in this part of the country. I'd get in trouble in the south, punching out rednecks all the time.

new orleans is a very progressive city, and there are lots of libs (albeit closet ones) to be found.

living in the panhandle of texas, not even the true south,.........

(albeit closet ones)

for a liberal to have to be closet, says it all, dont you think. i cannot put a kerry sign in my front yard because my husband owns a business and many know the house and word gets out. that is wrong

You are meeting the definition of the "Good German"

It is sad you have to live in fear because of what you think....

i just cant put it on our front lawn, i can however have one on car and everyone i run into be it grocery clerk, teacher or anyone else talk.

popped my head in the bankruptcy court downtown today and had the biggest laugh. older employees standing around and i say,.......just popping my head in to see how business is with bush's economy. they sat about stunned and i am smilin, and one says really well thank you, and i laugh.........

my husband promised me we would move, and then he bought a business. i am stuck for a while. but no, i dont keep my mouth shut, not at all, with very few. had one tell me not long ago, he new i was a liberal, i had that look, lol.

I'm, for reasons external to my personal choices, living in West Virginia. It's not quite the "South" but it's pretty representative of a bible-thumping rural-dominated state. Most of the people around here, in this county and the few surrounding, are overwhelmingly in support of Bush. Bumper stickers everywhere, most of them about God, Jesus, and Freedom.

But I live in Shepherdstown. There are no less than four Kerry signs along the drive from this parking lot to the corner. I just learned yesterday there's an abortion clinic right behind my building. There's a college here. It's a small oasis of blue in a very red community.

I imagine it's the same in every state, for varying reasons.

The South is North of us. :hi:

You ARE a REDNECK...actually something worse, I assume you are joking right?

Gee, it looks like you don't need to go far from your own "enlightened" neck of the woods to find "rednecks" to punch out. Are you brave enough to take on the local haters in real life, or are you just another keyboard cowboy?

Three Oregon men and a juvenile accused of a drive-by shooting spree through predominately black Portland neighborhoods on the eve of Martin Luther King Day face more than a dozen state criminal charges as well as the possibility of federal hate crimes prosecution....

"Portland is a city still trying to get over the murder of Mulugeta Seraw," said racism expert and Portland State University assistant professor Randy Blazak. "It doesn't look good on your brochure."

Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian student at PSU, was beaten to death with steel baseball bats by three members of the East Side White Pride. The Southern Poverty Law Center later won a $12.5 million judgment against White Aryan Resistance leader Tom Metzger, who was linked to the skinheads.

Racism "is always a part of the criminal landscape here," Blazak said.

http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_hate.jsp?id=692

They want all like minded folk to move to South Carolina, to legally create their kind of world.

I say let them! - I'll take in South Carolina refugees...

abortion AND Southern bashing. Are you having fun yet? :hi:

my point was that southerners need to denounce groups like these.

to see where they live to justify their posts.

Stephanie

Methinks that over the lifespan of 80 years or so, that most americans will at some time find themselves living in many states
and nations. To presume that the "place" of your profile is any
statement about you except a current snapshot is rather infantile.

I would hope that a liberal minded person can live in the middle of
hell and still have a pure heart. It is interesting that some people
over-identify with the patch of ground where they walk every day...
and all politics is local and all that... but we in truth are roaming
animals of the earth. You are free. The earth is all of our homes,
and each of us cares for some smaller part, and the whole as well...
one wishes...

Also, it can be educational because folks are able to dispel myths about their locality.

be necessary to UNDERSTAND the post. If location is an integral part of the post, it should be included as part of the post.

Steph

but it has proven effective in debates that I have witnessed over the years. I wish I wasn't so tired because I might be able to think of examples of "historic" posts by WillPitt, Tinoire, tom_paine, mopaul, etc.

You have a good point too... I've been up all night... nite nite.:boring:

Geaux Kerry!!!

Just pointing out the divisiveness of your topics. Did you do a feminism or racism thread yet?

from any region of the country, west, north, east, et cetera. Not everyone from the South is a jerk and a redneck. Your generalizations are equal to Europeans or Middle Easterners saying that every Amerikun thinks and behaves like the "weed that would be king".

Now isn't that rather silly. :shrug:

...all of them call Abraham Lincoln a mass murderer, and propose modern secession of the southern states. One online group, the name escapes me now, frequented Manus Hand's Dead Presidents message boards a few years back and were scathing in their criticisms of Lincoln (I battled them for quite a while on those boards).

Eff 'em!

looks like a front for the KKK

It's funny that there are some on the left who also call for a boycott of "Killer Coke."