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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
The South Sucks?
by Doug Giles
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“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” -Charles Rangle, New York Congressman, 2006

If you listen to the Ditsy Chicks, if you like Rosie O’Doggerel and if you think John Kerry is cool, then more than likely you assume the South sucks. Yep, our current culture has been brow beaten by the loons on the Left into viewing the South as societal swill.

In Hollywood, the hedonistic thought thugs make certain that Southerners are tarred and feathered as inbred, Ricky Bobby, moonshine slammin’, KKKMart shoppin’, fat back eatin’, cousin humpin’ square dancers with three teeth and an IQ of 50.

The liberal Belief Police want America to hate the South because the South represents the Secular Regressive’s (SR) chief political and cultural (and armed, I might add) high hurdle.

The autoerotic “elite,” which form the intellectually line bred gene pool of the soulless Left, are hell bent to bar from our borders all praises and practices of the principles which have made the South substantial. What are the things that make Dixie so darn good? Well, I know it’s hard for those of you who are wedged up Hollywood’s backside to understand our virtues, but its stuff like author Clint Johnson points out in his predestined to be best-seller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why it Will Rise Again) . . .

• A strong sense of patriotism that protects the rest of the nation. Dasypygals on the left who incessantly bash the South and hate everything sweet home Alabama stands for ought to eat a little sautéed crow tonight and send the South a thank you card in the morning, as the South makes up the overwhelming majority of the armed forces who protect our country and are willing to take a bullet for these ungrateful and derisive jackasses. The South accounts for 35% of the population, but 41% of the military recruits.

• A conscience about race relations. Johnson states, “The South has never denied its role in perpetuating slavery. The South and only the South have apologized profusely for its role in slavery.” Since the slave days, “black income in the region has steadily increased, neighborhoods have been integrated, black politicians have been elected to major offices, and black business people have emerged to head national corporations. In the south regional patriotism trumps race any old day.” And if the South hates blacks the way the way your lesbian US History teacher says they do, then why, according to the 2003 US Census Bureau, are hundreds of thousands of blacks blowing off the North and moving down South, huh?

• A sense of morals and religion. The fact that we haven’t flushed God and Christ down the toilet, as the anti-Christ secularists want us to do, has made the liberal, tassel-shoed Nancy’s have a hissy. When other sectors of our society are shamefully caving to the godless cabal’s secular agenda and keeping quite about their convictions, the South sits back, yawns, scratches its belly, and then shoots these glib sisters a defiant rebel finger. In addition, no matter how much the liberal Presidential dopefuls play the “we like Jesus and Moses, too” card in the upcoming ’08 election, the South isn’t fooled. We see the fecal fumes coming off their heads. Serious faith is a southern thang, a conservative thang, and not a 21st century liberal thang.

• A welcoming environment for business. WalMart (the world’s largest retailer), Exxon, FedEx, Coca-Cola, Lowe’s, Delta, Krispy Kreme, Toyota, Honda, Saturn, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes and Home Depot (as well as a slew of others) are finding that they don’t need Rust Belt to rake in the cash as the Bible Belt is working mighty fine for them.

• A creative atmosphere. Clint further prods the north by taunting them with their lack of creativity. He states that, “few folks think about ‘northern literature,’ but there is an abundance of southern literature. There’s no such thing as northern music. I’m sorry, rap is a NY derivative. But then again rap is not music. There is, though, country music, southern rock, southern jazz, southern blues and bluegrass. CJ goes on to say that “there is something about southern lovers, rivers, dogs, ex-wives, ex-husbands, magnolias, pine trees, eccentrics, and soldiers that keep writers and musicians inspired. “

• Real men. “Southern men are gentlemen, but they’re also uncompromising, opinionated, and won’t defer to what ‘the group’ wants. . . . ” America needs men who stick by their guns and southern men do just that. Southern men, saith Clint, don’t flip flop; they stick to the convictions and principles they got from their families. Remember families?

• Real women. Unlike the female chauvinist pigs on the Left, Southern women are charming and ladylike and like their menfolk, they have backbones of steel. Also, note to single guys: from Georgia peaches to Mississippi belles, there’s no doubt about it: southern women are prettier. Since the first Miss America pageant in 1921, one-third of the winners have been Southern. Continued...

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Subject: oh btw...
Just wanted to add that blacks can still have their right to vote challenged because of Bush since he passed on that bill. Also, for a truly free country its kind of sad that we have to have something written saying that blacks are human beings. History will look at Americans in laugh at us in the future, one day.

In a world where your friendly neighbor and Priests rape little boys/girls and female teachers raping little boys and getting arrested for child porn while working at daycare centers, why are we arguing about all this other petty stuff?

Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, when White American soldiers were in Africa they had African girl friends, White slave owners raped black women/had racially mixed kids, black people shoot other people, white people chop up other people, and we want to talk about stuff like the north vs. the south. Anna Nicole Smith's death is all over the news but possibly there's more pressing matters. But that's just my opinion.

Wow, this is ridiculous
This is directed to the original article. I am a well traveled Californian (and veteran of the US Military) and I have lived in various different places across the US as well in foreign countries (now living in Houston, TX). I can say that I can't agree with you on a lot of things that you have stated about 'The South.'

First of all, I'm pretty sure that people are moving to 'The South' because of the cost of land being very inexpensive, not due to morals and religion.
Secondly, there is a lot of other styles of music other than country music, blues and jazz. I don't personally listen to rap but it is a style of music. Just stating that it isn't music shows ignorance and leaves room for 'elitists' to play around. If I said Rock or Heavy Metal wasn't music I'm sure someone else would feel the same way.
Thirdly, women in 'The South' are very nice and lady like most of the time. However, being 'the best' in the US isn't really a fact, more like an opinion. Personally, while I don't mind being in 'The South', but country/southern just women aren't my 'cup of tea.' Very friendly women though.
The men are gentlemen toward women. The people are nice and friendly.
However, lets look at the whole picture. Racism is still very open (better than 10 years ago) and is still a problem. People just don't hear about a lot of things that still go on. If you surfed the internet you'd be surprised.
Another thing is way of life. Eating fried food everyday and hardly exercising is just not healthy (not saying southerners are all lazy either) and going outside in humidity isn't appealing either. The humidity is so bad in some 'Southern' states that theres people I know that live there that go out of state during the summer simply because of the weather. Not to mention flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, catostrophic life threatening thunderstorms and extremist Republicans/conservatives.
I haven't lived in California for almost 15 years now, but I never heard of people dieing from thunderstorms or floods until I moved to 'The South.' Ofcourse California has earthquakes and gang violence but you wouldn't even know an earthquake hit unless you lived close to the fault line and gang violence is in 'The South' as well.
I am in no way saying that California is better, trust me it feels good to travel away from there, but I can't really say that 'The South' is any better.

I guess you just have to look at what makes you happiest. Being around friendly country / southerners or living somewhere else. Since I'm from the West Coast, I'd rather be somewhere (doesn't have to be California) where there's a good mix of music, culture and good weather since I love being outside. I also want to be around places with healthy foods. I don't mind nice country or southern folk but I do prefer living in the suburbs of a big city (ie. San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, etc..) because of the resources. Don't get me wrong, fried food and country cooking is ok, sometimes. But I rather eat less of it and live longer.

Since I come from a two racially mixed parents and like a lot of different foods, I need to be around a big city that can cater to those needs. In 'The South' its really not the same, the food is different. And there is a certain artistic sense and level of sophistication I like about city folk. My time in 'The South' has shown me that most people that are there from different cultural backgrounds try to talk with country and southern accents. I met a guy from Laos (Asia) that tried to sing a country song and walked around with a cowboy hat on trying to talk like a country / southern caucasian and I just think thats lame. When people talk bad about diversity in the south, I think its because of people like that. But like I said, I guess its just up to the individual.
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