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In reply to the discussion: Please feel free to nuke all of us Southerners...Drop a bomb on us redneck ignart Sutherners. [View all]Matrosov
(1,098 posts)I live in the Deep South. It's amazing how people here can make everything about them. It's not surprising then that some of the southern members on DU think any sort of criticism of the South is also aimed at them.
Of course the South deserves criticism, far more than the North. Which part of the country was it that wanted to break away in 1861 so they could keep their slaves? Which part of the country opposed integration in the 1960s so much that one governor even stood in the door of the University of Alabama to keep two African American students out? Which part of the country routinely dismisses the rest of the states as socialist while collecting more federal aid money than anyone else? Which part of the country features the Bible Belt, full of hateful people that think 1860 was a nicer time?
That doesn't apply to every single Southerner, including those on DU. Let it go already.