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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:45 PM Original message |
will anyone in the south ever get a break? |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. No more banjos. |
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zalinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
30. Banjos make you smile. n/t |
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stuball111 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:19 PM Response to Reply #30 |
54. A banjo will get you through times with no money, |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:30 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. How do you know a banjo player has perfect pitch? |
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stuball111 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #57 |
63. Good one! I knew a banjo player... |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:03 PM Response to Reply #63 |
92. How do you tell if a banjo players stool is level? |
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The Midway Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:55 PM Response to Reply #92 |
98. Hey, banjo wise crackers...last I checked |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:19 AM Response to Reply #98 |
174. Hey, lighten up... Pete is a good friend of mine. |
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The Midway Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #174 |
191. I'm chilled sufficiently perfessor |
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stuball111 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 01:53 PM Response to Reply #92 |
142. Ever listen to Drybranch Firesquad? |
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HillWilliam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:41 PM Response to Reply #92 |
186. How do you slow a banjo player down? |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. my impression |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
76. Unlike you, I REFUSE to fall into "either/or", "black/white", "good/evil" garbage bin. |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:55 PM Response to Reply #76 |
91. I can accept that |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. I say to those that you speak of |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. I am down here too, and know many people who worked their butts off for Obama |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. Wait . . . what? |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. no bashing from me |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
160. And there were NEVER any southerners who were against slavery, or Jim Crow laws. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
164. No bashing? Then you say the South wanted to secede to preserve slavery. |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #164 |
179. They were fighting to preserve slavery |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 02:27 PM Response to Reply #179 |
194. "That reeks of spin so obvious even the blind can see it.". With comments like that |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yes. After the Rapture. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Yeah, I laughed. nt |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. He hee |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
61. Don't you mean after the RUPTURE? n/t |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
163. Would someone please tell me when this Rapture thing is happening. Do I need to mow my lawn |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm not big on "giving the south a break" just for its own sake.... |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. Hold it! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. (facepalm) |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. So, do you actually believe you are being bashed because you worked your ass off last fall? |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
10. Unfortunately, the deep south still seems determined |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
181. why the deep south consistently elects |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
11. I feel your pain. I lived in VA a LONG time. I'm not a redneck, or even a southerner. nt |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
13. As a Mississippian, I couldn't care what somebody else says. I'm too busy with the stupidity here. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I miss the catfish.... |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
70. Catfishing's good up here on the northern end of the Mississippi, |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
72. Also, check this out: |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #72 |
139. Nice find - thanks! |
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tosh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. There are many who have tirelessly fought the good fight |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
16. Are you defending the south's side in the Civil War? |
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OttavaKarhu (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
39. Uh. It's 2009, dood |
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Strong Atheist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:13 PM Response to Reply #39 |
184. Welcome to DU! |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #16 |
43. of course I'm not defending the souths side of the war |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #43 |
80. But the post you object to, in your link, is about bashing the Confederacy, not the South |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:08 AM Response to Reply #80 |
122. nah it was more just a blow up on my part |
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morillon (809 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 04:24 PM Response to Reply #122 |
161. I've lived in Georgia all my life, and I don't take South-bashing personally. |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
58. Ding, ding ding.....Winner of stupidest post on DU today |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #58 |
75. The competition for that honor is always very stiff. n/t |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
83. "Can you not love the South but hate what they tried to do in the 1860s?" |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 01:42 AM Response to Reply #83 |
105. oh 150 years is NOTHING |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:26 AM Response to Reply #16 |
125. let me put this in a different perspective |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #16 |
166. Are you creating a straw man? He is asking DU not to generalize that all in the South |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 06:20 PM Response to Reply #166 |
171. Do you even know what a strawman is? |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:58 PM Response to Reply #171 |
173. Of course. I will be glad to inform you. "A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 01:17 PM Response to Reply #173 |
182. I think you're just being stubborn |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 02:25 PM Response to Reply #182 |
193. The continued posting of OP’s that are derogatory of the South |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
17. Judging you on your merits A+ |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
19. Being from Jersey is no picnic either ya know. ....n/t |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
22. I know, but we have to keep at it |
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pearl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
23. Bravo to Southern Democrats |
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TX Screwball (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
24. Southern Democrats Will Never Get A Break On DU. |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 07:30 AM Response to Reply #24 |
116. Really? |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. I admire and respect my Southern Democratic brothers and sisters. |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
65. thanks |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
27. I feel your pain. |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Duers need to remember that the was the fighting Texas Dems who |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Thank you so much for remembering! |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Some of us DO |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Glad to hear it! |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. I truly admire them for that gutsy, brave move against |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
28. Ok this is a serious question |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. Well put. To extend the point.... |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
47. you know I didn't say that |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. I am a historian by training |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #52 |
69. like I said |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #28 |
62. And if that happens, how will you tell the "good" guys? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 01:40 AM Response to Reply #62 |
104. You feel threatned by discussing HISTORY? |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:20 AM Response to Reply #104 |
124. Thanks for not answering my question, but nevermind. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #124 |
149. What were you expecting? Branding? |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
29. Speaking as someone who has lived in the South almost all his life, stuff like this doesn't help: |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Ok national stats don't help? |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. No, my fault. I edited it down. I don't mind people bashing the South. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Going over national stats is not bashing |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. I'm not being clear. With stats like this, it is no surprise there is bashing and it doesn't bother |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
40. You're objecting because it's true? |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:12 PM Response to Reply #40 |
49. Sorry, my bad. As someone who is from the South, I don't mind the bashing |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:17 PM Response to Reply #49 |
53. Oh. I misunderstood your first comment. My bad. n/t |
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Neecy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
33. I've lived in every region of the country... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
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DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:11 AM Response to Reply #35 |
106. Excuse me |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
42. Y'all might want to keep in mind how hard it is to be a liberal in some parts of the South. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #42 |
140. Um, that's why the rest of us yell at the south so much. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:00 PM Response to Reply #140 |
144. I guess you missed the part where I mentioned losing friends.. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:03 PM Response to Reply #144 |
146. Good to see we agree on all points then. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:25 PM Response to Reply #146 |
150. It's easy to act superior when you're not right in the middle of things.. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #150 |
153. (shrug) I spent years listening to "outsiders" tell me I was doing shit wrong... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:50 PM Response to Reply #153 |
154. Apples and zucchini.. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #154 |
155. Not really. People who want to learn/change/grow will accept being wrong as one of the costs... |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #155 |
159. and defending whining ass city dwellers is better? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #159 |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:47 PM Response to Reply #159 |
188. What Bloo is talking about has nothing to do with being a city dweller |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 02:36 PM Response to Reply #140 |
195. Why don't you do more to support us? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
44. Of course there are many progressive people in every |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #44 |
60. do you withold and criticise Cali? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #60 |
66. Actually, yes, I do criticize California. |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:06 PM Response to Reply #66 |
74. so we must pay forever |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #66 |
81. Pop Quiz: |
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The Midway Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:14 PM Response to Reply #66 |
93. Respectfully sir, |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
45. Good Point! Thanks for posting. We here in the South really try...and |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
50. What do we need a break for? |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
55. Well since you asked, I'd like |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
56. I reached a boiling point today when Eds sit-in |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
59. I find it interesting that |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:42 PM Response to Reply #59 |
67. I've noticed that too. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #59 |
77. Yeah. This is the only place I ever go where people sit around refighting the Civil War. |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:22 PM Response to Reply #77 |
79. It's really odd isn't it? |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:32 PM Response to Reply #79 |
82. A lot of people only come here to hate, and one pretext is as good as another for them. |
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suzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 04:51 AM Response to Reply #77 |
112. I've never heard the terms "War of Northern Aggression" used in the South as much as on DU. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:49 PM Response to Reply #59 |
89. Best. Truth. On. DU. Ever. |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 08:23 AM Response to Reply #59 |
118. Agreed! |
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LatteLibertine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
64. Ultimately the country is moving in the right direction |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
68. the first step to help is to stop enabling and encourage admission. and... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
71. Here's the deal |
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The Midway Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:42 PM Response to Reply #71 |
94. Interesting post... |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
73. Fuck 'em. They're proof that bigotry isn't limited by geography. |
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suzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:09 AM Response to Reply #73 |
113. That is one beautiful garden. |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 08:51 AM Response to Reply #73 |
119. hmmm |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 11:31 AM Response to Reply #119 |
134. Thanks ! |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
78. I used to bash the south here often....things changed once I actually met |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #78 |
88. I think I love you |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #88 |
99. It just doesn't solve anything, you know? Oh....I have to make an exception to Florida |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
84. Your post is irrational. |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
85. Yeah, I see your complaint. |
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DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
86. as someone who lived half his life |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
87. Yes. Dolly Parton. Everybody likes her. |
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dbt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
90. Certainly Not Here. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
95. abolish nascar, and we'll talk... |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #95 |
97. Watkins Glen hosts it, too. And Indianapolis, Detroit, Loudon, N.H. |
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pecwae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:19 PM Response to Reply #95 |
168. The only place I've ever seen |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
96. Biggest hicks I ever saw were n NY. n/t |
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ArbustoBuster (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
100. Allow me to be blunt. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:03 AM Response to Reply #100 |
120. The only place I ever hear that term used is DU, |
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pecwae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #120 |
167. And they all heard it on |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:50 PM Response to Reply #167 |
170. That's very likely where they heard it. |
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NaturalHigh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
101. I'm pretty sure that the South will always be bashed on DU. |
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suzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:12 AM Response to Reply #101 |
114. +1000 |
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optimal-tomato (243 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
102. K&R |
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JackDragna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
103. No. Not until we're all blue.. |
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TannerBoyle (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:16 AM Response to Original message |
107. Why should you feel guilty over something that you didn't take part in.... |
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The Midway Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 03:24 AM Response to Reply #107 |
108. It is the consequence of living... |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #107 |
127. I dont feel guilty |
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The Midway Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #127 |
165. I did not get that from your post |
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liquid diamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 03:31 AM Response to Original message |
109. Save your efforts or work in a battleground state. The GOP |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 04:18 AM Response to Reply #109 |
111. save my efforts? |
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Lochloosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 07:19 AM Response to Reply #111 |
115. Ditto for Florida. |
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liquid diamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 03:39 PM Response to Reply #111 |
158. We don't need any of the southern states to win the electoral college. |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:07 AM Response to Reply #109 |
121. That's idiotic. |
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Skip Intro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 03:55 AM Response to Original message |
110. That NC flipped impressed me more. I mean, dayum. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
117. If one looks at the state by state election results you see that most states were within 10% swing |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
123. I am in awe of the Blue workers in Red places. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
126. There are racist cretins all over the place. |
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blueworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
128. There will always be a South...and those who bash need bashees |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #128 |
131. "What is a grit"? |
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barbiegeek (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
129. Your Right! We can't win without you :) |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
130. Gary, Indiana isn't the home of the klan. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
132. Jimmy Carter RULZ! |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
133. People aren't referencing people like you in those threads |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
135. Karl Marx on "The North American Civil War" (1861 article) |
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troubledamerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #135 |
148. Supreme Court-appointed President Palin will give the South their revenge. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
136. Deleted message |
PopSixSquish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
137. As a Southerner, I Do So Love Being Lectured on "Our" History |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
138. This is how I felt living in the south, specifically SC, LA, GA & MS |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #138 |
141. The very first time I ever heard the |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:02 PM Response to Reply #141 |
145. I was at a party one time in Cambridge, MA with some doctors I worked with and one of them |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 03:38 PM Response to Reply #141 |
157. bigotry is alive and well up here in the northeast and right wing |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #157 |
190. No shit. In NYC the amount of right wing radio available for your brain cell |
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stuball111 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
143. Sorry we got on the banjo thing, seriously... |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
147. What many don't understand is that it's a lot harder being a liberal in the South. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
151. I feel your pain. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
152. Why take it personally if it doesn't apply to you? |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #152 |
156. I think I have an idea about this....but not from a southerners viewpoint |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
169. OK, I just have to say this, after reading much of this thread |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
172. It's not the South per se. It's Hollywood's obsession with it in the 70s |
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retread (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
175. I can't believe as a politically aware white male you don't encounter the "knuckle |
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timo (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
176. if the south is so bad |
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suzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:57 PM Response to Reply #176 |
177. Old Unhappy Republican Yankees |
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timo (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #177 |
178. huh? |
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suzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #178 |
192. Sorry, I was agreeing with you about northerners moving South, and |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:43 PM Response to Reply #177 |
187. Yeah, most of the carpetbaggers around here are freepers. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 01:24 PM Response to Reply #176 |
183. They are too wimpy to put up with the snow. |
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keroro gunsou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
180. well i for one |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
185. Yeah, when we stop electing right wing fuckhead racists to represent us. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #185 |
189. +1 |
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