Southern Discomfort

Tim Rogers, mmmm..wow..i guess you just finished your thesis on old southern racist voters. Man, I tell you the most vile and one sides views have come against anti-southern people on here. Ok, so 1st you assume all old white southerners are racist. Wow, how much research did you do on that?...man, tim, that was a rough one...thats a pretty ignorant generalization.

Reply to Charles_ECCA
Wow, are you ever racist, anti-Christian and VERY confused. Oh, did I say paranoid? I agree that this is the most important election in decades. National security, the economy and excessive taxation are the 3 most important issues. Best wishes.

Why is Barack's full name listed, Barack Hussein Obama, while John McCain's is not. If you're going to be fair and unpartial, list John McCain as John Sidney McCain III. The fact that this author is snidely trying to make a point by using Obama's middle name as some sort of scare tactic is disappointing, to say the least. I thought America was a country of tolerance where a man was not judged by his name, but by his deeds. If you're going to try to use Obama's name as a negative aspect of the man, use McCain's full name as well.

Bill M -Again more hate. Seems many of the posts I have read on here blame the South for so many things and you want to get rid of it. Very angry overtones. Sir, no matter your race, region or beliefs I believe you have a right to them. Whats become a danger to this country is no respects anothers opinion or belief. That one thing alone...divides this country. No politics. Do people really believe any one politician or election will change peoples deep down beliefs? I dont think so.

You know what gets on my nerves more than any of this...people saying that they think Obama is the "antichrist". Lol, if he is...what are you gonna do to stop him? Send out some SPAM mail, and post your ideas on comments boards? That'll be sure to stop the Son of Satan! Quit whining and repent already if you are so afraid. And if you are already saved...what are you so afraid of? Heaven is supposed to be the shizznittlebam?! I'm out, this discussion sucks worse than the article.

I have lived in the South all my life. I can't remember a single conversation about scares from the Civil War. I laugh when I read articles like this saying we see ghosts from our past. We are independent minded..........don't like intrusive government.........don't depend on the Government for our rent controlled apartments or our transportation...........and we are CONSERVATIVE! Get over it..........

You know what gets on my nerves more than any of this...people saying that they think Obama is the "antichrist". Lol, if he is...what are you gonna do to stop him? Send out some SPAM mail, and post your ideas on comments boards? That'll be sure to stop the Son of Satan! Quit whining and repent already if you are so afraid. And if you are already saved...what are you so afraid of? Heaven is supposed to be the shizznittlebam?! I'm out, this discussion sucks worse than the article.

CharlesBBCA: wow, for an oldtimer you sure spew alot of hate. Calm down. Many continue to vote is non in their own interest. Read below Charles. How do you feel that if any of these people for McCain they are wrong? Hey, you are voting for Obama, thats your choice, I wont try to disuade you. However, you are trying to tell me for who I vote for is wrong. Why cant you accept the way people want to vote. It seems to me you are against the very thing this country was founded on. Freedom.....including freedom of choice and vote.

I'm sure the author feels a lot better about himself (the Southern boy who escaped the ignorant backwoods and "made good"), like so many who engage in this sort of regional generalization. I grew up in the South too, and I never recognize the one-sided depiction of it I see in trashy, half-a$$ed articles like this one. I write this from my apartment in Moscow. I guess I'm a pretty cosmopolitan Southerner, huh? And frankly, having done my PhD work at an Ivy League school, I always find it refreshing, upon returning home, to find people who are, if anything, more open-minded and just plain friendly than your average New England "intellectual." This sort of stereotyping is just plain stupid: it always reveals the narrow-mindedness, ignorance, and simplistic tendency towards generalization of the author who engages in it, not the poor suckers he's trying to make a mockery of. Physician, heal thyself.

Amazing, they can remember the Civil War but not Charles Keating. I guess when it's somebodies elses money, it does not ring any bells. What they want, and what everyone wants is impossible, and that is every thing gets fixed in his first 4, never happen! It took Clinton two terms to pay off the last deficit, and was and still is the only president to take 2 steps forward and 1 step back, till he stayed in the closet,without his wife! Now we got a deficit that makes the S&L rip offs look like small change, and it will take one party, the same direction, at least 21/2+ terms to get close to debt free. Rebuild America would be a huge start, reto-fit our empty factories, and rock and roll into todays market [no energy charges=good pay and still competive in the world market] and a clean dream to leave our great grand kids. Same dream for everyone not just black or white but all gray want a country the WORLD can be proud of! Beats disgusted!

I was raised in West Texas. We did not consider ourselves a part of the South. As a matter of fact, we considered ourselves aligned with Arizona and New Mexico.

But, we did have many of the same thought processes as in the old south. While we learned and studied the Civil War, I thought that it was boring. I came away with one thought that has survived to today: A country cannot make itself beloved (the unionist North) by imposing itself on the losers (the slaved South). Today that thought has transended to our actions by the current president. Today I think: A country cannot make itself beloved (the American Bush) by imposing itself on the victims of conquest (live your lives our way or you lose).

I think the article hits a lot of the points right on the nail head. When the aurthor points out the missing GOP canditates, that is what I see in my own neighbor here in Colorado. But I see lots of signs for Democrats. Bush really did a number on American pride. Both my husband and I are veterans. Neither of us has any inclination to fly the American flag on any days other than Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

How does that tie in with the South? While the South lost its pride by receiving Civil War punishment for losing that war to the rich North, the rest of the country has also lost its own American pride-identity by laying down and letting the current president force us into subserviant idealisms.

Who will my husband and I vote for? Definately not the GOP if it stands by Bush. Definately not the Democrats if we don't hear something different. McCain? Yes, if her can distant heimself from Bush and the "Good Old Politicians" that guide that party. Obama? Possibly if the retoric can be proven out and if he does have the gumption to put up a good fight against the standard politics that exist in Congress.

As much as I feel the aches and pains if the South, I feel the deep pain fron the loss of pride in America.

Being a president in American means being a world leader, a patriarch, a father to the underpriviledged, and being able to hang in tough and not give in to righteous principles when times get tough.

Is there any question about why a president's hair turns white in only a few years? May we get a GOOD president. Not just a good president, but one who has the backbone to follow through for the good of the country despite what the "party" says that is best for the county.

The election is about race.
This election has been about race since the day that Obama won his first primary. The Dims made it about race. They turned it into a racial event. Obama plays the race card everyday. It's his crutch. He's an empty suit with endless BS lines. He talks jive and nothing but. McCain is a safety first guy. He's boring. There is only one thing new in this election: race. IN PEOPLE'S MINDS race will become more and more the relevant issue everyday until election day. And as time passes Obama will slowly lose more and more ground. And the Dims have no one to blame but themselves. When Whites go to the ballot box the O.J. trial, the L.A. riots, Rev. Wright, bussing, afirm. action, etc. etc., 20 years of TV images of crime, will run through their minds as they punch that chad. Like it or not, this election will become more and more about race as time goes on.

There seems to be such a huge gap in the sensible tone in these posts, in regards to whether people are pro or against Obama.

What does this tell you? I'm just surprised that people can't open their eyes and see this easy and tangible diffrence.

BREAKING NEWS. Obama changes his stance on drilling into America's oil reserves (off shore and Anwar). Go read the headlines. AMAZING. I wonder how the liberal environmentalists will handle this one.