Southern Discomfort

mr. kaiser,

your quote"the south is america's pakistan", see thats the most ignorant comment I have ever heard. Sir, if you were in Pakistan you would a) not have internet access b) be living in a hut living on $2 a week c) be killed or imprisoned for your opinion, so lets be real sir. Please get off the train to dilusionville.

Holmeed is what to expect from Socialist Liberals. Sounds kind of like the Nazi regime, doesn't it? Vote liberal and you can kill all the "EVIL BASTARD" southern Republicans too.

hokeypokie you are 100% correct. Remember what Ford said:

"People get the government they deserve" anarchy is coming people

Socialism? You are ignorant. Its a PLUTOCRACY in America. This is everything our forefathers were against. 2% of mostly corrupt, priviledged crooks owning everything. I would rather have real communism than an oligarchy and plutocracy like here. Hey have it your way. Crime will keep rising. The privileged in their gated communties will have stay in them. BLAME BUSH VOTERS FOR DESTROYING AMERICA

And remember ..those who live by the sword....you die by it idiots.. The south ruined America 3 times now. We should of just killed every last man, woman and child after the civil war..... EVIL BASTARDS

Racism plays a part for both sides in southern politics. It hasn't been cool though to court white rasist during elections since the sixties. On the other hand Obama owes his win in the south to his precieved blackness. But we still shouldnt forget the homophobic, zenophobic, misogynist elements two. the south is Americas Pakistan, a hold out of ignorent religious fanatics. Black and white.

As is almost always the case, when the author as well as Earl and Mele Black talk about what Southerners think or want they are really referring to white Southerners. The other Southerners are invisible and matter only insofar as they impinge on the white presence. Therein lies the core of the problem, the elephant in the room.

hahaha, see its great. You (i mean all non-southerners) only see people that dont agree with us as ignorant. People in the south we are open hearing others out at least. If you feel a certain way then go for it. Thats what makes this countrey great. My family has served this country militarily in many forms just so that you can have this opinion. However, many liberals or northerners cant fathom that southerners feel they way they do and that they must just be ignorant. When in reality we just stick to our beliefs and traditions and we dont like to bge told how to feel or what we should believe in, especially someone we cant relate to. The issues southerners relate to and the issues the rest of the country relate to are just different. Ask any true southerner and they will tell you. Yes, there are some liberal thinking southerners, however, they are greatly outnumbered. It would be like me going to New York or San Francisco and wondering why no one agrees with me. Its just our way of life and we love America but dont tell us how we should feel, vote or think.

I can hear it now... If Obama wins in November, the news media will say it is because our nation no longer sees color or race, we have all united now. Racism is over.
BUT.. if Obama loses, these same news writers will proclaim Obama lost because of the ignorant white rednecks who are still racists. and voted against him simply because he is black.

Sue is correct. The Democrats, who ARE the ones in power and have been since the last election, have delivered us into this mess just as they always have. We live in a Democracy and they want us to live in a Soclialist society. Make no mistake about who the enemy is. Mrs. Pelosi of California and Democrats (soclialists) like her need to be deported. By the way, don't site Bill Clinton as a source for Democrats and good ecomony. Remember, the Republicans controiled the Senate and the House during those times.

Flawboy has it right. I can't think of any Southern stereotype that this author left out. I have lived in Tennessee for the past 20 years. I grew up in Indiana and spent 20 years there. Indiana is FAR more racially divided than Tennessee. I enjoy the South precisely BECAUSE some of those stereotypes NOT mentioned by the author. A fierce independence, self reliance, wanting a governement that does not dictate every move you make. The South did not fight the civil war to keep slavery legal. If fought to keep the federal governent OUT of our business. Why do so many "educated" journalist forget this (or choose to ignore it). Now Southerners are fighting the same fight. They don't want liberal socialism to pick there pockets and tell them how they are going to feel about every single issue. They are tire of big government. I am an educated, white, ethnically-integrated marriged, 40 something American who has never felt more accepted or safe in the South. The only place I have felt as safe is California and I don't have to put up with Socialist craming their ideology down my throat. THis election is close because neither Democrats NOR republicans get that people are sick and tired of the governement trying to run every aspect of our lives. Stealing our money to make themselves rich. Fighting over issues of morallity instead of letting Americans make up their own minds what is moral. But ;this election is close mainly because beyond the rhetoric, both parties are only out for their own financial betterment and Americans have figured it out.

well like i said before the story is about the election not the south. Please dont try to intertwine the two. In regards to Ms. Sue Adams your comments are exactly whats wrong with the country. Because not everyone believes in what you do or like you then in your eyes they must be ignorant and they should be ignored or bullied. Ms. Adams your virulent stance only distances America and it only shows me more why I feel the way i do today.

Once again the leftist media establishment wants us to believe that if we reject Obama it is purely because of his race and not because of his total weakness and inadequacy as an individual candidate running for the highest office of the land. This will surely create a backlash in favor of McCain by November.

Flawboy has it right. I can't think of any Southern stereotype that this author left out. I have lived in Tennessee for the past 20 years. I grew up in Indiana and spent 20 years there. Indiana is FAR more racially divided than Tennessee. I enjoy the South precisely BECAUSE some of those stereotypes NOT mentioned by the author. A fierce independence, self reliance, wanting a governement that does not dictate every move you make. The South did not fight the civil war to keep slavery legal. If fought to keep the federal governent OUT of our business. Why do so many "educated" journalist forget this (or choose to ignore it). Now Southerners are fighting the same fight. They don't want liberal socialism to pick there pockets and tell them how they are going to feel about every single issue. They are tire of big government. I am an educated, white, ethnically-integrated marriged, 40 something American who has never felt more accepted or safe in the South. The only place I have felt as safe is California and I don't have to put up with Socialist craming their ideology down my throat. THis election is close because neither Democrats NOR republicans get that people are sick and tired of the governement trying to run every aspect of our lives. Stealing our money to make themselves rich. Fighting over issues of morallity instead of letting Americans make up their own minds what is moral. But ;this election is close mainly because beyond the rhetoric, both parties are only out for their own financial betterment and Americans have figured it out.

The holocaust of slavery? HAHAHA what a fool. This is just sensationalist journalism. Please stop trying to revise history.

Colin Powell lied to us all.

It is obvious that the so called "reconstruction" carried out by the "victors" fully ignored the causes for the southern states to seceed. The southern states wanted to be free from control by those who are not from their area or had their interestes in mind, sending in an occupation force was what they feared the most. The racist ideas of the time were not relegated to the south, but during the reconstruction period they were expanded as the Freedmans Bureau forced newly freed slaves to vote republican which angered the white residesnts. Everything went bad from there and the South has had the stains on its hands ever since. There were more lynchings in the state of Indiana than some southern states like Arkansas, Florida, and Virginia during the latter half of the 1800s and into in the 1930s. The civil war was not fought by slave owners to keep their slaves but by regular people who wanted to be free to do what they choose. There were even slaves and freed blacks who willingly went to war and gave their lives for the south, this article just keeps the stereotype going. Racists are everywhere, the media just likes to have a southern accent on it for show.