Southern Discomfort

It appears that wars leave lasting scars which continue through generations after those on both sides who lived through it have died. We might remember this fact the next time that a bunch of renegades try to panic us into starting another one like the Iraq war. We will some day finally leave that mess and come home. It is a certainty that generations of people there and here will not forget this.
It is hard to argue that the Lincoln administration should have let the South secede. That war was necessary to preserve our union. We still have visible scars on both sides from the conflict.
Now, let's analyze the necessity of commencing the Iraq war. What about the strategy of not starting the Iraq war and instead hunting down Osama Ben Laden as we had properly started to do? The whole civilized world was in sympathy with our efforts to do just that and was ready and willing to help. Instead, we were led by the most errant administration in our history to do probably the most foolish thing that this country has ever done on such a large scale. Vote them and their successors out of this government as soon as you can get to the voting booth. Don't let them get the idea that we even remotely approve of what they have done. We will be paying for this error for years to come.

Here in South Carolina, I am seeing OBAMA '08 car stickers, but have yet to see a McCain one. Southern cities are more progressive and are being infiltrated by people from other regions who are tired of paying high prices for homes when you can have more home for the money down here. I am one of those, and I plan to vote like one, too.

INTERVIEW with Author of The Obama Nation, Dr. Jerome Corsi, Ph.d

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdFs6hjPnyw

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgaGFITnTAQ

See The Obama Nation book description of its contents in my post below.

the Jethro Nashun;
Gap-toothed, inbred, uncivilized, violent and hopelessly dumb as ditchwater. No class of people with less honor. Less dignity. No one more ignorant. More gullible. A primitive breed with prehistoric manners, unfit for anything beyond petty crime and random bloodletting. There stunted subhuman minds are mesmerized by cheap alcohol, Lotto fever and the asinine superstitions of their foot-washin??? faith. They cease beating their wives just long enough to let the little woman squeeze out another deformed crumb-snatcher. They scatter their genes in a degenerative spiral of dysfunction. They breed anencephalic children, mouth breathers like themselves. Vulgarians. ALL. OF. THEM. Rifle-totin???, booger-eatin???, beer-bellied swine in human form. Skeeter-bitten, ball-tuggin???, homo (& Mex.) hating, livestock-screwin???, daughter gropin??? slugs. Hairy-assed werewolves who occupy trailers out near the superfund cleanup sights. Obese curler wearing women standing unashamed in orange bikinis two sizes too small, sloping boobs hung over caesarean scars. Their unwashed, uncomprehending children with cavity peppered chartreuse colored teeth. The scaly pale-gray skin of buck toothed men who huff turpentine chased with dilaudids and Oxy???s. Skull face after skull face of dull-witted peasantry, zit-scarred with filmy yellow eyeballs. Rolling landfills of curdled whiteness. Cat-piss and dirty diapers. Crusty dishes in the sink. Yellowed armpit stains on the t-shirts. Smelly white @ssholes stinking up the nation. They REALLY bring down the race, don???t you think?

Obama sat for more than 20 YEARS in his "church" listening to antisemtic and anti-American hate sermons.
He did not utter a word in protest.

Now, liberals want to vote for this man. Obama is all about hate.

Great article Christopher. Although I lived in Atlanta for a year I know that I really did not learn much about the south during that time. You gave some very interesting perspectives on the south. and I appreciate the quality of your writing.

I'm sure you could not cover every aspect within the space you were given, but one perspective I wish you could have covered more is the Black middle class. It is my impression that the Black middle class, made up relocated Northerners and college educated Southerners are working very hard to get Obama elected. What I've been surprised by in other parts of the country, however, is how many middle class Whites are working hard for Obama. The middle class Blacks and the middle class Whites are working together as I have never seen before in my lifetime. Win or lose I hope that Obama's race for the White House will open the eyes for Blacks and Whites for new opportunities to work together for a common purpose.

I am hopeful that Black and White native southerners will also be a part of this transformation. Blacks and Whites have to respect, but not live in the past, and move towards a better future for the sake of our children and our country. Just like siblings that fight at home, eventually we have to grow up and work together face a dangerous and challenging world.

It is so nice of Christopher Dickey to look down his nose at an entire region of the country and inform us if it's 'faults'.

What a pompous @$$.

A troubled region. Secession didn't work. Slavery didn't work. The South lost the war. The victors burnt everything in sight. Mexico is invading from the south. Northerners are invading from the north. The descendants of the former slaves are about to make a president out of a black yankee Harvard Lawyer. Summer is hot as hell and the price of air conditioning keeps going up. Maybe it'll cool off a little in September and football season will brighten things up before the Old South goes up in smoke in November. A troubled region.

How nice of Mr. Dickey to regale us with stories of his walk down memory lane, gawking at the rednecks and crackers of his sorghum sweet youth. It would be nice if the world???s Mr. Dickey???s had as clear a memory of the history of their northern and northeastern homes.

I moved to the south as a kid in 1959. I came from Illinois and was raised to clearly understand our responsibilities to right the wrongs of slavery and Jim Crow. Even though the Chicago suburb I lived in did not have one single solitary black person living in it. In 1964 I began attending college in my new southern home. One of my friends was from Arkansas and to put it mildly, held strong sentiments which were not consistent with this Northerner???s view of human rights. As the news focused more and more on the efforts to integrate the south he and I had a heated debate where he finally observed that someday the civil rights movement would move north and east. He suggested that I hold my pious tickets until the results were in from that growing storm.

Well as it turned out, my little Chicago suburb navigated its way to smoother waters reasonably well. But as I watched my northern brothers in Boston, Peoria and a hundred other places where sweet tea was an unknown commodity, watched them throw objects at school buses and hurl epithets at innocent children on those buses I realized that I really didn???t need a Greyhound bus ticket to come south and gawk at the ignorant crackers. I could have stayed home in Illinois and observed the debacle in the comfort of my smug self righteousness, pretty much like Mr. Dickey is doing in this article.

I graduated and grew up to live all over the United States. And you know what? Its just as easy to find bigots in the shadows of the Sears tower, the Empire State Building or even our nation???s capital as it is in the heart of the south. Yes, Mr. Dickey is right. The south has a sense of its history. When it isn???t sufficiently self absorbed in that history there are plenty of pundits who will remind us of our history. It is too bad that the guys who are so eager to regale us with tales of our iniquities are so comfortable forgetting their own.