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Voices from TinfoilHatLand
Rural white America scares the hell out of me sometimes. Why? Because guys like this are regularly put in positions of power, especially in the south.
This guy just happens to be in Georgia, but I heard things like this constantly while I was growing up in Arkansas. I didn't go to church, but I found it no coincidence that the kids around me would assume the cadence and phrasing of a protestant preacher whenever race, religion, or politics was brought up.
My mom will probably instantly rise to the defense of all the decency that is the "true" south, and accuse me of apostasy (she's done it before). But really, was Billy Free any different? How about Mike Huckabee?
I like the south, from a distance. I think it provides a valuable, important counterweight to the loopier "rational" ideas that come from liberal yankees and Californians. In their turn, said yankees and Berkely residents provide an equally valuable service by keeping an eye on the loopy paranoaics which seem to infest positions of power at the state and local levels of government in the South.
However, I'm very glad I don't live in a small southern town any more.
Oh Scott, I refuse to even read past the titles of most of this stuff. This is not Southern it is part of Geo. Bush's right wing conservative Whackos who will go to their death declaring Bill is the Anti Christ. If you will stop and remember the three men I think I despise more than anyone on earth were 1. Nixon 2. Billy Free 3.Mike Huckabee! Two of the three are gone but the Huckster is still around and don't be surprise to see him run for National Office.
These articles or something very them have been circulating since the beginning of the first Clinton campaign. I don't know what causes the incrediably deep hatred for Bill & Hillary. If every politican or man for that matter, my sons excepted of course, who couldn't keep his pants zipped were to leave office there would not be enough people to run the government or what ever.
I know what your reply is going to be and we will just have to agree to disagree!
You will notice I haven't lived in a small Southern town for years and moved back to Arkansas in 1974 under very loud protest. It was your dad's idea to move back home, my home that is. I am glad I live in the South, someday perhaps you will appreciate the differences.By the way you live in a small southern town right now. LOL
Posted by: Pat on January 15, 2003 11:41 AMIt sounds like you are lumping all the hicks in small southern towns into one generic group. In fact it sounds as if you consider the entire southern region of the United States as backward and wrong about most things. Indeed, I have encountered people in the south whose views are quite off. But I have also found off-putting views in all other regions of the country as well as in "big" cities. The crackpot politicians in some large northern cities are really far out there. I have traveled all over our great country in my lifetime and think maybe you're being just a little unfair. But, it's your blog so go ahead and say what you want.
Posted by: Larry on January 31, 2003 10:59 PM