Another Southern-bashing thread

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It didn't start out as one but it has regressed into one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1786142

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1. And here's another one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1786251#1786333

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2. Perhaps we should compile a response to all the usual crapola

posted about the South here. I have personally lost interest in trying to enlighten anyone who is strongly anti-Southern, because they prefer scapegoating to facts. But I suspect that as a group we could come up with a list of top ten false arguments about the South, and refutations thereof. (Or something like that.) The "Southerners won't vote for Northerners" bull for example; in addition to Reagan, Bush I, Dole, Nixon, Kennedy, Stevenson (against a native Texan), and Truman, each of whom carried several Southern states, we have four consecutive victories by FDR. So in 1932-36-40-44-48-52-56-60-72-80-84-88-92-96 or 14 elections out of 17 this "accepted axiom" has been completely wrong.

On at least ten subjects, such oft-repeated canards about Southerns could easily be shot down with a paragraph or two of evidence. But they would be repeated again the next time anyone raised the subject, so if we compiled and saved a set of arguments against them it could be put into service ever time bashing erupts.

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3. Well, there is the canard that the South

has an exclusive franchise on bigotry.