Reply #23: No - you're not - in fact, your categorically WRONG. [View All]

[Clark2008]

You're absolutely INCORRECT - speaking of superiority complexes.

Many people from the North treat Southerners like red-headed step-children. For example, just look at the anti-Southern threads on this board: the Great Plains states are MUCH more red than the South, yet, according to some here, you'd think the South hadn't voted for a Democrat since Reconstruction - which is horseshit.

You see it in movies. You see it on television. You see it EVERYWHERE. It's the ONE bias that's OK to have - a bias against the South. We're not any more racist - even less so than a lot of places. We're not stupid, we just don't have to spend as much money to pay teachers and run school systems. We're not toothless or ignorant, either. We have dentists and some of the best thinkers have been from this region.

And, THAT, is how the Republicans muscled their way in down here, if the truth be known. They PRETENDED to side with our values and our attitudes. It's crap - and they still only care about their ultra-rich corporate friends - but they TALKED as though they sided with us rural voters.

What the Dems need to learn is that, if you come down here to talk AT us and not WITH us - we don't want what you're peddlin'.