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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Well, to be fair, I think that you're going to find pockets of the population that hold that attitude in every region, not just the south. And, didn't Obama, when he was campaigning, refer to rural Pennsylvanians (I was one, once upon a time) as "Bitter Americans, clinging to guns and religion"?
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well if you notice.. I qualified my statement by saying that it is everywhere, it's just not as pervasive as it is here.
and calling a rural community as you see it is much different than lumping a whole sublet of society under a racial slur. Bitter Americans is a broad stroke that can encompass all genders and races.. nigger is not. I can't tell you how many times I hear that thrown around here by older generation white males and females in a not "trying to be cool white boy" way. When I see kids following in the footsteps and they are confused it makes me wonder how the south even exists anymore. Farmer Brown makes fun of the Mexicans that are tending his fields while his lazy ass sits in a truck all day, and his son is blasting rap music in his jacked up truck and then gets out and says that the Mexicans will outwork niggers anyday. Yeah that's a whole lot of good manners going around
I wasn't even really trying to get into the racial argument as that's not what the thread is about. My whole point is that while southern people may still say silly things like yes ma'am and thank you etc.. it doesn't mean that the south is more mannerly than anywhere else. It's really all in how you look at things. If a simple phrase makes a place nicer to live and a person can ignore the glaring hypocrisy, then by all means, live there and enjoy yourself. However, to call it more mannerly just seems a bit pedantic to me.