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4 Big Reasons, Plus A Bunch Of Smaller Reasons, Why The South Wont Rise Again (September 29, 2012)
A commentary from five years ago that's worth reading again.
4 Big Reasons, Plus A Bunch Of Smaller Reasons, Why The South Wont Rise Again
First off, let me say up front that I am a Southerner. I was born here, lived here for years, and still live here in the South. I’ve been known to pop out with a “y’all” now and then. The vast majority of my relatives and friends are also Southerners. I am thus well aware that many of us folks here in the South are nothing at all like those stereotypes about Southerners.
With that all said, I realize that far too many of us do conform to some of those stereotypes, and that some of us have this weird fantasy that the ‘South Will Rise Again’ (YEE-HAW!). But let’s be realistic, here: The South Will NOT Rise Again, and if we really think about it, we probably wouldn’t want it to.
Hey, y’all, there are reasons why that dog won’t hunt:
1. Slavery is illegal in the USA: [snip]
2. The South is no longer an agrarian society: [snip]
3. Despite all the re-enactments, the Civil War is over: [snip]
4. The South cannot compete, because it lags behind the developed world in education, health, and other quality-of-life indicators:[snip]
[snip]
The South won’t rise again, because the South is the pits in too many ways, and until we address these issues, it can’t happen. As a Georgian, I am tired of being surrounded by Confederate-flag waving, “Dixie” horn-tooting ignoramuses who cite “being born white” as one of their life’s greatest accomplishments.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not all giant flying roaches and truck nuts down here. But you really sound mentally challenged when you give lip service to the idea of “rising again” and glorify slavery days as something we might actually WANT to return to.
YOU LOST.
GET OVER IT.
Oh, by the way, your “Confederate flag” is historically inaccurate. Idiots.
With that all said, I realize that far too many of us do conform to some of those stereotypes, and that some of us have this weird fantasy that the ‘South Will Rise Again’ (YEE-HAW!). But let’s be realistic, here: The South Will NOT Rise Again, and if we really think about it, we probably wouldn’t want it to.
Hey, y’all, there are reasons why that dog won’t hunt:
1. Slavery is illegal in the USA: [snip]
2. The South is no longer an agrarian society: [snip]
3. Despite all the re-enactments, the Civil War is over: [snip]
4. The South cannot compete, because it lags behind the developed world in education, health, and other quality-of-life indicators:[snip]
[snip]
The South won’t rise again, because the South is the pits in too many ways, and until we address these issues, it can’t happen. As a Georgian, I am tired of being surrounded by Confederate-flag waving, “Dixie” horn-tooting ignoramuses who cite “being born white” as one of their life’s greatest accomplishments.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not all giant flying roaches and truck nuts down here. But you really sound mentally challenged when you give lip service to the idea of “rising again” and glorify slavery days as something we might actually WANT to return to.
YOU LOST.
GET OVER IT.
Oh, by the way, your “Confederate flag” is historically inaccurate. Idiots.
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