The South lost the Civil War. When will these Confederate-lovers learn to assimilate?

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23. Look at "our" voting record

And the fact that you don't see pickups everywhere with racist symbols in New England, on the west coast, etc. So, generalizations can be made. I don't take offense about it because I hate these yahoo racists as much as anyone here.

Of course there are pockets of very liberal, intelligent people in the South. And we southern libs tend to be even more fervent politically than the rest of the country. There are many of us here on DU since we require such havens because of our closeted status here in R-land.

Yes, I also don't like people assuming that we're a homogeneous, inbred, ignorant racist block. But I think most DUers know we're not. Besides, I also trash southern racists all the time myself.

(And, btw, this closeted atheist hates those 60' crosses stuck on hills everywhere too.)

- an E. Tennessean born Virginian coming back home to our beloved Smokey Mtns.