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In reply to the discussion: I'm from the south. [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)214. Welcome to DU!
In case you haven't noticed, fights over who is the "better" liberal are practically a daily occurrence on the DU.
Try being a liberal somewhere liberals are roundly hated by what seems like everyone.
For instance, I'm an atheist as well as a liberal and I have never knowingly met another atheist. I have a family member who routinely gives me a hard time about my atheism and I ask them if they could be a Christian if they had never in their life met another Christian, they have yet to answer that question.
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what you just wrote doesn't have anything to do with what I pointed out in my...
AlbertCat
Oct 2013
#63
I condemn the South because I lived there for some years and I know southerners. Granted
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#31
I condemn the South because it sends characters like Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham, etc. to Congress.
AlbertCat
Oct 2013
#59
The South also sent John Lewis and Alan Grayson to congress. And I think you'll find a lot of
Erose999
Oct 2013
#78
Yeah, and don't forget that tiny little state of New Jersey, with its 51 hate groups. That whole
Ghost in the Machine
Oct 2013
#230
Per capita Tennessee has 5 times as many hate groups as California and you brag
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#233
Yeah, that's what the other exploding heads went on about, too.. per capita,, blah blah blah..
Ghost in the Machine
Oct 2013
#267
I'll believe that they have changed when Don Siegelman gets out of prison and is sitting in the
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#296
And how does it matter? What is constructive about highlighting those "distinctions?"
Eleanors38
Oct 2013
#278
Yeah, I think we have to go back to trying to win ALL seats, especially now.
Tigress DEM
Oct 2013
#362
At the same time, I think you'll see a backlash against the old white establishment by the young,
Erose999
Oct 2013
#83
i hope you're right, and this is anecdotal on my part, but some of my young, distant realitives from
dionysus
Oct 2013
#179
So your liberalism is better? And what was that you said about idiological arrogance?
Squinch
Oct 2013
#84
I don't think it gets handed so much as it is a starting point - but after that,
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2013
#85
Sure there are limo liberals in the world. But that still doesn't give anyone the right
IrishAyes
Oct 2013
#195
It's late at night and this is starting to bore me since I do not trust the purity of intent
IrishAyes
Oct 2013
#287
BS. You've wasted my time long enough and haven't left the pretzel factory behind you yet.
IrishAyes
Oct 2013
#292
After the Ted Cruz fiasco, after the votes are tallied on vote after vote, what are we supposed to
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#37
Texans pride themselves on their Southern affiliation. They are right next to Louisiana and
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#126
Good luck. Liberal Southerners are heroes, not scum, but unfortunately, liberal Southerners
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#208
Texas rebelled against Mexico because of slavery then rebelled against the USA over slavery
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#144
Whatever you say, tell it to John Lewis as he's a southerner too. Hell, so is Hillary C and
Erose999
Oct 2013
#88
If you'd ever been in Boehner's district, you would know that part of their problem is that
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#127
Bohener's district is Cincinnati, right? Thats hardly Gerogia or Tennessee. One might say that citie
Erose999
Oct 2013
#170
Ohio has the "accent line" and southeast Ohio identifies with the South as does WestVirginia nowdays
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#180
My extended family are from West Virginia. They get more snow in one day than we get in 10 years,
Erose999
Oct 2013
#318
Hillary was born in and raised in Illinois and went to Wellesley and Yale
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#152
You forget Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky (let's hope we get more Democrats there)
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#124
Actual conservatives aren't Tea party but Southern states are proud to send scum to DC
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#159
To whom do you think you are speaking? You are, supposedly, making a point about
Squinch
Oct 2013
#143
Apparently you have to be born in the South to earn it. Personally, I was born to conservatives
Squinch
Oct 2013
#61
I call regionalism 'Place of Origin' bigotry, expanding the term to include the spirit of the law.
freshwest
Oct 2013
#18
I lived in the South a number of years. I think the bashing is perfectly justified.
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#39
When Southerners stop electing jerks like Vitters and Sessions and Lindsay Graham, the Pauls, Ted
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#106
So you are judging the South on your experiences living here before MLK's "mountaintop"
Erose999
Oct 2013
#90
Didn't you make an OP just recently wanting to send everyone in the South off to
cordelia
Oct 2013
#248
Could you please be more specific aobut what you meant by the "ugly kind of bigotry beneath
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#27
Northern Whites were 3 to 4 times more likely to vote for Obama than Southern whites
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#42
My county in NC and several of the counties around it are very rural and vote consistently blue.
Jamastiene
Oct 2013
#70
TO HEAR ALL THE WHINING FROM SOUTHERN WHITES ONE WOULD THINK THEY'RE THE MOST DISCRIMINATED AGAINST!
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#48
I was born out of the left side of my mothers double uterus and have been a lefty ever since
AAO
Oct 2013
#57
No, but it is very hard to be a liberal when you are surrounded by conservatives. n/t
Jamastiene
Oct 2013
#73
So the liberalism of someone in a conservative area is better than the liberalism
Squinch
Oct 2013
#76
The assumption implicit in the OP and in your post that those from the South are the only
Squinch
Oct 2013
#93
I live in Shelby CO. Alabama so yes i am right in the middle of it and i give them Hell
stonecutter357
Oct 2013
#160
So because others are making judgments about who is the better liberal, so must you. I see.
Squinch
Oct 2013
#270
It's not mentalist schtick. It's called paraphrasing. And it is an accurate paraphrase of your post.
Squinch
Oct 2013
#276
I living in the South now, namely Georgia, but I was born in Philadelphia, PA,
RebelOne
Oct 2013
#62
Plenty of more liberal places to support than Louisiana which whites voted 1 in 10 for Obama
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#119
When the South quits electing bigots every election cycle, the bashing will stop. Until then,
Hoyt
Oct 2013
#100
+1. When a state flies the Confederate flag as its state flag, it deserves ever bit of scorn. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2013
#125
Georgia threw out a good Governor like Barnes because he wanted the State flag to not be Confederate
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#187
Have you ever lived in a small Southern town? The kids grow up aspiring to be prison guards
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#130
"idea that having certain politics makes you defacto more intelligent".Think baggers don't feel that
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#234
I was raised in a small Southern town. None of the kids there grew up aspiring to be prison guards.
cordelia
Oct 2013
#242
It's a thing of beauty here...to see our "perfect Northern friends" sputter
ScreamingMeemie
Oct 2013
#109
K/R and look out, progressives don't like to be called out on their imperfections.
NYC_SKP
Oct 2013
#129
Gee, in the era of the Tea Party shutdown, progressives are being called out for their bigotry
coldmountain
Oct 2013
#141
How could an atheist know about good? How could born Liberal know about___________?
Tikki
Oct 2013
#142
I think you struck too close to home for some (tongue firmly in cheek). Good job! n/t
X_Digger
Oct 2013
#155
Never mistake refusing to accept RW ideology and/or policy as arrogance and bigotry by liberals.
Zorra
Oct 2013
#168
What about accepting left wing ideology that is little more than treacly boilerplate? nt
rrneck
Oct 2013
#319
Could you please post some specific examples of what aspects of left wing ideology are little
Zorra
Oct 2013
#322
You got that and the fact the very nicest people I've met anywhere are have been in the South.
NYC_SKP
Oct 2013
#178
I think liberals are frustrated to see so many people voting against their own best interests.
alarimer
Oct 2013
#188
Which reinforces the point that regionalism only serves to divide and that in turn
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#216
P.S. Here's another song from Lynyrd Skynyrd where they sing against racism.
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#219
"When ideology becomes an affectation it also becomes a product. " This....
YoungDemCA
Oct 2013
#205
I'm from Kentucky and think many southerners are to sensitive about this stuff.
TheKentuckian
Oct 2013
#215
Gee... I dunno, maybe you've mis-classified, I've lived deeply in the south and north...
MrMickeysMom
Oct 2013
#239
Your phrase "I'm from the South" reminds me of one of my nieces who heard that at camp.
AnotherMcIntosh
Oct 2013
#285
I've never engaged in regionalism on DU, because I think it's stupid. It never occurred to me
Squinch
Oct 2013
#309
People use lower case r because it looks like a gun. If you didn't, I was mistaken. But the rest of
Dark n Stormy Knight
Oct 2013
#376
And I love the fact that so many of the people responding are illustrating the fourth paragraph
renie408
Oct 2013
#371
Southern Democrats need a big tent, not a tiny politically correct tent
saynotoplutocrats
Oct 2013
#373