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  • Friday, July 18, 2008 09:48 AM

    Page 1 letters: Southern-but-WASP-ish

    Southern BUT waspish???? BUT??? I'm at a loss for words... perhaps this exemplifies why the !!! think they are 'the people'. No one could be MORE white anglo saxon and protestant than the so-called 'southerns.' This new fangled idiology (sic) regarding southerners be 'scotch irish' is, of course, misdirection. The point of then being scotch irish, in lieu of just plain ol' irish, was that they were protestants. Same culture as the proddie northerners, same crap.

    Now, while Digsby or Bagby, or whoever may have coined the acronym for new englanders, the fact remains: Y'all a bunch of WASPs.

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