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The South is our crazy uncle in the basement..only, we just let him run the household for the last eight years.
Until we blot out this racist, homophobic, xenophobic, loyalist-monarchist taint in our body-politic, this country will never truly realize its greatness. In fact, the only times this country has been great, was when it fought furiously against everything the South stands for, and won a battle or two..but never the war.
Loyalist/monarchist? Aw, someone passed History 301 this semester! How cute!
You left out classist as well, which seems to be a lot of what these problems in this country stem from, and also why people like Helms keep getting elected- not only in the South, and not only by white folks. Ignorant comments like yours continues the us vs. them mentality that permeates both sides of American politics.
The most racist, homophobic, and xenophobic comments I've heard have come from people that grew up and populate Northern cities and suburbs. Statistics show that the most segregated cities are in the North.
Its broad sweeping statements that dismiss whole swaths of our country as sub-human that as we see through the comments, characterized Helms, and in a way, your little diatribe makes you no better then him.
