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• Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:17 AM

  And yes, this is the middle finger from the Southern GOP

  I'm from the Midwest. I now live down South (Georgia). Observations:

  1. Midwesterners/Northerners, like anyone who won a war, don't really concern themselves much with the goings-on of the South. The South is like your dim-witted cousin that you keep inviting to holidays because your Uncle Sam would never forgive you if you didn't.

  2. In school in the North, we learned that the main cause of the Civil War was not slavery (although it is a morally abnominable institution) but economics.

  In contrast:

  1. Like most losers, the South (by this I mean white Southerners) is fixated on a war that happened 150 years ago. They are *still* suspicious of Northerners, the educated, black people (OMG, Obama is all three!)

  2. Southerners are taught that the Civil War was fought mostly because of slavery and the Damn Yankees' wish to impose their moral standards on the entire country (irony is not well understood here).

  Mix this all in a pot, and yes, this is a big F-U from some Southern Republicans. And I bet every single one of them gets re-elected, because regional schism and hate still sells down here. It jsut doesn't wear a white hood anymore.

  PS. Case in point: There is a Ford dealer in Hardeeville, SC, (outside of Savannah) running a radio ad in which he disparages "foreign-made" cars.

  —plays_with_squirrels Read plays_with_squirrels's other letters
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