The "Let's Talk About Dixie Being Southern" Thread

[Jarod]

Dixie, you and I may disagree on plenty of topics, but we are both southerners. That means there are certain attributes applied to us regardless of the truth of the matter.

Its just easier to see all southerners as a cross between rabid rednecks and Andy Griffith.

Let'em dwell in their pseudo-reality.

Ive not been accused of being anywhere between a redneck and Andy Griffith!

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Ive not been accused of being anywhere between a redneck and Andy Griffith!

Somewhere between a retard and Goober???

 

[Airstrip One]

War Eagle! And being a Son of the South myself, I can tell you that we are not all affilcted with being steriotyped.

So, some of them can spell, then?

 

[Airstrip One]

Sorry, I didn't realize you were a foreigner, where are you from?

I've honestly never thought of the South as being part of the US. When I think of America, and its regions, I pretty much think Northeast, Plains West, Mountain West, Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest. Then the giant iceball that is Alaska. Then the tourist destinations of Hawaii and Florida. Then the territories.

 

[Banned]

Ohh yes Dixie is southern. He is not racist however he does not think that blacks and whites should marry.

My memory is not gone yet Dix.

 

[Phantasmal]

I've honestly never thought of the South as being part of the US. When I think of America, and its regions, I pretty much think Northeast, Plains West, Mountain West, Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest. Then the giant iceball that is Alaska. Then the tourist destinations of Hawaii and Florida. Then the territories.

Hey, it isn't a giant ice ball all the time

 

[Banned]

They could have become real people, and moved up North to God's country.

they did, they moved to Michigan. Look what happened

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Ohh yes Dixie is southern. He is not racist however he does not think that blacks and whites should marry.

My memory is not gone yet Dix.

Only problem is, I never stated anything remotely close to that at any time in my life.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

they did, they moved to Michigan. Look what happened

Who moved to Michigan? Are you even following the conversation?

People lived in the south, who did not own slaves. IN fact, the VAST majority never owned a slave. Most of the non-slave-owning South, was dirt poor and unable to uproot and move their families across the county line, much less the country. And just what the fuck do you Einsteins suppose might have happened, IF millions of Southerners descended on Michigan or any other Northern state? I suspect, it would have been much like what happened to freed blacks in 1919, who tried that. As I recall, the benevolent black-people-loving yankees, slaughtered thousands... riding through black neighborhoods, killing every 'darky' in sight, whom they feared would steal their jobs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer_of_1919

 

[Airstrip One]

Most Southerners planned to buy a slave, the way people nowadays plan to buy a house and a nice car.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Most Southerners planned to buy a slave, the way people nowadays plan to buy a house and a nice car.

Sorry, that is just not true.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

I've honestly never thought of the South as being part of the US. When I think of America, and its regions, I pretty much think Northeast, Plains West, Mountain West, Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest. Then the giant iceball that is Alaska. Then the tourist destinations of Hawaii and Florida. Then the territories.

This is a testament to how much of an intolerant bigot you are. What you think, is simply incorrect, and based on your own ignorance.

 

[Airstrip One]

The South is the antithesis of Americanism.

 

[Airstrip One]

Sorry, that is just not true.

Absolutely 100% the truth. This is the finding of historians who have studied American slavery. Slaves were an expensive investment, the way cars and houses are in the modern world. Back then, people lacked access to the financial institutions and options that allow so many people to pursue their dreams, so most Southerners lacked the ability to store up enough capital to ever purchase a slave, but they also recognized that an attack upon the institution was an attack on something they would lack to invest in later on down the road.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Absolutely 100% the truth. This is the finding of historians who have studied American slavery. Slaves were an expensive investment, the way cars and houses are in the modern world. Back then, people lacked access to the financial institutions and options that allow so many people to pursue their dreams, so most Southerners lacked the ability to store up enough capital to ever purchase a slave, but they also recognized that an attack upon the institution was an attack on something they would lack to invest in later on down the road.

No, it's not true, it's your dreamed up bullshit based on some other bullshit you read somewhere, but it's totally NOT the truth. Most Southerners did not own slave, only 2% of the population owned property. Slaves were essentially useless unless you owned a cotton plantation, and then it took a few more than ONE to run it. So, no... Southerners didn't one day dream of owning a slave. There may have been a few who dreamed of one day owning a plantation with many slaves, but again, MOST Southerners were more concerned about where their next meal was coming from.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

The South is the antithesis of Americanism.

No, YOU are the antithesis of Americanism... tell us, what other stereotypes do you believe in and base your bigoted prejudice on?

 

[Annie]

The South is the antithesis of Americanism.

Right, because the North was so welcoming to blacks, right? Not.

Truth of the matter is on a day to day level after the Civil War, blacks and whites in the South continued to work side-by-side. No, it wasn't fair. Sharecropping and the rest.

Then again, for the blacks that ventured North? Segregation in a way they'd never experienced. Few opportunities to work and poor education opportunities for their children. Look at Boston, Chicago, Harlem.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Right, because the North was so welcoming to blacks, right? Not.

Truth of the matter is on a day to day level after the Civil War, blacks and whites in the South continued to work side-by-side. No, it wasn't fair. Sharecropping and the rest.

Then again, for the blacks that ventured North? Segregation in a way they'd never experienced. Few opportunities to work and poor education opportunities for their children. Look at Boston, Chicago, Harlem.

Oh you ain't seen nuthin yet, Annie.... wait 'til he starts explaining how he blames the South for that as well... you see, Abe Lincoln had planned to segregate free blacks into 'burroughs' away from the whites, and if we Southerners hadn't messed up the plan, we'd have never encountered all the integration problems!

 

[Airstrip One]

Right, because the North was so welcoming to blacks, right? Not.

Truth of the matter is on a day to day level after the Civil War, blacks and whites in the South continued to work side-by-side. No, it wasn't fair. Sharecropping and the rest.

Then again, for the blacks that ventured North? Segregation in a way they'd never experienced. Few opportunities to work and poor education opportunities for their children. Look at Boston, Chicago, Harlem.

The blacks who ventured North had it much better. Look at the Harlem Renaissance.

 

[Airstrip One]

No, YOU are the antithesis of Americanism... tell us, what other stereotypes do you believe in and base your bigoted prejudice on?

You are the one with a foreign flag as your avatar Dixtard. A foreign country whose troops attacked a US installation and initiated a long war against my country. I should say that constitutes a summary of un-Americanism at the very least.