It seems that the same American people that are so anti-racist and politically correct feel that it is quite ok to be bigoted and use stereotypes toward white southern Americans while they would never dream of thinking it was OK to behave this way toward anyone else.
I realize that there are so many stereotypes associated with southerners but does that make it true and ok? Aren't non-southen Americans smart enough to look beyond the television influence. I have traveled a lot and in all actuality, I have seen just as many rural, poor, uneducated, racist, and ugly people in small town America all over the country as I have in the south. There is just as many isolated rural small towns and farm lands in states like Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, New York (and many other states), as there is in the south. The people there seem just as rednecky, hillbilly, toothless, uneducated, unrefined, and less worldly as they do in any remote area of the south. So what's the difference?
2007-04-19
03:07:58
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cj
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