I'm Canadian, West Coast - "off-white" mixedblood, my wife's WASP.
I've long been fascinated with "The South".. Bourbon, BlueGrass, Memphis, Stax Records, Savannah Ga., New Orleans, The Missisissippi....
I would love to tour through that area, but is it safe there? I'm thinking more about in rural areas, with "good ol boys", klansmen and the like.
I think that's a stereotype, but my wife is from the East and she thinks otherwise - she claims the hicks in the sticks can be very racist and dangerous.
Anybody from there care to share any thoughts? I would love to travel off the beaten track there but don't want to get lynched or dragged behind a truck or some kind of hillbilly "squeal like a pig" Deliverance scenario.
Is there a lot of segregation? What about fact that we're Canadian? Will they be contemptuous of us? Resent our more Liberal values?
not being facetious.. genuine question.
Am I better off with my stylized "fantasy" of polite romanitic South than the reality?
2006-07-06
08:25:22
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