With their confederate flags, secession in support of slavery, Southern Baptist Church (created out of support for slavery) , opposition to women's rights, opposition to civil rights in the 1960s, and the last states to finally get rid of their anti-interracial marriage bans. Alabama didn't get rid of theirs until 2000.
Why is it the South always the last place to get with the times?
Why is it so conservative/fundamentalist with respect to the rest of the country?
2007-03-30 06:53:00 · 23 answers · asked by soldier_of_god 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
"What makes you so sure your way is right?"
HISTORY. Different groups have different beliefs about social issues today, but history shows us that there are certain things most people today agree is wrong that people in the past were split on.
For example, most people today believe slavery was wrong, that women deserve equal rights, and that people should be free to marry outside their race.
These views were in the minority in the past and it was christian conservatives (especially from the South) who opposed these changes.
2007-03-30 07:01:24 · update #1
Slavery ended 150 years ago, bro.
Name one women's right to which they are opposed?
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2016-10-01 22:53:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well how about this. We like our slow paced, contry lifestyle. I grew up in a very small country town and never have seen the tings you are accusing the south of. I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church and in no way did they support slavery. Just because we like our simple lives does not mean that we can't keep up with the rest of the country. Besides if it such a bad place, then why are so many people from the North moving to the South.
I love my Southern accent!
2007-03-30 07:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by tngirl1320 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
States Rights meant something to the South. The Civil War was the most bloody, dramatic war of our history. It caused some deep wounds, and I think it caused them to be defensive about change. They were slow to implement societal change, but they did.
You can sit in California and rag on the South all you want. I don't think you've been to the South. Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, etc. These cities are huge. Californian, my home state, is full a bunch of snobs who always think the country revolves around them.
2007-03-30 07:05:19 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all started when a man named Abraham Lincoln threw out the Constitution and declared war on the Confederate States, formed by a legal secession from the Union.
Linciln and most Northers were more racist that the South. Lincoln only wanted to end slavery so he could deport the Negroes out of the country.
Jim Crow laws originated in the Northern states where segregation was far worse than it ever way in the South.
The South also resented the Northern Armies tactics, espoused by Lincoln and executed by generals like Sherman who did not distinguish between civilians and soldiers and civilian property and military targets. Lincoln advocated the utter annihilation of the South, contravening the recently created Geneva convention.
The matter was compounded by the North's punitive taxation of the South during the so-called "Reconstruction."
To this day, the South is more integrated than the North ever was.
What makes you think the Northern way of life is any better?
2007-03-30 07:04:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
The old Segregationist South was right. Now the South has adopted these liberal multiculti polices blacks and mestizos are taking over, gangs and crime has skyrocketed and it's becoming California East. One of the last strongholds of the old America is disappearing.
What is it with the desires of self-hating white liberals to destroy everything that has made this country great to appease to third world mexicans and blacks?
The good thing is the Southern good ol' boys are starting to wake up to the rampant black crime and mestizo invasion of the country and, they aren't going to be push over like those pampered White Los Angeles and Bay Area suburbanites.
Better watch your back ******, because the Klan's getting bigger!
2007-03-30 08:19:08 · answer #6 · answered by thetruth_00 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am from the North. I am not at all embarrassed about the South. North,South East or West we are all part of the same Great Nation.
2007-03-30 06:57:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You want to see some bigots?
Go to Boston. I've lived all over the country, North, South, East, West, and there are no bigger bigots anywhere than in Boston.
2007-03-30 07:04:26 · answer #8 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People are afraid of change. They will delay the process and procrastinate as much as they can while they can. Thats the human nature. This does not make anybody an embarrassment though. People are what they are and we need to learn to respect.
2007-03-30 07:00:43 · answer #9 · answered by gabicha_mc 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm more embarrassed with what comes out of California recently, than what has happened in the past with the south.
2007-03-30 07:00:04 · answer #10 · answered by Jedi 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋