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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 695667" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Okay - not starting a big fight here - but I have to say Witz's description of the south kind of offended me. I'm not from the deep south here in Missouri, but grew up in a town of 150 people in the middle of nowhere and I know rednecks. I've been to the deep south several times (AR, MS, TN, LA, GA, TX, FL) and I have never seen even one skinhead in the back of a pickup truck. The KKK has occasional rallies even in the north and I'm sure they have a greater presence in the south, but I hardly think they're going to be recruiting in a campground full of snowbirds. Do some people still fly confederate flags? Of course. But the majority don't do so because they are racist a-holes, they simply consider it a symbol of the south and probably more do now simply because people say they shouldn't. I've also never heard of anyone thinking blackface is appropriate entertainment in the last 50 years. The religion stuff is just silly. No one's going to give a rat's behind if some northern travelers wintering in a park are religious or not. The south is not crawling with snakes and bugs ready to attack. Sure, bugs are bad in swampy areas and woods. Buy some Off. That's nature. </p><p></p><p>There are wack-jobs everywhere. Heck, the high plains and desert parts of the country have more than one gun-nut militia compound. Doesn't mean the majority of the people aren't decent. </p><p></p><p>The south is a perfectly nice place to visit. If it wasn't, Canadians wouldn't flock there in the winter time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 695667, member: 17309"] Okay - not starting a big fight here - but I have to say Witz's description of the south kind of offended me. I'm not from the deep south here in Missouri, but[I] [/I]grew up in a town of 150 people in the middle of nowhere and I know rednecks. I've been to the deep south several times (AR, MS, TN, LA, GA, TX, FL) and I have never seen even one skinhead in the back of a pickup truck. The KKK has occasional rallies even in the north and I'm sure they have a greater presence in the south, but I hardly think they're going to be recruiting in a campground full of snowbirds. Do some people still fly confederate flags? Of course. But the majority don't do so because they are racist a-holes, they simply consider it a symbol of the south and probably more do now simply because people say they shouldn't. I've also never heard of anyone thinking blackface is appropriate entertainment in the last 50 years. The religion stuff is just silly. No one's going to give a rat's behind if some northern travelers wintering in a park are religious or not. The south is not crawling with snakes and bugs ready to attack. Sure, bugs are bad in swampy areas and woods. Buy some Off. That's nature. There are wack-jobs everywhere. Heck, the high plains and desert parts of the country have more than one gun-nut militia compound. Doesn't mean the majority of the people aren't decent. The south is a perfectly nice place to visit. If it wasn't, Canadians wouldn't flock there in the winter time. [/QUOTE]
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