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animalracer reminded me of something when he said rodders and surfers used the iron cross because it was a cool symbol, no more, no less.
He reminded me, I think it was the blue deuce 3 window on the beach boys album that had a swastika, the nazi symbol, on the blower pulley. I think it was even in a magazine like that, and then everyone made a big fuss (it wasn't even 20 years after ww2) and it was quickly removed.
I try to stay in the south because my kind is not welcome elsewhere. I went to Vegas over the summer. I got some looks with my accent, but I just kind of blended in, cuz after all, it is Vegas :LOL:Quote:
Originally posted by suedeplymouth
I salute the stars and bars. Our flag does not represent "slavery or any other liberal crap", it was battle flag. Most people forget that the north only "freed" the slaves two years into the war with the promise they had to settle in the south.
There is still slavery in africa but it is blacks owning blacks, so no one cares. Theres rampant cannibalism in the congo since they started governing themselves. No one cares. Ive had a friend killed in south africa because he was white, but thats politically exceptable because he was a white.
The world has gone into reverse rascism, and the worst possible thing to be right now is white southern male. I get hell all the time over talking like a texan. An okie buddy of mine is always made fun of. This world has just gone to crap.
Anyone else want to restart the war of northern aggression with me?
I head out to Morehead City, NC every year. I get along pretty well around there. Went to St. Maartin a few years back. My accent wasn't as strong then, so I didn't stand out. About anywhere I go, my accent is called attention to. It is a mix of dialects. Around these parts, 20 miles will give you a different accent. Mine's a mix of Morgan county redneck, Knoxville sophisticate, and Oak Ridge guy. Add to that the fact that when I get pissed I start sounding like a guy out of Georgia, almost no one can lay a finger on where I originate. But that accent screams "southern drawl," so anywhere outside of the south I'm not really welcome. With the southern accent people automatically assume I drive an old chevy pickup with a gun rack. When they look at the clothes I wear they think I must drive a sporty economy car, judging from the slightly corporate edge to casual wear. I was raised with two totally different outlooks on the rest of the earth's population. My mom's side wants me to love everyone. My dad's family is southern stock, and they come from a time when ... well lets just say the views wouldn't go over so well outside the rural south. I pulled out of it an attitude that I don't judge by the color of skin, but more by your treatment of others. I judge each by his own merits. I think it works well, because I have Mexican, Black, Chinese, Native American, and East Indian friends, just to name a few. There is just too much of a stigma against my type to leave the comforts of home. I could pretty much travel anywhere east of the Mississippi and south of the M-D line and be relatively welcome. If I wanted to be really welcome, I would have to stay in East Tennessee. The rest of the south doesn't like Tn too much. But I totally agree with you about the world going to pot. I tend to ignore anything that is not on my continent, unless it has to do with nuclear warheads, then I get worried. I would go along with you on the war of northern agression, but for a few problems. If we started it up, it wouldn't be the war of northern agression anymore. More like "the war of southern spite" or some other catchy name the northerners came up with. The civil war was one of the bloodiest conflicts in the history of this country. I don't think ANYONE really wants another one. Who wants to end up killing their own brother? I like the idea, but I am afraid it would only create more problems than solve any. What would the south really be standing for this time? The only thing that separates us from the northerners now is a few antiquated ideas that are viewed as wrong by half the world anyway. Who is going to support a fight for southern heratige? The main difference between yankees and southerners now is hospitality. I think most yankees wouldn't give anyone the time of day if they didn't think they were getting something out of it. With southerners we still pull over for a funeral procession, still help out strangers, still pick up the occasional hitchhiker, you see what I mean? Yankees will pass the funeral procession on the right, tell the stranger to go to hell, and invite the hitchhiker into the car then rob them. The yankees I have had the occasion to deal with are not at all pleasant. They invade our homeland because it is warmer and cheaper. I say go to hell. It is a little warmer still and an eternal stay is granted if you are short a few good deeds, so it is cheaper than the south in the long run. I have yankees on both sides of my family, and I am afraid they have been rubbing off on me. I think I got most of the vocabulary and intelligence but tried to keep the southern tradition. Tell me if you decide to start the war back up, though, I'd love to right a few wrongs.
"Most people forget that the north only "freed" the slaves two years into the war with the promise they had to settle in the south."
That is quite familliar for me... :P People often forget about history, what happend in the past and that's why they ofter tell bullshit.