Grow up? Open your eyes
Originally posted by digitalgiant
I dont like your comment,,I live in the south and we are not all bigots. And the south is not stupid. I can say this because am northern by birth and southeren by choice. Grow up
I live in the south as well, been here since birth, thanks much.
No, not everyone in the South is bigoted. But that hardly means that everything is just peachy like many people like to think.
Comparatively speaking, the South is stupid (or "less smart") though. Look at standardized test scores, rate of college degrees per capita, &c. The evidence supports me. [1] What other state in the nation has CUT funding to public schools (K-12 and higher-ed) 6.2% across the board and refuses to redo an archaic constitution that is the very prevention of giving more funds? [2] Is EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the South is stupid? No. But the collective whole is, especially when it does nothing to remedy the scores of problems in existance.
If the South is as great as you say it is, why do 90% of the white people in my school wear shirts that are pro-confederate, pro-segregation? [3] And I'm in one of the more "integrated" towns. Or perhaps you would prefer it that way, being segregated?
You'll recall that my town's university (Auburn University) was recently well known for racist actions with regards to fraternities. The South has also been the birth of people such as Senator Lott [4] or Chief Justice Moore [5]. If people vote for known bigots, they ARE bigots. When I say "the South" I mean the collective majority, NOT every single individual. [6]
There is a reason I plan to move away from the South as soon as I can afford to, although I will miss the sweet tea. [7]
Open your eyes, the South is not that great, far from it.
[size=small][1] Your poor usage of grammar and spelling don't exactly help your argument.
[2] A profesor at Auburn that I know recently observed a history class at a rural school about an hour from my town. The history teacher teaching WWII as "World Ware Eleven". The current constitution of Alabama has almost 95% of all tax revenue earmarked, with very little of that going to schools, and no allowance for tax re-appropriation.
[3] I say this being half-caucasian myself. On the t-shirts specially, recently one school system was noted for having banned certain shirts of these types (not all) based on the offensive racist and descriminatory views they held.
[4] Yeah, the USA would be better off if we were still segregated. Whatever. People like this do not need to be in government, except, they get there because the people of the South continue voting them in.
[5] "The State of Alabama can execute homosexuals if it sees fit", in reference to the adoption case of child whose drug-addicted dad was given custody over a well-off mother, simply because the mother was currently in a lesbian relationship.
[6] That's like saying "Those Spanish-speaking Spaniards" Not everyone there speaks Spanish, even people born there, especially in the Basque country. However, the COLLECTIVE mass of Spaniards do speak Spanish. No one would get mad at me if I said "Those Spanish-speaking Spaniards", now would they?
[7] How people can drink iced tea without sugar is beyond me.[/size]
The one thing you left out is that most likely everyone here is addicted to something extremely closely related to an amphetamine: caffeine. 
