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Subject:	Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 1999 04:45:11 GMT
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Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote: > I've also been all over New England visiting friends and generally enjoying > the area. Perhaps that is what has biased me against the Southern states. I'm not surprised. My wife Rachael lived in CT for 10 years after living in TN for a few years. She's told me loads of stories about basically ignorant northerners who seem to have this vision of the South as being something out of Andy Griffith on the good side and, I don't know, Deliverance on the bad side. She said people repeatedly seemed surprised that she was as far along if not farther along in school than her peers when she moved to CT. Hell, they were surprised we had running water down here. Arrogantly ignorant cretins, imo. > > literally saw white people lean outside of their cars and yell racist > > names at blacks - something I've never seen in the South. > > I've seen this too, in several places in Texas and Utah. I'm sure it > happens elsewhere, too. I've just never seen it anywhere in the North. My wife tells me the northerners hide their racism a lot better than some, but that it's still there in a good many people, just like it's there in people down here in God's country. Me, I'd rather deal with an openly racist redneck than a dishonest yankee bigot, but that's just me. -- Lego Shop at Home: 800-835-4386 (USA) / 800-267-5346 (Canada) www.lugnet.com/news/ - A great new resource for LEGO fans worldwide

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		Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
(...) But somehow, it seems more organized in the South. Take for instance: the KKK, the John Bircher Society, the state of Alabama, etc. (...) :-D How about an openly biased Yankee? I don't know if I can call myself a Yankee, though. I've lived (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 04:45:11 GMT, Mike Stanley uttered the following profundities... (...) We have had a similar situation in the UK recently. There were a few refugees from Montserrat during the spate of eruptions that came to the UK. They were a (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
(...) I've lived in South carolina for three years now, after spending 20 in the north. I never hear the racist crap that permeates the northern culture. I used to hear people use the n word all the time and I've never once heard it here. Maybe the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
(...) Well... Yeah. My parents are from different parts of Texas, I have friends and family I've visited regularly in Texas and Georgia and Louisiana, and I grew up around people from Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. I have lived in (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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