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Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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Date: 
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:47:51 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
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.

But somehow, it seems more organized in the South.  Take for instance:  the
KKK, the John Bircher Society, the state of Alabama, etc.

Me, I'd rather deal with an openly racist redneck than a dishonest
yankee bigot, but that's just me.

:-D  How about an openly biased Yankee?

I don't know if I can call myself a Yankee, though.  I've lived most of my
life overseas in the Marshall Islands, and given the choice and someone else
paying my way, I'd probably go back to live there again.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
Darth Maul Lives



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  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
(...) Yup. Sure hope I'm not sounding like I defend racism of any kind, but something in me would rather be able to point out the danger zones easily than to bump up against them without some kind of warning. (...) Heh, dunno. I've met a handful of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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