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Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:22:25 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Me, I'd rather deal with an openly racist redneck than a dishonest
> yankee bigot, but that's just me.
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 people in the south are more polite, or maybe its because i'm
in a university town, but I just don't see the open racism.
In fact, (and this horrified me) my sister goes to a small catholic college in
Pennsylvania and is dating a black guy. She constantly gets stared at in
restaraunts and the like. One day the Klan left thousands of flyers all over
the school and town saying how it was immoral that the college had black
basketball players and how any white girl who dated them was a whore. I hate to
be explicit but this was the meanest, dirtiest propaganda I have ever heard.
She called me up in tears, she was so upset. I just couldn't believe that this
happened. Even her boyfriend had never seen anything like that before. When I
think uneducated, I don't think southerners, I think of this kind of trash.
Patricia Schempp
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