My Daughter has to sing this tomorrow

[wuapinmon]

What is so great about the South?

Hot
Humid
Highest concentration of homophobia/racism/religious nuts in the country

Hot is good
Humid is great
I take issue with your third assertion. Racism, race riots, and bigotry exist everywhere.

The South is beautiful
People are nice
People are kind
The cost of living is low
Southern food
Southern girls
Southern accents
Southern literature
Not overcrowded
Excellent wilderness
Endless trees
Walker Percy
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Strangers will talk to you
The places that others revile are usually the best places to be
Azaleas
Dogwoods
Camellias
Rhododendrons
Peaches
Pecans
Mardi Gras (today!)


Utah elders on the mission would never stop bitching about the humidity. I was right at home.....right at home.

[TripletDaddy]

What is so great about the South?

Hot
Humid
Highest concentration of homophobia/racism/religious nuts in the country

Northern Scum.

Beautiful South.

[RobinFinderson]

Hot is good
Humid is great
I take issue with your third assertion. Racism, race riots, and bigotry exist everywhere.

The South is beautiful
People are nice
People are kind
The cost of living is low
Southern food
Southern girls
Southern accents
Southern literature
Not overcrowded
Excellent wilderness
Endless trees
Walker Percy
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Strangers will talk to you
The places that others revile are usually the best places to be
Azaleas
Dogwoods
Camellias
Rhododendrons
Peaches
Pecans
Mardi Gras (today!)


Utah elders on the mission would never stop bitching about the humidity. I was right at home.....right at home.

You will note that I said highest CONCENTRATION of those offensive folks.

As for everything else, I can appreciate the beauty of the land. Maybe you have something.

[KillerDog]

I am Southern.

I was born in Alabama, the #2 ranked Southern state in the country. From there I moved to Georgia, clearly the top Southern state of them all, according to any metric you want to use. I lived there until age 19, a two year stay in Costa Rica, back for another two years in Atlanta. Five years in the lone and dreary world of Utah, and then five years in Louisiana, only fifth ranked in Southerness, but still part of the Confederacy. From there to South Carolina, last in rankings due to sparse population and all those Yankees at Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach, but bold enough to fire first.

I eat grits. I think sweet cornbread and cole slaw are abominations. Coca-Cola is the only soft drink that matters and a pronoun for any other drink; I like Ted Turner; I like "Dixie;" I know all the words to "Georgia on my Mind;" I can impersonate a cacophony of katydids; I know what a crappie is; I get misty when Stonewall Jackson talks to Jim on Christmas Eve in Gods and Generals; I could go on and on.

The South is my favorite place I've ever been.

I have to admit, I was born in Nevada (Battle Born), raised in New Jersey (Yankee), and live in Utah. I have no idea what the hell you are talking about. I don't even recognize some of those words as being American and what does Shoeless Joe Jackson have to do with Gods and Generals?

Southern to me is KFC.

[Surfah]

Southern to me is KFC.

Harmon's Cafe!

[marsupial]

Hot is good
Humid is great
I take issue with your third assertion. Racism, race riots, and bigotry exist everywhere.

The South is beautiful
People are nice
People are kind
The cost of living is low
Southern food
Southern girls
Southern accents
Southern literature
Not overcrowded
Excellent wilderness
Endless trees
Walker Percy
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Strangers will talk to you
The places that others revile are usually the best places to be
Azaleas
Dogwoods
Camellias
Rhododendrons
Peaches
Pecans
Mardi Gras (today!)


Utah elders on the mission would never stop bitching about the humidity. I was right at home.....right at home.

You completely left off magnolias.

[Surfah]

Hot is good
Humid is great
I take issue with your third assertion. Racism, race riots, and bigotry exist everywhere.

The South is beautiful
People are nice
People are kind
The cost of living is low
Southern food
Southern girls
Southern accents
Southern literature
Not overcrowded
Excellent wilderness
Endless trees
Walker Percy
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Strangers will talk to you
The places that others revile are usually the best places to be
Azaleas
Dogwoods
Camellias
Rhododendrons
Peaches
Pecans
Mardi Gras (today!)


Utah elders on the mission would never stop bitching about the humidity. I was right at home.....right at home.

I'm with you on the literature. Flannery O'Connor is my favorite author. Southern Gothic/Grotesque is my favorite genre.

[FN Phat]

Hot is good
Humid is great
I take issue with your third assertion. Racism, race riots, and bigotry exist everywhere.

The South is beautiful
People are nice
People are kind
The cost of living is low
Southern food
Southern girls
Southern accents
Southern literature
Not overcrowded
Excellent wilderness
Endless trees
Walker Percy
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Strangers will talk to you
The places that others revile are usually the best places to be
Azaleas
Dogwoods
Camellias
Rhododendrons
Peaches
Pecans
Mardi Gras (today!)


Utah elders on the mission would never stop bitching about the humidity. I was right at home.....right at home.

Did you ever think that the cost of living is low because no one wants to live there?

[Clark Addison]

What is so great about the South?

Hot
Humid
Highest concentration of homophobia/racism/religious nuts in the country

What is so great about the South? Barbeque.

You should come down here (or maybe, as Tim mentioned, some place that is more properly southern), since there is nothing a Southernor enjoys more than hating a self-righteous and stereotyping liberal yankee. They would love you.

[wuapinmon]

Yeah, I don't have a problem with this song anymore, and I read my words and remember feeling that way, but all I feel now is disappointment in my former self, kind of like reading my journals from when I was a teenager. I love them, but I cringe constantly at how certain I was of EVERYTHING, and how wronged I seemed to feel about things that wouldn't even register with me nowadays.

[Pelado]

I think the song is unnecessarily divisive, does nothing to teach the children of the complexity of the situation (she was chosen to be the person to be arrested), is grammatically incorrect in several ways, and these are first-graders.

First graders. I can't decide whether to be offended, upset, indifferent. I can't decide whether to tell her to not sing it. I can't begin to tell her why.

The line, "White man on the bus" just bothers me. My house does not allow racist talk and points out to my kids why such behavior in others isn't Christlike. And then the government-sponsored curriculum gives us this shit.

Watched an episode about that on Drunk History. Pretty interesting.