Reply #15: anti-"southerner" is just anti-"confederate..." it is healthy as...

[expatriot]

...long as people don't turn it into anti-lower class white.

I think what this country needs to counter the conservative 'southern' culture is a revitalization of "Yankee pride."

To me the 'Confederate' or 'Southerner' ideology epitomizes one of the great lies and crimes of 'conservative' culture... that is the ability of the upper classes and the elites to recruit the lower-class into a backward ideology (to identify with a race, an ethnic group, a theocratic notion of the nation, etc.) and therefore these lower-class conservatives become the henchman of the highest classes.


So when I say I am against 'Southern' ideology, this is what I mean. I am not against grits or mint julips or banjos playing in the bayous, I am against the baggage associated with it.