Reply #159: Hey I want a redneck!

[Taverner]

Where do I get one? :)

Seriously, I have always wanted to go to the South. I know there are many in need and help - and beleive me I am not discounting that. Nor am I discounting Southerners. There is a lot about the South they don't teach in schools such as:

- Union soldiers were cheered when marching into Confederate states. I'm sure many were just trying to get in good with the occupying army, but the Confederacy was a downright fascist, sin-or-swim operation which still had indentured servitude.

- Most "carpetbaggers" were teachers and alturists trying to help a devastated part of the country. These "carpetbaggers" were actually welcomed into Southern towns and given lodging and made part of the communities in which they helped. Most animosity about the carpetbaggers was the fiction of Margaret Mitchell.

- The KKK was and is much more active in Rust belt states than in the South.

- The most violent race riots perpetuated by whites happened in California and Boston.

I could go on, but I'm tired.