Reply #174: Oh, please.

[Marr]

People are responding to the Southerners who want an official celebration of the Confederacy, which is pretty sickening. If you can show me another group of people who want to enshrine racism or treason and are embraced by this community, I'll agree that these Southerners are being unfairly condemned.

As far as hostility goes, I've seen way, way more regional hatred *from* southerners towards everybody else. For some reason, it's considered acceptable. National politicians can refer to the south as 'the real America', GW Bush can condemn his opponent simply for being from the Northeast, etc., etc. Southern politicians use "California" and "San Francisco" as shorthand for evil itself-- and they always seem to get a reaction.

When was the last time you heard a politician use "southern" as an insult?