What in the world are these Trump people so mad about all the time?

[Aristus]

48. I was born and raised in the South.

But yeah, I have a love-hate relationship with the South.

I hate the fact that I was raised on the myth of Robert E. Lee as the gentle, grandfatherly general who hated slavery but loved Virginia.

I hate the fact that I was nearly an adult before I realized that the defenders of the Alamo, legends of San Antonio, my hometown, weren't fighting for freedom; they were fighting to expand slavery into the West.

And I hate the fact that the South is a solid, unbroken band of red.

I will count the day that Texas, my home state, turns blue as one of the happiest in my life.

I have a brand-new colleague, an ultra-liberal, staunch advocate for the homeless, who was born and raised in South Carolina. He moved to the Northwest in order to escape, well, South Carolina. We've spent a lot of time bonding over our sad affection for the troubled region of our birth.

For all of the racist places in this racist country of ours, the South is still the place where that racism underwent the thickest, most-nearly impenetrable institutionalization.