Fuck the South

1. PLEASE.someone remove all the “fucks”and print this where the whole fuckin’ country can read it.not only true,but,very amusingly stated.

2. Actually, it needs more “fuck”s.

3. Tedious, lazy and a complete generalization of the south. Is anyone really surprised. He should be more concerned about why states like North Carolina have blown the entire northeast’s economy away. I’m a democrat and I always thought we were the party that didn’t make blanket statements about any group. Oh, I forgot, southerners are the last acceptable group to stereotype.

4. WOW, what can I say? That pretty much sums up some Northern attitudes about Southerners. As a Southerner myself and a career military man, I have routinely been subjected to cultural discrimination (many of those from less educated Northerners) because of my accent and southern upbringing. It’s really sad because these are so many good people in all parts of this great nation. There are many times that I am embarrassed by my fellow Southerners due to their feeding into Northern to make a quick buck (i.e.; Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy). I am a self described white southern liberal who has dated outside his race many times. I have only voted Republican in 1 of 6 presidential races in my life so maybe I’m a bit biased and not the norm. The truth of the matter is that Dr. King got it right: Judging by character and not by color is the right way and should apply to this discussion. I don’t think all people from New York are rude and sarcastic as I have many dear friends from there and not all of us in the South just dumb rednecks bent on marrying their 1st cousins and following to the beat of Rush Limbaugh. I hope that the writer of this post reconsiders his rant because while some of the facts that are mentioned are true, they seem to be overly focused on the negative. I did my B.S.B.A. from Touro College in New York. Lol!

5. Iowa allows gay marriage. California, the (bankrupt) glorious blue state, does not.

   Good luck making it without the food, oil and armed forces of the south. Next time someone flies a plane into one of your buildings, say “fuck you, leave” to members of the armed forces, because a disproportionate number of them come from the south.

   Good work, bash them for fighting for state rights (and incidentally, slavery), then you go on to judge people based on where they were born and stereotypes. Just for fun, Abe Lincoln was a huge racist. The North wasn’t fighting for slaves’ rights. Relax and hop off your moral superiority throne. Wait, where have I heard that before…

   Yeah, the “North” founded this country, but in case you didn’t notice, the South is FAR MORE in line with the ideals and principals on which this country was founded. Small government, free markets, individual liberties- you might remember that from your superior grade school history class. Unfortunately, people in the north aren’t smart and responsible enough to be trusted with their own freedoms, so they have to restrict and regulate everything from guns to healthcare. Yeah, Northerners are literally too irresponsible and./or stupid to be trusted with a weapon. Think about that next time you bash the South for something

   While you were hypocritically running around with a holier than thou attitude bashing the south for being holier than thou through stereotypes, you might want to take a minute to realize your farts don’t smell like roses. Cocaine? Other hard drugs? Jersey Trash? Rude and arrogant Northerners? (Gee, where did that one come from?) Clusterfuck corrupt wall-street executives and investment advisers? Let us not forget the GLORIOUS guidos blowing out their hair, taking steroids, blowing out their hair drinking their MUSCLE MILK and living at home with their mom. Oh, look at that. Idiots live in the North too!

   However, the absolute best part of this was how you referred to southern as being “holier than thou” and “morally superior” while you proclaim your superiority and bash them based on stereotypes.

   And this is why, when I am out of the North East, I am embarrassed to tell people I’m from New York- people associate me with ignorant, hypercritical, pretentious, ethnocentric fools like you.

   Grow up,

   A thoroughly embarrassed New Yorker.

6. Sounds like you have a lot of fucking anger, and need to take it out on other fucking people. I’m rally glad you got this forum for your vitriol, and even more glad what with a finger tap of my mouse, you are gone. Read Jimmy Carter “An Hour Before Sunrise” if you want a different view than the one you are trying to burn into the minds of others.

7. Well I have to say that it’s really true about what I said about New Yorkers in my earlier post. There are some really cool people there! I know how Embarrassed New Yorker feels when I see our own Idiots here saying stupid things that feed the stereotypes that get tossed around like some of those from Disgruntled Massachusetts Voter and let me say out loud we have them here in the South as well, those like Disgruntled Massachusetts Voter. What I will say is this: all regions of this great nation contribute in their own substantive way to all shared prosperity. Without the North East, our financial system would not be envy of the world (not to mention the Arts heartland of our nation). The South with its agriculture, military, and manufacturing capacity and the Midwest with its massive farming that can feed the world (it’s where all of the developing countries send their farmers to learn new ways to do it better. The west with its military, cattle ranches, movie stars and natural resources are what foreigners see as our National Personality. This doesn’t adequately describe all but I hope it demonstrates that we are “a people” and not sub-groups bent on hating each other. Our enemies would Love to think they can divide us by the way and this feeds their stereotypes. I know this as the military has taken me all over the world. I really appreciate what Embarrassed Northerner brought this discussion. The truth is we are all much more alike than our accents and customs would have some believe.

8. Remember, guys. This was written the week after Bush got re-elected in 2004. It’s venting, it’s hilarious, and it’s fuckin great. God bless the northeast and its big mouth. Better to shit-talk than to shit-think and be mentally constipated.

9. This is a very old article. I first saw it right after George Bush was re-elected. At that time a map of the red & blue states resembled the battle lines of the civil war.

10. actually, that’s how west-siders feel about east-siders here in the state… just sayin’…

11. Unbelievable that the Stranger would edit the original (at fuckthesouth.com ), and also leave out the links, which are the best part of this hilarious essay, in my opinion.

12. “‘Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes.” Massachusetts est. 1620, Virginia est. 1607.

    Read a history book dickhead.

13. United States est. 1776 in Pennsylvania. Your point?

14. Yep, we should have let them secede when they wanted to. Their racism and arrogance — towards the President and all of us millions who voted for him — are beyond offensive. They all make me sick (with the possible exception of Northern Virginia, North Carolina and New Orleans)…TIME TO BOYCOTT THE SOUTH — MONEY TALKS. WE AVOID SPENDING OUR MONEY ON ALL THINGS SOUTHERN. We DON’T TRAVEL THERE. WE CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE…RACISTS AND FASCISTS. WE’RE DONE.

15. A Generalization of the south? Obviously. (Leave it to the Stranger, my old neighbors in Seattle, to go over-the-top with Op-Eds!)

    As a proud southerner and ex-Seattlite of 9 years, who swears his love of both places equally, the premises of “F**k the South” are so ridiculous that it negates some of Seattle’s own nefarious past.

    The fact that in both the Southern Cascades and the Northern Rockies, have moved the majority of White Supremacists in the country, should raise an eyebrow. To be fair, these numbnuts chose the PacNW due to its wide open spaces, where one can hide out, hunker down, and ferment their paranoia unchecked until they become some of the area’s most favorite form of criminal, mass murderers. In the last 40 years, they’ve moved to the area to escape the mid-west and south, where more and more minorities, women and *EEK!* liberals have taken charge or are making inroads.

    But, let’s not stop at 40 years; lets go back to the depression. Just 4 counties south of Seattle on I-5 lies the sleepy twin cities of Chehalis and Centralia in Lewis County. The predecessors of companies like Weyerhaeuser were lacking in workers to clear cut the new frontier of the Southern Cascades, in order to rip out and destroy old grow trees so erosion and toxins could build up in the streams.

    So, what did they do? “Say, let’s go to North Carolina were many loggers are impoverished and out of work.” Why not? The lumber companies of NY had completely decimated the Appalachians so that they looked like a desert, so of course folks needed a hand up! So the left coasters packed up their trucks and drove to Mount Airy: polluted swimmin’ holes, pig sties, hillbillies!

    But, even by western standards, findin’ all those good ole boy’s up n’ dah hollers was a might tough. After tryin’ Elks, Eagles and “Odd Feller’s” Clubs, they tried the organization that boasted more than just “a -few- good men”….they tried the (drum roll maestro please) John Birch Society! The lumber companies promised them acres of rich land in exchange for meager subsistence pay a company store (which like all, gouged them) and a hovle to live in. (If the Okies had only known how welcome they’d have been in Washington State, they’d never had gone to California after the dust bowl!)

    They land they got was flood plain bottom land. Summers were great for growing, but come autumn – yer flooded, so don’t build there! But, with thousands of acres between them, they knew they coould eek out a living on crops – particularly -after- the depression and WW2. What happened after WW2? Eisenhower built I-5 using public domain to take land from them for I-5. No problemo: there was so much land to be had, the government simply traded them land further off on high ground, with their frontage -on either side of I-5!-

    Up went every form o’ business along with land values, making the John Birchers and their decedents instant millionaires – which they remain to this day. Gone are their southern accents. Now they are civic leaders, padding their millions hidden in UBS accounts. The John Birchers were and are basically a more legitimized version of the KKK. The main difference is that instead of a scowl and a hand gun pushed into yer yeller belly, they smile, extend a hand and tell you that as an American, you have a right to die if you don’t buy into their Limbaugh/Beck belief systems, and leave it at that. They have booths at county fairs, bake sales with the ladies auxillary and gun shows just to balance the whole Holsum Bakery style charade.

    Down in Lewis County, they still have the habit of ppolitical corruption, raping the land, public policy and keeping down those who oppose them. They also have the habit of displaying and using their own good ole boy network to grease palms.

    The next time you drive down I-5, stop at exit 76. You’ll see a billboard with Uncle Sam on it and some epitaph along the lines of “US out of the UN” or “Divest in the commies at Evergreen College” (one of their favorite targets.) or “procecute Mothers who abort their babies” and other such backward thinking mindlessness. All courtesy of the used car dealer underneath it – a John Bircher. In fact, there are more John Birch society members living in the PacNW than anywhere else in the US.

    In conclusion, the south no longer boasts as many conservative crazies as it used to – oh, we have our share. But, we statistically produce more PhDs, more writers and artists than any other region of the country. My resident state, Virginia, put Barak Obama over the top.

    Go into the Hills around these parts of VA and down into NC, and you find, like in the rest of the country, quite a few red necks and specifically confederate flags. In fact, the family down the street, who are directly descended from slaves who once worked the property they now own, keep a confederate flag up every day.

    We southerners love grits n’ red eye gravy, cows tongue, ocra, chittlins and the plentiful supply of venison from deer that are so over-populated that 10 times as many are road-kill than could ever be hunted, at current rates. We like country music, sure. But, we also love blues, jazz and rock n’ roll: all of which are southern inventions. We love our hills, shores, lowlands and the outdoors much more than the city, even if we -live- in the city. But, we also love the fine and performing arts in our states that spend more on the arts than most others in the country. (At one time Mississippi, the poorest state, spent more on arts funding from both public and private sources, per capita, than any other state.)

    So, if conservatist extremism is the criteria to determine that we should “F*ck the South”, ya better “F*ck the Northwest” first. Ergo, the next time you hear banjos playin in the distance, don’t think of the south; think of driving along beautiful Route 20 cutting through the mountains from I-5 all the way to Yakima. Remember folks, if you’re abducted while hiking the Cascades to “squeal like a pig”, if you value your life.

    Philip, now living in the Shenandoah mountains, known as Northwestern “the Freestate” Virginia.

16. I gotta say. I read fuckthesouth right after the second Bush thingy and it gave me some reassuring solitude. After sitting through the incredible Democratic shrinking spine decades of the 80’s. Then seeing Southern Baptists in charge of the Executive Branch and taking over leadership in both houses of Congress in the 90’s, I couldn’t get behind the Democratic Party of which my own political independence had slightly more faith. Seeing John Kerry attacked as elite while “plain-talking”, the guy you-could-sit-down-and-have-a-beer-with dipshit grabbed another destructive 4 years as top-dog of our country.

    There was very little to be proud about through most of this decade. As David Broder said about Clinton, but somehow, along with the legion of deaf, dumb and blind journalists who hypnotically or hallucinatingly tripped through the mid-90’s and continued through Cheney/Bush, absentmindedly couldn’t see just how “He came in here and trashed the place, and it wasn’t even his place to trash.” applied so aptly to the Cheney/Bush years, the “Fuck the South” Rant provided me some comfort.

    Sure, the Reagan deregulation years and faux Conservative fiscal responsibility and brief experiment with 19th century trickle-down econ. not to mention the endeavor into illegally selling military equipment to an enemy to fund coups in Central America didn’t apply to the South very much, but like fellow Californian Nixon before him, Reagan used all the political tools to exploit the stereo-types of the South to whip it up to his advantage for maximum support and usher in the shit of the 90’s.

    And then we had to live with the shit.

17. Fuck yeah. Hear fucking hear!

18. Ummm well I agree with you on some things, however being a girl from the south. The south isn’t that bad. Hell yea I want to leave, but there are some advantages of living down here.

19. I was born and raised in the South, and let me tell you it’s not all stereotypes. Course, I was raised in one of the most crazy, fundamentalist towns in the South. Some parts of the South are crazier than others, some aren’t too bad. I don’t think Charleston is bad, but there are certain towns, enclaves, etc., that truly are full of John Birchers and the KKK. Hell, we had both organizations in the little rural farm town I lived in. Every week, one of the member made sure to write in the paper. But, I suspect the fundy crazy thing is not just a Red state thing any more. A lot of them have moved to traditionally blue state areas like CA and WA.

20. Okay. Let’s think about this “fuck the south” bit for a moment.

    I should start off by saying that I live in Arkansas and consider the area I live in Northwest, AR, to be more tolerant than your “fuck the south” rant doles out.

    I know it may seem to you that the south is a shit-hole, but for every story of idiocy here there are the same number of similar stories north, east and west. As a true progressive I must say that the tone of the piece is a huge overstatement.

    Believe me, I understand your frustration with some elements of the South, but trust me when I tell you that you are incorrect about the whole of the South. Even Blanche Lincoln is finding out just how many liberals and progressives live in this state.

    By the way, Arkansas is not as far south as you can get you know.

    Just remember there are many, many, many good people here who do not share the old values or the backwoods ideals. Just last week a boy from West Fork, Arkansas refused to stand to or recite the Pledge of Allegiance until gay rights become equal to heterosexual rights.

    I’m just hoping that you understand that even in your neck of the woods ignorance thrives.

    Peace,
    Mark (thepoetryman)

21. People with values, common courtesy, manners, etc. Come from the south.

    There not rude, pushy, run there mouths without backing it up, you are as cold as the wheather you live in.

22. love it, love it, love it. i am a born and raised charlotte nc resident. i have dealt with the southern religious, god’s wrath republicans my whole life, many members of my family. this guy makes great points across the board about my peers. having visited boston for work frequently over the last twelve years i totally understand his over usage of (fuck). do not uses this as a judgment on the writers intelligence. the most brilliant people i have ever met in business have been from Boston and San Francisco. its no wonder they hold the two technology centers in the united states. ok, i await the gay references. (you are predictable)

23. I grew up in Boston, but have lived in the south for the past 18 years. Statistics don’t tell the whole story. All the major cities in Georgia voted for Obama, and black and white people canvased together through the neighborhoods during the election, driving people to poles, and baking cookies for people working the phones.

    The problem with the liberal elite is that they are politically correct, but not streetwise. They don’t understand what it means to be poor and struggling, but they know how to solve poor people’s problems. They are out of touch.

    As for the south: right now, in Savannah Georgia, my daughters go to a public montessori school with a plethora of gay teachers and fifty percent white and fifty percent black kids. They are living in a much more diverse world than I lived in when I grew up in Somerville Massachusetts.

    As for founding fathers: Jefferson Davis and George Washington were southerners. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia are the original thirteen colonies.

    Why not spend some real time in the South before kicking us out of the union?

24. To the Disgruntled Massachusetts Voter… Its better to keep your mouth closed and appear to be an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt.

    “In Dixieland I’ll Take My Stand”!

25. Hey – listen – the Northern states were just as racist as the southern states in the mid 19th century – and the civil war wasn’t about slavery – it was about state’s rights – before you radically criticize a group of people please do a little research first, or you are just as ignorant as any racist in the world – and remember – New York at the end of the 19th century was way crueler to the Italian and Irish immigrants than the southern slaveholders were to the Africans – they had somewhere to sleep and food on the table – the North left the Irish and Italians out in the street and let their babies die because they couldnt afford milk. All slave babies got milk…so don’t be too hasty with your criticism because the south isn’t the only place in the world where ignorance exists…its everywhere – you cant escape it.

26. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOLE. I WILL BE PRAYING FOR FOR YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. THAT IS WHAT OUR MEN AND WOMEN ARE FIGHTING FOR YOU YO EXPRESS YOUR OPINON.

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    The people who actually have power in any highly established government/corporation of any country, (and by this I mean the few at the very top layers of our social structure, those in a position where money has no meaning and is mearly a tool of control over the herd) can do what ever they desire. We then have to pick up the pieces. Yet sadly by the time transparency is achieved over a matter, BANG – a new event unfolds. americans have had the worst brainwashing/indoctrination on the planet (it seems to me anyway) hence this sort of thing is unimaginable to most americans, yet the rest of the world have known for decades.(think of all those american flags that have been publicly burnt, these people dont just burn flags in their spare time for a laugh I can assure you.) Think about it.
    
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    but as they say never know until you try it (i’m just a tiny little fish with some really big sharks trying to eat me just trying to stay ahead of the game and warn others) i care thats why i share.

28. People, read what “Like2no2” and “Seattle can learn something” posted and chill out.

    I’d just like to add that, in the end, what this guy was railing against was the double standard in which Southern stereotypes are considered the handiwork of elitist, baby-killing heathens, while stereotypes of us Northeners are thought of as pretty much on the mark. OK?

29. Damn; as a Southerner, you make me (and I’m sure every other Southerner who reads this) extremely embarrassed I am not part of, and envious of the “fucking northeast liberal elite.” Your ignorance is truly astonishing as you seem to be a part of the “fucking northeast liberal elite.”
    Though I am a conservative, and I suppose ignorant because of that fact, just as you have explained in this article, I do beleive that it is true that the 42nd president of the United States, and that the 2000 democratic Presidential candidate was Al Gore. As Gore is from Tennessee and Clinton is from Arkansas, I would believe I am right in stating that they are both are from the South.
    Also, on another note, I would believe I am right in stating that many of the founding fathers were from the South. In fact, I believe George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson are all from the South. Even during the Civil War, the infamous President Abraham Lincoln was, in fact, from the South, as he was born in Kentucky and considered himself a Kentuckian until death.
    On another note, the Northeast is home to seven top ten states in terms of federal debt. In fact, your beloved Massachusetts is first on that list…..This is obviously a result of the northeast “building and supporting” the South though.
    It has also appeared to me that many people from the northeast vacation in the South. I am sure you are against this, and I am curious as to why they would want to come to the South if it was sooooo bad. I will take it on you to stop this trend, as northerners vacationing in the South puts money that should be in the north’s economy into the South’s economy. You should get them to vacation instead to the New Jersey coast,or the Vermont coast, or Cape Cod. I have heard those places have wonderful weather during the winter, as long as their isn’t a blizzard. I have also heard that the New York bay has some of the best swimming water in the country. Thank God liberals care so much about saving the environment.
    I am sure I have made countless mistakes in this response and I will leave it to you to correct them. Once again, I am just completely ashamed not to be a “fucking northeast liberal elite.”

30. Haha!! This is simply superb, dont alter a single word…just reading it acts as a brilliant vent for the average northeasterners pent up frustrations! Just what I needed! :oD

    4030lisa

31. #5 is wrong!
    The history of the Civil War, and the reasons for Southern rebellion, all have their roots in slavery and the Southern Elite’s wish to keep them (to protect their revenue streams, cant beat free labor)…they were also in fear of being murdered in their sleep by those newly freed slaves (long live John Brown). ‘States Rights’ have always been the ‘thinking-Southern-man’s’ impotent excuse for the conflict…but this argument fails just below the surface becasue why? What rights were those states trying to keep? Thats right…slavery. Try as you might we southerners cannot wash away the horrible past with a clever lexicon. And I don’t care if Lincoln was a racsist (which I don’t believe) he freed the slaves so who gives a shit!

32. OK, I feel like I have to weigh in here. I’m from the Midwest, but have lived in the South and now, D.C. No, D.C. is not a “sleepy Southern city”, the District votes 90%-92% democratic. Having said that, I lived in the Northern Virginia suburbs, and got to know Virginia fairly well. I think I saw one blogger who correctly pointed out that the FIRST English settlement was in Virginia, not Plymouth. In fact when the Mayflower hit the big rock, there were 11, yes ELEVEN settlements in Va. In case you missed it, Jefferson and Washington were both Virginians. Yes, , Southerners. I’m an active liberal, but please, get your history right.

33. I live in Northern VA…born and raised. I don’t think people who reside here really consider us a part of the south at all. In fact, we’re a world apart from the rest of VA. There’s even been talk of forming a separate state with DC. In a hypothetical splitting of the country I highly doubt northern VA would go along with the rest of VA…that is if VA would even go along with the south at all at this point. We were a blue state in the last presidential election.

34. If anyone who is reading this thinks that this is a literal interpretation of what the North thinks of the south is just incorrect. What I think this was an attempt to do was to rant about the Southern Republicans who seem to be against everything that Our President Obama tries to accomplish in the name of not wanting the government to interfere with their lives. It was to poke fun at the Sounthern Conservative agenda. I don’t think it was intended to include all southern people. It was funny and clever and was needed because we in the Northern Blue states are tired of Republicans telling us that we aren’t American enough and don’t have American values!!!

35. AWESOME. And I’m a native Texan. Ole big hair Rick Perry wants Texas to SECEDE. Go-ahead I say. Fuck off.

36. Thaaank you.

    Truer words were never spoken. While they are pounding it up their ass, do you think they can stuff Sarah Palin & the rest of the Republican party up there as well?

    Because that would be just delightfull.

37. BRA-FUCKING-VO!!!
    When I heard that 70% of all Federal Entitlements go to gun totin’, book burning, red-states I just laughed.
    Those shiftless inbred, confederate layabouts prancing around as proud as illiterate peacocks is why our nation is only a shadow of her former glory!
    Whole swaths of this once great nation are teeming with lazy, uneducated inbred confederate bums!
    George W. AWOL wasn’t qualified to preside over a high school class but, because that southern base of inbred losers only looks at where the candidate comes from, we had to put up with 8 years of a retarded boy embarrassing my nation on the world stage!
    Then we had Caribou Barbie boasting to her useless base of sister fucking hillbillies that Alaska was a Real-State and that the states where the Boston Tea-Party, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and The Shot Heard Round The World, to name but a few, took place aren’t really American I wanted to cry at their inbred stupidity.
    Alaska, America’s biggest socialist charity state is the Real America?
    If you really believe that your Mom and Dad were almost certainly brother and sister!
    So, do your useless children a favor and leave already.
    I mention your useless children because here in modern America we no longer have any use for primitive children so, unless you want them sweeping floors or shoveling shit, you’d better launch your own inbred nation where your useless uneducated primitive kids can have a better more fulfilling life being Piggly Wiggly cashiers.
    GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR COUNTRY YOU FILTHY CONFEDERATE TRAITORS!!!!

38. boboday555 – you want us to get the fuck out of your country?

    WE FUCKING TRIED. You responded by sending troops to burn our homes and drag us kicking and screaming back to make yourselves feel better.

39. We’ll gladly leave again. This entire article is ridiculous and based on spectacular ignorance, to the point where I’m not even sure if it’s real or if it’s satire, but one point in particular stands out: the Southern states do get more in federal tax dollars than we pay in federal income taxes, but NOT BY CHOICE. The only reason we receive so many federal dollars is that you “blue” states have crammed so many social programs down our throats that we simply don’t have the money to pay for them. If it was up to us, there would be no federal reserve, no social security, no farm subsidies, no medicare, no Obamacare, etc. We would be just fine without all of your nanny-state programs and we’d have plenty of money left over to pay for our roads.

    I hope that more Southern people see this article so that we can get them motivated to actually leave. I’ve wanted to live in a free country all my life.

40. Awesome! Then I don’t have to worry about you retiring here? And take your grandmother back too.

41. Most Southerners and traditional Americans would love to leave the financial and spiritual bankrupt socialists in MA, CA, NYC and DC FOREVER! Maybe we should secede again or a better idea maybe we should just kick out the cess pool of corrupt politicians and the governments (including the Feds) of these states out of the union and go back to The Articles of Confederation without the debts and burdens of these corrupt entities.

42. http://www.thedailybell.com/1053/Thomas-…

    Dare to have a history lesson? Read this article then go buy his books.

    One more thing, consider yourself lucky to have been born at all. Have you traced your roots? Were your ancestors soldiers? Are you proud of your heritage and family traditions? Would you speak this way in front of them? I hope you answer no.

    Whether your family fought for the north or not, is irrelevant. I feel a deep sadness that this is their legacy. This nasty diatribe from a supposed fellow human being.

    Be ashamed of yourself. They certainly would be. And that goes for all that can not voice their opinions without being a filthy and uncaring person toward the populace of part of your own country. A person who can not fashion an argument without resorting to name calling and foul language truly represents themselves as a simpleton.

    As a Southerner, I feel a deep sorrow for the loss of the northern soldiers who were tricked into fighting for a tyrant such as Lincoln and his ilk.

43. Dr. Thomas James DeLorenzo

    http://www.thedailybell.com

    Article entitled:

    Abraham Lincoln US Authoritarianism Free Market History

44. First of all, the heart of the author of this article, is so lacking in virtue that in battle, it wouldn’t surprise me if he wouldn’t be the first to receive a bullet in the head. “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.” He is no leader of any cause, truly a wicked man.
    The 13th amendment freed the slaves, not Lincoln.
    The 14th amendment created a Corporation out of the United States. We ALL became SLAVES because of it.
    Our Nation, today, is not a socialistic or Communistic government, but a combination of both and it is now governed by what is called “corporatism” This far greater a threat than any our Constitution has to deal with. It is ruthless and it’s scope is world-wide… It’s buSINess as usual… Only POWER matters and what they can STEAL from everyone…
    The cause of the SOUTH is the cause of us ALL!!
    The South was the only Consitutional government this country ever had and Lincoln knew it, that is why he INVADED the South.
    Lincoln was the beginning of the end of this Republic’s Constitution. He was no hero…
    I feel for the subdued and truly lost North.
    They believe everything they are told, especially those packed in sardine can, multi-level hi-rise communities who have absolutely nothing and can not live without the government or they will certainly parish. There is only SLAVERY for them…You must DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD!!
    In corporatism, it is CHEAPER to kill a million than to support them!!! That is BuSINess!!!
    That is why they allow the Mexicans and Muslims in, so we can save them the trouble of being active in thinning the crop.
    Now, if we turn our attention to not only those two groups but, the Corporate elite, the real source of all our problems, FREEDOM from Government control will be ours and our Constitution restored.

45. Wow, what an ignorant opinion of a beautiful part of the USA. The Civil War (aka: The War of Northern Aggression) was NOT over slavery. Yes, slavery was an issue but it was more over the States Rights.

    Question: If it was about slavery, why did Lincoln release ONLY the slaves in the states where he had no authority, namely the CSA? The ones in the northern states (including Mrs. Lincoln’s) remained slaves.

    Did you know, Mr. Ignoramus, that there were BLACK slave owners? You really need to do a little research of history before you spout off.

    Also…if secession was illegal, explain West Virginia.

46. I wish the person who wrote the article was here right now so I could beat them to death. But I guess that person is just a pussy, because they are hiding their identity. Liberals are pussies! Come get some; let’s have another civil war and see who wins this time.
    
    [edit: Name removed by request. – webmaster]

47. Being from South Carolina, let me say we were here at the beginning. And the South would be a better place if not for the ongoing constant immigration (illegal) of people from ‘up there.’ and as the bumper sticker says, “we don’t give a fuck how you do things up North.”

    Oh, and show some balls by putting your name on the rant.

48. You make the South’s points every time you open your mouth and allow your ignorance to pour out (along with all the other garbage you insist on shoveling)! There is much truth to the axiom, “give a fool enough rope and they will hang themselves”. Thank you, anonymous, for being the perfect object lesson for this fact. Cowards, wimps, and terrorists are the only ones so ashamed of their actions and utterances to go by the title of “anonymous”.

49. Who wants to have a convention in New York? Thid is one of those libertatd idiots than doesn’t know history very well and makes up for his lack of intelligence with a toilet mouth.

50. WOW how can someone be so ignorant I guess just his vulgar language shows his true intellect

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