Yup. Pretty much any majority white rural area not in the northeast is like this. For whatever reason, I don’t think rural areas in new england are generally this bad (but they have some issues).
Its a white rural problem that affects the entire country.
And I agree. These people have gigantic egos. If you aren’t from the area and haven’t met them, it can be shocking how superior some of them can consider themselves. They view themselves as the hardest working, most independent, most resilient, most authentic people in the country. Which is ironic, since they are totally dependent on the urban areas they disdain to pay their bills and run the society they depend on.
Honestly, the entire narrative is just a scam rich people use to trick them into voting against their own interests. But they eat it up.
Yep. Sweeping anti-southern bigotry is practically celebrated on this board, in a way that would earn a warning or possibly even a banning if the generalization was about practically any other group. (And mean outside The Pit.)
I apologize for the broad generalizations in the OP. I didn’t mean to pit everyone in the south, or course not everyone there belives those things I mentioned. There are plenty of wonderful people there, I know some. I lived the first half of my life there. And I applaud those who are fighting for change.
I wrote the OP after getting into an argument on a Facebook page about my hometown. The OP there had written about all the legislation that has been passed lately, and another guy chimes in with “Watch out Governor, a storm is brewing in the west.” He is a boogalooer. I got into an argument with him and some others about that and other issues, a bunch of conspiracy nonsense and liberals being called every name you can think of. So I came to the Pit to vent and rant.
My main point in the OP was about the electoral college. If the south was another country, Trump might be President there and Kavanaugh would not be on The Supreme Court. We would probably have a ban on assualt weapons and universal background checks and a better health care system and a whole lot of other things.
But of course the south is not seceding. We just have to hope that beliefs can be changed. That is why I got into the argument on the Facebook page. I wasn’t trying to convince those people of anything, I wrote what I did for others that might be reading the debate, to try and convince them.
I apologize for the broad generalizations in the OP. I didn’t mean to pit everyone in the south, or course not everyone there belives those things I mentioned. There are plenty of wonderful people there, I know some. I lived the first half of my life there. And I applaud those who are fighting for change.
I wrote the OP after getting into an argument on a Facebook page about my hometown. The OP there had written about all the legislation that has been passed lately, and another guy chimes in with “Watch out Governor, a storm is brewing in the west.” He is a boogalooer. I got into an argument with him and some others about that and other issues, a bunch of conspiracy nonsense and liberals being called every name you can think of. So I came to the Pit to vent and rant.
My main point in the OP was about the electoral college. If the south was another country, Trump might be President there and Kavanaugh would not be on The Supreme Court. We would probably have a ban on assualt weapons and universal background checks and a better health care system and a whole lot of other things.
But of course the south is not seceding. We just have to hope that beliefs can be changed. That is why I got into the argument on the Facebook page. I wasn’t trying to convince those people of anything, I wrote what I did for others that might be reading the debate, to try and convince them.
So let me see if I understand this. There are a bunch of rednecks in southern state, who want to secede from the rest of the country, and they called their movement “the boogaloo”. Named after a 1984 low budget film,“Electiric Boogaloo”, by two Israeli directors, about break dancing, featuring a large cast of minorities…
I think it would be irresponsible of us not to encourage this. They are literally too fucking stupid to get this figured out on their own.
“Boogalooer?” I would think that a “boogalooer” would be pretty cool. I would look forward to boogalooing with him or her.
Bigotry over hillbillies is still pretty acceptable in contemporary Liberal society. I used to work with a charming anarchist WWI hillbilly girl who was rather resentful about this.
Rest assured you have counterparts in a lot of places (including but not limited to numerous southern and western states) who think that the U.S. would be just wonderful without California and the Northeast.
Diversity is evidently not for everyone.
We just moved to Kentucky (which I’ve always thought of as a border state), but our region seems to include certain Southern stereotypes, including a gaggle of fat deputies lounging around the courthouse metal detector to make sure no terrorists or deranged locals shoot up the place. There are also people with surprisingly lush accents, like the woman announcing specials over the supermarket loudspeaker - “half-price on em and ay-ems” (M&Ms to the uninitiated). We’re having to ask a few folks to repeat themselves to be understood.
Dropping in to say “hi” from the South, where one of my darling little coworkers has decided to decorate the outside of his cube with a large picture of a dead donkey beside the caption “I voted early to drain the swamp!”
Bless his little heart.
The attitudes the OP ranted about exist everywhere, but they seem to be very concentrated here. It’s going to be a long election season. >.<
