# Thank God for Tennessee **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216 "2004-03-19T15:49:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/1 "2004-03-19T15:49:48Z")
With utter morons like J.C. Fugate (pronounced, no doubt as “Ju-ayee See Fyew-gay-ut”) and squalidly inbred dens like Rhea county, I know that there are places that make the most backward parts of my own state look like paragons of progress. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/2 "2004-03-19T16:02:02Z")
I think this non sequitur needs a [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245700). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/3 "2004-03-19T17:14:17Z")
Old news, old news. \ Asa I’ve said before, the dimwits in Rhea County do this kinda crap every year. Makes 'em feel like **big wheels** to see their names in the paper. RL trolls is all. So, DNFTTs. ---
**Author:** ![Becky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@Becky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/4 "2004-03-19T18:07:12Z")
Those people are idiots. Unfortunately, their similary bigoted relatives live in South Carolina. We currently have a bill in the Senate (passed the House!) to prohibit recognition of legal rights for same-sex partnerships. Sweet Jesus on andro, that pissed me off when I heard it on the news a few days ago. I’m going to get myself good and ticked about it again this weekend, and open a can of whoop-ass on my senators (via email, of course). Assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/5 "2004-03-19T19:39:57Z")
Firstly, fuck you for the insinuation that Southern accents somehow equate with the ignorance found in Rhea County. As someone who was born and raised only two or three counties from there, I don’t appreciate your bigoted implications. And secondly, I seriously doubt that your state, even if it’s a progressive haven like California, does not have similarly reactionary counties in it. Yes, the denizens of Rhea County who support what’s going on there are idiots and deserve the mockings they have been getting for their ignorant behaviour but to try to paint them as being alone in their opinions on the matter is … well, just as ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/6 "2004-03-19T20:01:33Z")
**Aesiron** –Howdy from Rutherford County, TN. I have the same opinion of most of the South as **Doggy** , & I’ve lived here for years. Wanna hear me sing fucking “Rockytop”? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/7 "2004-03-19T21:10:50Z")
I feel the same way about the South as a whole as both you and **Dogface** , which is why I left. The only things I was taking offense at were his his or her slams on the Southern dialect as being unedecuted and that Rhea County, by being in Tennessee, is somehow full of in-breds. If you didn’t take offense by being grouped in with the fuckwits in Rhea County by his/her all-inclusive stereotypes, more power to you but I, for one, don’t appreciate being compared to them in any shape, form, or fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/8 "2004-03-20T00:15:38Z")
Who the fuck is Spalding Gray? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/9 "2004-03-20T00:28:43Z")
The only good thing about the anti-Southern sentiment that’s so incredibly pervasive in the U.S. is that it keeps a lot of assholes from coming here. _Ahem._ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/10 "2004-03-20T02:53:34Z")
“Neil Young should remember Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow” Didn’t prop 26 that recently passed in California ban SSM’s or somethin’? Seems lak I heerd that som’ers. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/11 "2004-03-20T13:13:21Z")
And there are indeed residents in Rhea County that have liberal viewpoints. The earlier vote to run gays out of the county has been withdrawn. The next time you hear someone judge a person’s intelligence by the way he pronounces his words, ask yourself where the real ignorance lies. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/12 "2004-03-20T13:44:31Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Who the fuck is Spalding Gray? It’s: “Who the fuck _was_ Spalding Gray”. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/13 "2004-03-20T13:49:46Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > The only good thing about the anti-Southern sentiment that’s so incredibly pervasive in the U.S. is that it keeps a lot of assholes from coming here. > > _Ahem._ Why do so damn many of them show up in Florida? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/14 "2004-03-20T14:39:09Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Why do so damn many of them show up in Florida? ## It’s New York City’s 5th borough, Longer Island. 😉 Plus, twimc, before mocking a Southerner’s speech patterns, try spending some time speaking to a 10th generation New Englander, or anyone from Minnisota. Yeah, and Vinny from the Bronx. Face it, where ever you live, outsiders sound different. Some places not radically so, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/15 "2004-03-20T15:26:49Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Why do so damn many of them show up in Florida? They don’t consider Florida a part of the _South_. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/16 "2004-03-20T15:42:27Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > It’s New York City’s 5th borough, Longer Island. 😉 Seeing how there are five boroughs _now_ (Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island), which one is Florida replacing? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/17 "2004-03-20T19:59:01Z")
Northern Florida is southern; it’s just southern Florida that’s northern. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/18 "2004-03-21T00:26:07Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > Northern Florida is southern; it’s just southern Florida that’s northern. I’m kinda in the middle but on the Gulf coast—I guess I must be a mid-westerner with a salt water fetish. (MOST of the real, live, honest-to-God Assholes here come from points more northern than our northernmost state, excluding Alaska.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/19 "2004-03-21T00:37:27Z")
Ah… Quebec. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216/20 "2004-03-21T01:07:52Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > (MOST of the real, live, honest-to-God Assholes here come from points more northern than our northernmost state, excluding Alaska.) Santa? And having grown up in Jacksonville, I can confirm the Southernness of northern Florida. Heck, Lynyrd Skynyrd came from Jacksonville. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-tennessee/235216.md?page=2)