I have noticed in the last decade that the left has started to perceive the entire south as racist and full of stupid people. This is one of their prejudices.

I have noticed in the last decade that the left has started to perceive the entire south as racist and full of stupid people. This is one of their prejudices. Of course anyone who's actually lived in the south knows this is not the case at all. Copeland isn't an idiot. Some of his books are good, and he is good at having an understanding of some cultures. He is just hamstrung by a narrow perspective of the world, probably due to seeing everything from the "Vancouver" point of view. EDIT: Please note that I say "the left" and "liberals" above because the people who were prejudiced against the south that I have known were all of this pursuasion. Maybe it is something else and that was a coincidence, but it seemed to be that they frequently attributed characteristics of George Bush to people of the south.