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You don't hear about it, it's a term used by others to describe a set of ideals held by many white southerners. Just because you haven't heard of something doe
by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
You don't hear about it, it's a term used by others to describe a set of ideals held by many white southerners. Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
- lampshades 4y agoI’m not saying it doesn’t exist but that maybe it’s not as prevalent as you think.
- kcplate 4y agoI’m aware of it but only through seeing folks online in comments (and generally they are folks not from the south) making me aware of it despite living in the the south for half a century. No one I know down here wastes two brain cells dwelling on or “upset over the loss” from a war fought 160 years ago, but to read it online you’d think every other home has an altar to Robert E. Lee in a special alcove in their living room.
- kcplate 4y ago> set of ideals held by many white southerners. I am a white southerner and have been for more than five decades, in all that time I have never met a single person who holds this view. I think if it was “many” I’d have encountered at least one in that time. Sure you get the random redneck flying a tattered confederate flag outside their broken down trailer, but ascribing an adherence set of ideal to a complex philosophical hero worshipping belief system is probably a bit of a stretch.