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Your point "need a lot more back-up from elected officials and everyday members of the general public in insisting that we are all mostly Americans here" seems
by jhancock 17y ago
Your point "need a lot more back-up from elected officials and everyday members of the general public in insisting that we are all mostly Americans here" seems the right answer but I don't see how we get there from here.
While in my home town in south Georgia, I listen some to the talk radio which I assume much of the locals listen to. Most of it is various forms of veiled posturing for 2010 elections. I hear undertones of racism and classism in most of the chatter. We seem to have evolved from being openly racist (20++ years ago) to being racist without having to talk about it directly.
- billswift 17y ago" I hear undertones of racism and classism in most of the chatter." You probably hear it because it's mostly in your head. A common problem with "intellectuals" who expect southerners and "rednecks" to be racists.
- jhancock 17y agoI seriously doubt it. I am a southerner and many have called me a redneck. I am very plugged into the folks I have grown up around. Racism is alive and well my friend. Obviously, not all the people I know are racists, but there are more than enough. And its by far not a southern phenomenon.