Originally Posted by
ChuckK3
We allow ourselves to be portrayed on TV as either Jerry Springer/incestuous sickos, or Boss Hog types...and we laugh right along with them. I guarantee there's not another group of people in this country you could trash and get away with it like the media does Southerners.
Is it our own fault? I think we share the blame.
Our own population hasn't been taught enough about their Confederate ancestry to argue intelligently with groups like the NAACP, the ACLU, and other hate-mongers. We allow these groups to associate the Southern Confederacy with Nazi Germany and get away with it. They insult the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, and the untold hundreds of thousands of poor farmers who cared little for slavery, but died for a cause they felt was nevertheless worthy of their own lives.