US Election - outsiders looking in

[427 S/O]

MT, steve has previously stated 'I'm an agatator', so there you have it. I honestly believe, 'as an agatator', steve kinda makes stuff up as he goes along..........

Cornbread and buttermilk, thank you very much..........

[MysteryTrain]

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[VRM]

Originally Posted by 427 S/O

MT, steve has previously stated 'I'm an agatator', so there you have it. I honestly believe, 'as an agatator', steve kinda makes stuff up as he goes along..........

Perry,
Post the quote or bugger off. I never said I am an agitator (and I certainly would have spelled it correctly if I did). I don't usually point out spelling errors as we all make typos, but doing it twice in the same paragraph is ignorance, not a typo.
You've already posted a bunch of bogus info on Obama, now you need to do the same to me. No facts and ignorantly presented; just like I would expect from you.

MT,
Yep, there is certainly racism in New England as well. A friend of mine was involved with gang wars in Boston (and got killed because of it). You could not imagine the level of racism involved with just those gangs. Throw in the cops, and various other groups and you have a real mess. Racism in the cities in the east and west seems more potentially volatile, but that also seems to be because the various groups have sufficient mass to be able to fight against it in whatever way they think will work. The racism I saw in the south seemed to be expected. That waiter just took it - I ended up standing up for him. I was also in very little danger of being taken out back and beaten - I don't know if the same would hold true for him.

The cities in France and Germany are pretty inhospitable, but the rural areas are another story entirely. They are very friendly. Rural Japanese and Chinese even more so (though there was always an aura of Chinese superiority).

I think if the South as anything south of Carlisle, PA.

I do have a problem when people (and we have some of them on this forum) from the South call the 'blue' states anti-American and immoral. It's that whole glass house thing. But other than that I do find Southerners rather likable and friendly - and a lot of them could teach us Yankees (Damn or otherwise) a thing or two about family bonds, relaxing, manners, and work ethics.

Steve

[Ron61]

Mystery Train,

I wasn't trying to say the Southern people are any more racist than any other place. When I had a little time I would take a company car and drive off into the back areas and yes I did run into a couple of the Barney Fife type deputy sheriffs. What you doing driving a telephone company car and you are from California. Hauling dope back here to corrupt our kids. The darn car came from their own company about 40 miles away. That said most of the people that I stopped and talked to had a more laid back way of life and just preferred for the Govt. to stay out of their lives. They didn't like change especially when we were putting in computers to take the place of 10/20 men that had worked on the old mechanical machines and at times it got a little testy there. I believe that every person has some racism in them just as we all have some good and bad, and it is just how the individual was brought up or what that person chooses as to which is predominant for the most part. CEOs I never paid much attention to as I just counted them as highly paid politicians. More concerned with impressing the next higher level than giving credit to the people under them that had actually worked so they could enjoy those titles.
As for the term Red Neck, that can be attributed to the Unions from way back in the coal mine wars of West Virginia and a couple of other states when we first started becoming an industrial nation. If you ever get the chance to watch the show Hillbilly, narrated by Marty Stewart, do so. It is interesting.

Ron