Robert E. Lee Day

[Lenticular_J]

Actually, the suburbs of larger cities - namely suburbs where white people are the majority - can be pretty bad. People there can be real idiots. In metropolitan centers, people are generally pretty cultured. In small towns, people are generally polite to strangers.

 

Of course, it still all depends on a lot of things. But down here, there are huge differences between words like redneck or hillbilly or hick. A lot of people here have family with ranches or farms, and generally being a redneck just means you're one of 'em and you're proud of it.

 

ANYWAYS.

[das]

doesn't change the fact that the confederacy is gone and never coming back :P like 90% of the south still think it will, and they think they won hahaha

 

Not true.

 

If you've actually been to the South you would know that although there is a rivalry between the South and the North, most people in the South aren't the stereotypical Rednecks that you just described. The rivalry is more along the lines of "the people in the North are Yanks, and we're Southerners". From what I've seen, Southerners treat 'Yanks' better than 'Yanks' treat Southerners. When I moved into Kansas during fifth grade, I was ridiculed a lot because I was from the South and had a Southern accent. Some of the teachers even treated me like I was intellectually inferior because I was from the South...

 

In rural areas of the South, you have more of the stereotypical stuff, but it's completely different in metropolitan areas. It really just depends on where you go, but it's by no means a majority of the population.

 

I will agree a little bit about the racism. There is still a large amount of racism due to the predominantly black population that has finally overwhelmed the white population, especially in poverty-stricken regions. It exists on both sides, and both sides accuse each other of wrongdoing. The blacks argue that the whites are repressing them, and the whites argue that the blacks are stealing from them, murdering them, and raping their daughters. In these areas you have a lot of crime from the black community (thus fueling white resentment against blacks); there are just a lot of problems in these areas, and I don't really see them ending anytime soon. In metropolitan areas, however, there is a lot less racism. Younger whites are generally more tolerant. Of course, these are just my observations; people in these aforementioned areas might view things differently from how I just described them.

 

 

As a southerner - I can attest to this and agree with this post.

 

Racism works both ways down here - not as extreme as he described if you ask me - but i've met many blacks who resent whites just the same as i've met whites who resent blacks.

 

And we may of "lost" but we will never lose our pride in our "heritage". That flag is a symbol of pride and robert e lee is an icon down here, and will always be one