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Gonna go ahead and say this - I'm getting sick of the South bashing as a result of the NC vote.

Posted by colin (aka colinski) May 11 '12, 13:25

Here's how I see it - YES, it's shitty that SOME of the folks in NC turned out to vote and SOME of them voted for banning gay marriage. It's crap. It's shitty that this is not a federal issue and is being left to states. Get it taken care of once and for all instead of having these episodes over and over.

That said, when these type of votes happened in Cali with Prop 8, Maine with the 2009 referendum, and on, nobody said of those voters "those backwoods, racist, bigoted, cousin-fucking, intolerant hicks".. they came up with political reasons why the state wasn't ready, or why some outside group had influenced the election, on and on. Whether they're true or not, who cares. It's the reaction by people, and by the media.

But NC passes this, again it's not right but it is a similar situation, and OF COURSE it's because they're Southern. No other explanation. Southerners are ignorant horrible people and don't deserve to live.

Well guess what, that isn't true. It's true of SOME people in the South, but you've seen in other votes that the tolerant, enlightened folk in other regions of the country are capable of getting out and voting for intolerant acts and politicians as well. The South isn't unique in intolerant behavior.

I'm Southern. It's not by birth, but it's by upbringing and by attitude. My wife is as well. We're fiscally conservative, but liberal in social issues. We support gay marriage. One of our best friends is engaged to be married to his boyfriend. I want them to have a wedding and be together for realsies. One of my best friends EVER is southern and gay, and I wouldn't want him to be any other way. We're not an anomaly, we're quite common. My southern city of Houston has an openly gay major.

So why don't you take your sweeping judgement of a region of the country and shove it. Southerners are kind, warm people and you can't let the actions of some cloud your judgement against everyone else.

And I'm sure I'll get lambasted for this, asked for "references, show me links, nobody says that!", but I just want to get that out.

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It's always ok to talk bad about 'white trash', nobody cares. It's never politically incorrect. - CrankYanker May 11, 13:58
It's true in most areas of the south. Signed, a lifelong Tennesseean. -- nm - David May 11, 13:56 2
- ... what's true? -- nm - colin May 11, 14:02 1
  - That a great deal of the south is "backwoods, racist, bigoted, cousin-fucking, intolerant hicks" - David May 11, 14:06
I think the word missing from that was "majority". -- nm - Iron Spawn May 11, 13:42 2
- A majority of voters. Voter turnout: 24.73%. -- nm - colin May 11, 13:50 1
  - Thank you. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 11, 13:51
when san fran started issuing licenses, the city hall was flooded with flower deliveries from southern and midwestern folks with cards saying... - zeitgeist May 11, 13:34
Yeah it got a little tiresome reading Fark the last few days. -- nm - sycor May 11, 13:31
Over-generalizations and negative stereotypes by people against over-generalizations and negative stereotypes! -- nm - Alanis gets it now May 11, 13:29
bless their hearts. ;) - kare May 11, 13:29 6
- You need to, so you can settle down from all that coffee you guzzle down! -- nm - con_carne May 11, 13:31 1
  - omg, i am so addicted right now and it's only highlighted by the fact that i really should only have one cup per day - kare May 11, 13:42
- damn hippies! - colin May 11, 13:30 3
  - it is a dreamland ... in the part of spring and summer. - kare May 11, 13:41 2
    - ah.. but i like the drizzly, grey weather. - colin May 11, 13:45 1
      - it hardly ever snows - the weather is very mild in the winter (30s to 40s). just gray and drizzle. - kare May 11, 14:07
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i totally understand why you feel this way, but, i thought it was pretty backwards of California too. -- nm - Andie May 11, 13:26 4
- You can throw liberal Oregon into the mix. I even voted for it when I was voting party line politics. - Bacon, via droid May 11, 13:39
- Like I keep saying, outside of the metro areasCalif is pretty conservative - amoxy May 11, 13:35 1
  - Couple of years in the east bay taught me that. -- nm - MojaveMeg May 11, 13:44
- THANK YOU for being consistent :) -- nm - colin May 11, 13:27

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Gonna go ahead and say this - I'm getting sick of the South bashing as a result of the NC vote.

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