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inthecorneroverhere Donating Member (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:02 PM
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Tit for tat
We didn't start this. Y'all did. I wasn't even posting yesterday afternoon when most of the Southern-bashing was posted. I was away from the computer at that time.

Some points to observe about the North:

1. The surface of Lake Erie actually caught fire in 1969 because there was so much pollution in the lake. This event in a northern area contributed to the impetus for Nixon signing the EPA into existence.

2. Residents of South Boston rioted against busing that would have brought children from Roxbury into their area. The last I checked, Boston is located in a New England state, Massachusetts.

3. Large sections of the downtown areas of cities such as Cleveland and Detroit are busted out and abandoned. To its credit, the Big Apple has remained a vital city. However, many other northern cities are full of crackhouses, gangs, and murders.

4. Although riots didn't happen during this latest blackout, the great northern blackout of 1977 provoked widespread looting and civil disturbance.

5. Boston drivers are known as the rudest in the country.

6. Northerners are the ones who have been making the 'attack' posts vs. the South. This post is merely an effort to counterbalance.

7. Northerners have an arrogant, bossy high-minded attitude toward the South. This is the case even when the target Southerners are liberals or moderates, and are not a part of the "Ray-gun revolution."

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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:04 PM
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1. There are ASSHOLES everywhere and the reaches of pollution
do not know state, regional nor even national boundaries.

Time to realize NORTH and SOUTH are concepts manipulated by pollsters.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:04 PM
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2. Dude
Let it go...seriously :eyes:
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:07 PM
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5. He's hurting, feeling alienated and it's hard to let go in the knowledge
that the subject will rear its ugly head with the same ugly comments in a couple of weeks.

Let him have his say.
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inthecorneroverhere Donating Member (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:15 PM
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7. nope!
Edited on Sat Aug-16-03 01:15 PM by inthecorneroverhere
I won't let this one go until the South-bashing on this board stops!!!!!

This post is ONE counter-post to NUMEROUS South-bashing posts with large numbers of replies that appeared yesterday at a time when major news regarding the blackout in the North was occurring. There was NO major news in the Southeast yesterday, except for the shootings in the BORDER state of West Virginia.

I am about ready to leave this board because of the arrogant ignorance coming out of certain NORTHERNERS on this board.



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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:05 PM
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3. As a Northerner I'd like to say
I don't have a problem with folks from the South or anywhere else. Sorry to see you're not all that fond of us. Come on up! We'll change your views! :toast:

Julie
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:09 PM
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6. as another northerner I'll second that
and add that one thing the South has over us northerners, at least us white northerners, is the word y'all.
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:05 PM
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4. Yep, the North is just as guilty of those peccadillos as the South.
That's why I posted that the only difference is that the weather cooler up North than the South.
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Liberalboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:15 PM
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8. I happily admit
that I was a Masshole driver - thats why I moved to Denver and haven't had a ticket in nine years :-)
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 06:22 PM
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12. Hi Liberalboy!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:18 PM
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9. I like your post - and your points are true except it was noy Lake Erie
It was the river flowing into the lake - just before DK became Mayor - and it only burned the bridge a little bit.
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Dob Bole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:35 PM
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10. *drumbeats*
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Alenne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 01:38 PM
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11. The post I read was made by a texan
living in Miami.

It is all really silly.
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