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British TV’s Nasty Spin on the U.S. (Part 1)

February 9, 2009 - 12:00 am - by Carol Gould
Blackwater
2009-02-09 12:08:56

Agree with #22. I love the South. I grew up hating them even though I technically am a Southerner. I remember learning about the American Civil War when I was like 10 and being ashamed and shocked that my home state wasn’t only on the side of the “kill all the slaves” South but Virginia was the CAPITAL of the South during the Civil War. I couldn’t believe it.

But then I finally decided to take a road tripe to the deep South in high school and loved it. The people there are so friendly and the Southern girls were sexy as hell. I was also surprised to see how happy black people were living there. I thought there’d be rapant racism in the South because that’s what i saw in the movies. But I saw zilch. White people and black people got along just fine.

And in fact the worst racism I’ve ever seen (which I just remembered) was this kid I met from New York City of all places. He bragged about how he “hated niggers” and “I love flashing my switchblade at them”. He was a guido type. So if anything the North is a hell of a lot more racist than the South in my experience despite the common myth saying otherwise. I even remember watching a news report of black people moving back down to the South in droves because they like the culture more there. Imagine that.