"......many have come from the North (and not just New England) who don't want to live in the South except geographically. Worse, they then spend a lot of time criticizing the local culture (and people) and using their increasing numbers to create changes contrary to the wishes of the "indigenous" folks. That is bad manners to say the least. It is also arrogant and inexcusable. If one wants New York or Massachusetts big government and all that that implies, one should stay in New York or Massachusetts! I am always amazed by those who move to the Carolinas or Georgia for the lower taxes and then do their damnedest to demand government "services" that caused the high taxes in the states they left! Of course, when they get their wish, the taxes go up and they move on (complaining all the way) leaving the locals stuck in a situation not of their own making. These people are a sort of economic locusts, a red tide of cultural destruction. They remind me nothing so much as the aliens in Independence Day, destroying everything in one place and then moving on to destroy some other pristine environment!
Lady Val
SWR
New York
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ReplyDeleteThe South and real Southrons - not the liberal elite wannabees - have been under the heel of the "Yankee establishment" for far longer than the end or even the beginning of the War of Secession. Believe me I was horrified to see what passed for critical judgment about Southerners among ordinary ante-bellum Northerners for generations before the war and with what contempt decent, educated Christian people in the South were held by the same decent, (differently) educated Christian people in the North. There have been excerpts from letters written by Northern soldiers to wives and sweethearts speaking about women who were no different from those to whom they were writing and referring to them in the most disrespectful ways, laughing about their "willow want hoops" that would soon be taken from them so that they would be forced to dress like their "nigger" servants. It is disgusting that what must have been an ordinary "decent" young fellow from Ohio or New Jersey could speak so about a woman who was little or no different from the women he treated with all respect in his home town. Indeed, they spoke of Southerners of all classes as they did the Indians and blacks! And they felt no remorse and expressed no qualms in destroying beautiful homes, books, works of art and all manner of the trappings of civilization. They were barbarians who believed that they were an edifying influence on people who were barbarians. This went on before the war (though not the destruction) it went on during the war and it continued after the war.
ReplyDeleteFor a time (see the Grand Bargain), that attitude was discarded or, more properly, hidden until the 1950s when it came to light again and continues in ever greater strength until today it is questionable as to how much longer any vestige of Southern history, heritage or culture will be allowed to survive. This is the situation as it stands and it is not at all strange that Southerners who love their history, heritage and culture look askance at even the most inoffensive Northerner who comes among them never mind when you get advancing armies of people who hold you and all that you love in contempt and are bound and determined to drag you kicking and screaming into their Brave New World "for your own good".
There is an old saying, "once bitten, twice shy". It would be difficult enough to establish another "Grand Bargain" these days even if Northerners wished to do so but the simple fact is, the "Political Correctness Movement" and its adherents will settle for nothing less than the extermination of Southern culture and the disappearance of any and all people who refuse to abandon it. General Sherman - who counseled killing all "unrepentant secessionists" still lives - or at least his tactics are still in use.
Lady Val
New York