I bid you take thought of your honor and heritage as a Southerner. To value pleasure and possessions and self more than the exercise of neighborly virtue and community is, to be quite blunt, a Yankee way of thinking and acting.
A white house sits on the outskirts of a small town in upstate South Carolina. It is modest in both size and appearance, and rather old, and in front of it next to the highway is a large cross which appears to have taken some money and effort to erect. There is a sign which invites any passerby to stop and kneel at the cross to pray, particularly for the good of the nation. This house is remarkable for the contrast it presents to so many other houses in these parts. Many a house sits guarded by a gate and fence, dogs, and a platoon of signs bearing the stern warnings of NO TRESPASSING, KEEP OUT, BEWARE OF DOG, and the like. In many cases this makes for a real eyesore, but, more importantly, it suggests something about the attitudes of the householders in question, as does the former householder’s cross.
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"Crime has been falling for about 30 years now and is it about at its pre-1960s level before the spike of that decade and those following; in a wider historical sense it is thought that this level of crime is the lowest in the history of our nation."
ReplyDeleteThat's definitely not the part of South Carolina I live in. These crackheads around here will steal everything you have if it's not concreted into the ground and damage anything they can't steal. There's usually at least one armed robbery a day and 2 murders a week here. What once was a nice quiet peacefull neighborhood when I moved here has turned into a section 8 crackhead nightmare as investors bought up homes as the previous owners died off. Most of the residents of these houses change about every 6 months. I hear gun fire start around sundown nearly every night. There's 5 homes with us elderly people still living here that I'm neighborly with but I don't want anything to do with the rest of them.
I guess its time to move. where are you in SC/?
DeleteAnderson. I'm retired and can't afford to move.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
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