Oh look, the media is at it again.
>"Every year the Fourth of July is marked by ringing affirmations of American exceptionalism. We are a special nation, uniquely founded on high ideals like freedom and equality. In practice, however, much of what sets the United States apart from other countries today is actually Southern exceptionalism."
>"I don’t mean this in a good way. A lot of the traits that make the United States exceptional these days are undesirable, like higher violence and less social mobility. Many of these differences can be attributed largely to the South."
>"As we learned after the slaughter last month in Charleston, S.C., some deluded Southerners still pine for secession from the Union. Yet no doubt there are also more than a few liberal Northerners who would be happy to see them go."
>"As a fifth-generation Texan, and a descendant of Southerners back to the 1600s, I don’t want to encourage lurid stereotypes of a monolithic South. The states of the former Confederacy include ethnic minorities like Louisiana Cajuns and Texas Germans, along with African Americans. And the dominant conservatives in the South have always been challenged from within the ranks of the white community by populists, liberals and radicals."
>"Britain peacefully abolished slavery within its empire in the 1830s; thanks to Southern opposition, the U.S. did so only as the result of the catastrophic Civil War. And thanks to mid-century Southern members of Congress, welfare-state policies from home ownership to Social Security were designed to reinforce segregation or exclude the disproportionately-Southern black and white poor. Not until the 1960s, with the help of federal military intervention in Southern states, was the right of African-Americans to vote secured. And today white Southern Republicans are at the forefront of efforts to roll back the voting rights revolution by making voter registration more difficult."
https://web.archive.org/web/20150705104500/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/how-the-south-skews-america-119725.html
WHEN WILL WE RISE UP AS A NATION AND TAKE BACK OUR SOUTHERN PRIDE?
HOW MUCH MORE MUST WE TOLERATE THE YANKEES, THE CARPETBAGGERS, AND THE SELF-DEPRECATING, SELF-HUMILIATING, TRAITOROUS SOUTHERN WHITES?
IT'S TIME WE FUCKING STAND UP, AND ADVANCE THE FLAG OF DIXIE