Only in Kentucky
And I quote Trent Lott Republican Senate Majority Leader "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either". Sounds like another Republican for racial equality
"I just want to disappear"
Mark Twain - on why only a Kentuckian could save the union "...it was no accident that planted Lincoln on a Kentucky farm, half way between the lakes and the Gulf. The association there had substance in it. Lincoln belonged just where he was put. If the Union was to be saved, it had to be a man of such an origin that should save it. No wintry New England Brahmin could have done it, or any torrid cotton planter, regarding the distant Yankee as a species of obnoxious foreigner. It needed a man of the border, where civil war meant the grapple of brother and brother and disunion a raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only, but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew the evil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in its hardly less baneful influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew how human all the parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides. And this man, sprung from Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm and transplanted to an Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the one to "bind up the Nation's wounds."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/35101
Edited to add: To be fair to Georgia, they removed the stars and bars from the state flag in 2003. Mississippi is the only state that still has it.
Edited to add: To be fair to Georgia, they removed the stars and bars from the state flag in 2003. Mississippi is the only state that still has it.
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the onion wrote: The Deep South states ... rank at the bottom of the nation in a wide variety of statistical categories, including .... toilet-paper sales, and shoe usage.
"The South is gonna rise up, just as soon as we get together and get all our shit back in one sock. Then, look out, Northerners!"
Ask Bodde about the 1-ply wipe.Where's the money going to come from? Yankee and Liberal states (mostly):the onion wrote:I don't know, I reckon we'll build us a bunch of big, fancy buildins and pave us up a whole mess of roads," said Bobby Lee Fuller of Greenville, MS. "I ain't exactly sure where we're gonna get the money for that, but when Johnny Reb sets his mind to something, you best get out of his way.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html
Most (but not all) "Northern" and "Liberal" (e.g. CA) states pay more into Washington than they get back, and most (except for GA&TX, which are about even) "Southern" states effectively get subsidised. If "the South rising again" means that they can pay more into the federal tax system instead of sending extra-slimy, parasitic politicians to Washington, then I'm all for it!
Bacon is meat candy.
Hank, Jr. wrote: If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I don't wanna go
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I'd just as soon stay home
I was one of the chosen few, to be born in Alabam',
I'm just alike my daddy's son, I'm proud of who I am.
I went through a lot of good women, and shook old Jim Beam's hand,
If I never see the pearly gates, I've walked through the promised land.
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I don't wanna go,
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I'd just as soon stay home.
If they don't have a Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee,
Just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
I've got wild honey trees and crazy little weeds, growin' around my shack,
These dusty roads ain't streets of gold, but I'm a happy right where I'm at.
All these pretty little southern belles are a country boy's dream,
They ain't got wings or halos, but they're sure looking good to me. +
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I don't wanna go
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I'd just as soon stay home
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I don't wanna go
If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, I'd just as soon stay home
If they don't have a Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee,
just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
"There is no secret ingredient"
Po, the kung fu panda
Po, the kung fu panda
Well then maybe you yankee states should start sending your boys and girls off to fight for the country since a majority (but not all) are taken from the Southern States.tomdarch wrote:Where's the money going to come from? Yankee and Liberal states (mostly):the onion wrote:I don't know, I reckon we'll build us a bunch of big, fancy buildins and pave us up a whole mess of roads," said Bobby Lee Fuller of Greenville, MS. "I ain't exactly sure where we're gonna get the money for that, but when Johnny Reb sets his mind to something, you best get out of his way.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html
Most (but not all) "Northern" and "Liberal" (e.g. CA) states pay more into Washington than they get back, and most (except for GA&TX, which are about even) "Southern" states effectively get subsidised. If "the South rising again" means that they can pay more into the federal tax system instead of sending extra-slimy, parasitic politicians to Washington, then I'm all for it!
Jesus only knows that she tries too hard. She's only trying to keep the sky from falling.
-Everlast
-Everlast