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I irrationally hate the South: its music, its culture, its history, and its people.
This is tragically unfair of me and I admit that I'm embarrassed that I haven't quite shaken myself of that, but I will keep trying
That said, I'll listen to Johnny Cash all day every day
Johnny Cash is a saint
Would you like to come hang out sometime? NW Florida here. I REALLY mean that. I'm asking and I'm serious.
I got a couple of spare rooms, loads of things to do around here if you like outdoors stuff. Floating the rivers and creeks in kayaks and such is my jam. Stop on random sandbanks, swap in a cold beer, eat a little, explore, move on.
I've never lived anywhere where people were less racist. I know, hard to believe. I live on the edge of a redneck town. My street is ~30% black, the rest white. We got one Asian! And I will marry her this Friday. Everyone is coming.
I cannot clap hard enough for your honest post. You must be a fine person for having said all that out loud and I love you for it. I'm embarrassed by my little prejudices as well, and I hate those god damned limits I put on myself. We get past those by travelling and sharing. Only way I know.
DM me and I'll tell you where we're at.
Man, that spring-feed water is COLD! I'm a Florida boy myself, and I love doing all that stuff you mentioned. I hope he takes you up on the offer because the world needs more connection.
Nice job stranger. Keep up the good work.
I'm in Florida too, and the most racist people I know moved here from Michigan. Apparently up north there is more segregation than in FL, they told me they went to "the white high school" and my husband said the same thing about Indiana and Maryland, the high schools he went to were segregated.
Those guys come down here where we had enforced school integration (which did work somewhat as far as I can tell) and we are just more mashed together and mixed, and they find out they are actually dead racist and think "those people" should be in a different neighborhood and a different school from their kids. They were just able to ignore their racism up north by never interacting with anyone of a different "race".
Johnny Cash is a thing of the spirit
"Outlaw country" - Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kristoffer Kristofferson and the like - is solid music all around.
100+%
Hank, hank jr, David Allen Coe, all of that is a vibe. Real damn shame thereβs some straight n-words in a few of those old songs though, really ruins the vibe to hear the racism come out
I was born and raised Southern and spent most of my life there. Then one day I went far, far away and holy shit I had no idea how sheltered and ignorant the South was. I do remember that my history book had a chapter on the Civil War and slavery was two sentences in the entire book.
It's ok, we hate you back :)
That's OK. We hate carpet bagging, no manners having Yankees who make zero effort to assimilate into our culture. Keep trying.
Why the fuck would we want to?
You tell me, cheap land?
Doesn't mean I have to assimilate your culture, I wasn't clear about what I was talking about.
Doesn't mean we have to tolerate your lack of manners, either. I think I'm crystal clear about my meaning.
If by "lack of manners" you mean "not tolerating racism" then I know exactly what you're talking about. At least, that's my experience with southerners.