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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: American Hostages (The South? Yuck)
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 13:09:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 13:09:27 1985
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In article <840@burl.UUCP> version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site burl.UUCP rti-sel!mcnc!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!burl!eproj eproj@burl.UUCP (eproj) writes:
 
>> PS.  I never been in the South.  Bill wrote "they were from NC and they
>> KNEW what KKK would do".  How is it?  How much the home state of
>> Jesse Helms differs from PA or MA?  ...
>
>Since I live in North Carolina I reckon I can give ye an eyewitness account
>of what it's like down chere. Let me tell ye ... ya don't want ta
>come down this-a-way. Why it's just plain awful. Why tha beaches are
>the ugliest things yas ever seen and them outer banks...why they's hardly
>a big buildings on them. They's what ye call protected or sumpin'.
>...Naw ya cain't really
>compare MA. to N.C.....I mean jest think 'bout south Boston when
>they's was tryin' ta bus them youngens up thar...

Just to set the record straight, I don't want my responses to be taken
by anyone as "South bashing." There were as many Klan rallies in CT.
when I lived up there as there have been in NC. since I moved down
here. And since I've lived 7.5 years in the South I can certainly
testify to its attractions (although I'm hesitant to do so: the last
thing we need is a whole lot more Yankees buying up land along the
coast for condos and setting up apartment complexes in the Smokies
:-).

I contend there is a difference, though. In Connecticut a "Death To
The Klan" rally would be much less likely to lead to violence, and the
jury would probably contain no one sympathetic to the Klan or with
friends or kinfolk who have Klan connections. And anyone who's lived
in both places knows that's a fact. Compared to the Carolina Klan, the
Connecticut Klan was a bunch of wimps. Why, its head was Eye-talian,
and y'all KNOW they's almost as bad as the Jews ... ;-)

The South is just great, and the nuttiness is confined to a minority
just like up North. But that minority is much more likely to put its
money where its mouth is where violence is concerned.

                       -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly