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Originally posted by Gattigap
To the extent that it matters to have this discussion, I was born, raised, and went to school in, the South. You? We can compare our dirt-road cred if need be.
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Dang, thought I was talking to a guy from Boston. Whose the liberal from Boston? Is that GGG?
I was born elsewhere (Dad in military), but raised and went to school in the south. Live in CA now.
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Originally posted by Gattigap
The reason that I found your declaration silly was the proposition that Southerners' love of God and country (while certainly true in itself) somehow overpowers their taste for pork,
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I think this is so.
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Were it so, we wouldn't have Southern politicians so skilled at, and dedicated to, acquiring it for their constitutents, and trumpeting it to the heavens. Strom Thurmond is
one prototypical example: I didn't say they weren't interested in it at all.
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Were we so inclined, we could Google and read about the space center and facilities in Houston and in Alabama, the freakin' TVA, the naval base in Charleston (may she rest in peace), and any other number of examples of pork. Whether in the form of a barrel stuffed with federal dollars, or pulled and doused in vinagar on a bun, Southerners like their pork as much as anyone.
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Liking pork doesn't mean that they don't vote more for bigger principles. I didn't say that they hated pork barrel spending.
