"Better Off Without 'Em"

[KeyserSoze]

I don't see a whole lot of difference between boobs like this guy and folks like the Kennedy brothers, Clyde Wilson, Tommy DiLorenzo, etc., etc.

 

[brass napoleon]

... I have myself lived up north for some time now, and here you will find hillbillies and chewing tobacco bumkins, too. The other day, on a beautiful sunny day, I took a walk in the woods, and all I could hear was gunshots going off in every direction I turned. Of course it's gun season on deer. But you get the idea. The only difference is these hillbillies talk with a northern twang.

This is absolutely true. There's really no significant difference between North and South. The real difference in this country is between rural and urban. Rural Ohio is very much like rural Georgia. The same is true of the urban areas.

 

[shanniereb]

Hey, I can feel the love. Happy, happy, happy, no the nation would not be better off without us! What kind of music would there be? Then there wouldn't be anyone for ya'll to pick on. This guy is just absolutely nuts!

 

[johan_steele]

The author is a nutt, nuff said.

 

[John Hartwell]

He's getting a lot of attention, and, I'm sure, making a lot of money.
He's as whacko as today's secessionists, just smarter.

 

[K Hale]

unless Americans wake up soon, history will repeat itself eventually...it's not if, but when.

Baloney. This is just a guy trying to sell a book.

 

[M E Wolf]

MOVING THREAD TO "BOOK REVIEW" TENT...

M.E. Wolf
POSTED IN THE CAPACITY OF MODERATOR
Nov. 20, 2013 6:32 p.m.

 

[FrazierC]

I know I shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but I'm already doubting this book and I haven't even read a word.

The South wouldn't be great without the North; the North wouldn't be great without the South. They need each other. It's like a sandwich with just peanut butter or a sandwich with just jelly; yeah, it's okay, but when you combine them it makes for one yummy sandwich.

You can tell that I haven't eaten dinner yet.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Some books you can judge by their covers, though.

 

[Drew]

I as a northern guy would love to take boobs like this on a trip, if I could stand it. More, clueless "coffee houses of Cambridge" pontificating, if you ask me. Emphasis on "clueless."

 

[kevikens]

If ignorance is bliss this author must be truly happy. Perhaps I am a "dough face" but having been born and raised in the North I always thought that whatever my neighbors and I were that was what America was supposed to be. What a surprise once I started to travel around this country. Of course the South is different from the North, but difference does not mean superior or inferior, it means, well, just different and the genius of America is that both lobster rolls and hush puppies are as American as grits or oat meal. We complement each other with our regional idiosyncrasies. I enjoy visiting the South, and my brothers, who have escaped from up North to take up residency in Dixie. I like visiting a part of the country where owning a firearm is seen either as a civic responsibility or just good clean fun or where hunting is seen as a worthwhile and honorable sport, not an aberrant deviation into mindless cruelty. And when it comes to defending this country, all of it, not just Yankee land, no part of this country has given a greater percentage of its young than the South. I hope none of the Southrons reading the review of this book (I know you have too much common sense to buy the thing) will think this guy represents anyone other than the brie and wine crowd at the sushi bar (what a stomach churning combo that would be). Most of the Northerners I know like the South not just for a place to visit but a good place to move to and I cannot imagine the US being the US without all that Southern history and culture have contributed to our greatness. As for the author of that book I hope he moves to Toronto or Montreal or Berkeley or some other foreign city where they have no idea what barbecue can taste like.

 

[Drew]

Of course the South is different from the North, but difference does not mean superior or inferior, it means, well, just different

Thank you for that, kevikens. I've been saying it since I got to the Forum, too.

 

[bankerpapaw]

unless Americans wake up soon, history will repeat itself eventually...it's not if, but when.

I afraid you are right, Randy. Only this time it won't turn out so well for the nation.

 

[FZ11]

No, this is not a book by neo-Confederates still yearning to be free. On the contrary it's written by Chuck Thompson, CNN travel editor, about how the U.S. would be better off without the South. It gets pretty nasty, this guy is obviously a hater, but I'll bet some out there feel that he makes valid points. BTW, he also wrote a piece a couple of days ago and in a similar vein asking the question "Was the Gettysburg Address a Mistake."

http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ntal-failures-to-communicate-99992_Page2.html

Anyway, here's a review of the book with a sampling of the content as well as the book jacket. I ask the question: is Thompson correct? Would the U.S. be better off without the South?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/books/better-off-without-em-by-chuck-thompson.html?_r=0

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But,then,where would all them Yankees go to get jobs or retire to?

 

[proud texan]

I said in my introduction the other day when I joined this great website that the North and South still feel a deep passion for a conflict that took place 150 years ago. God it's been that long now. Both regions still like to jab at each other. Personally, I like Charlie Daniels take on the war when he says in one of his songs, " we might have done a little fighting amongst ourselves, but outsiders best leave us alone. The song was in America.
People like this author and idiots like Bill Maher like to pick on the south, but I have myself lived up north for some time now, and here you will find hillbillies and chewing tobacco bumkins, too. The other day, on a beautiful sunny day, I took a walk in the woods, and all I could hear was gunshots going off in every direction I turned. Of course it's gun season on deer. But you get the idea. The only difference is these hillbillies talk with a northern twang.

Might not be a good idea to be awalkin in the woods during gun season; doncha think? LOL

 

[K Hale]

I afraid you are right, Randy. Only this time it won't turn out so well for the nation.

You guys are hilarious. At least don't give this idiot any money for the book, can I ask that much?