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Re: Confusing excerpts, RTB

Isaac136 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:47:02 -0500

You can appreciate, I'm sure, that without knowing a person or his/her background well, one could not readily assume that s/he is being sarcastic on such a subject.

And anyway, I think ya stuck it in here to rile up some traffic from your more reliable die-hard Southerners in here.

Re: Confusing excerpts, RTB

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:02:03 -0500

Apologies. She's parroting the line of argument that she's attacking. It's meant ironically, or at least sarcastically.

— RTB

Confusing excerpts, RTB

Isaac136 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:59:12 -0500

I'm not entirely sure from the excerpts whether it is the Florida professor or Kromm of the Institute of Southern Studies or perhaps someone either might be addressing who who seems to indicate that the South can be defined by its stereotypes, but that's the impression I get when I hear derisive references to an "anti-education" outlook and Jesse Helms. I've been as critical of Helms as anyone else, but the suggestion that he actually despised universities, labs or libraries or that Southerners don't "cotton to book learning" tells me that the commenter is more interested in dwelling in stereotypes than serious contemplation of what the South is, was or is becoming.

It reminds me a little bit of African Americans being told they aren't "black" if they don't speak a certain jargon or hold a specific political perspective. It isn't that a given person isn't African American (or that North Carolina isn't in the South); it's that the person making that suggestion is him or herself lacking in perception of what it means to be an African American or what it means to be part of the South.

The quotation marks around the text in blue suggest that those are the remarks being quoted from Kromm. Is the final paragraph in blue (which is not contained in quotation marks) from Roberts?

The New South Meets The Greater Depression

AquaMan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:57:18 -0500

a lot of the transplants who moved here during the boom years are now leaving beause of the collapse of the job market.

Re: Perdue's inaugural address

AVLGUY — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:51:02 -0500

Yep - Issac136 and Bev have a lot of friends - even all the way over here in Asheville. And congratulations, Bev - on behalf of the Buncombe County majority who helped get you elected AND turn N.C. blue!

Re: Perdue's inaugural address

FloydTurbo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:29:44 -0500

Well Issac136 .... I definitely trust you more than I do The N&O on such matters. ..... ....."Governor Dumpling spoke to an audience of Issac136 and a whole room full of his friends ...."

Re: Perdue's inaugural address

Isaac136 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:33:31 -0500

Well, Basnight wasn't there, but I was, and while I didn't count heads, the whole danged convention center was chock full.

Re: Perdue's inaugural address

FloydTurbo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:05:32 -0500

"Speaking to thousands ....." Knowing the N&O's well-documented bias in counting partisan crowd attendance ..... can we assume Dumpling's actual audience was Basnight, Rand, Rob Christensen, Linda Williams, Steve Ford and a homeless guy named Zeppo?

Re: Guillory: Seaboard South is different

Proctor — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:41:47 -0500

It's a good thing Guillory isn't a music writer. If he heard a country band play, "My Window Faces ther South," he might just ask a followup question:

"Now which part of the South would that be--the Seaboard South or the rest of it?"

But Guillory makes an important point, interesting too from the historical perspective in that in earlier eras of American history, the "Mid-South," or sometimes the Gulf Coast South, has often led the region in economic activity and prosperity.

David P. McKnight

Re: Obama at Cree

tangoz — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:38:26 -0400

I work at Cree but chose to be at Pat McCrory's Jamestown rally rather than attend a event at work on my off day. I am running for the State House in district 33 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
My opponent Dan Blue has openly endorsed Barack Obama twice despite the many misgivings and questionable judgment of Senator Obama. Dan Blue is also a absentee legislator in district 33 who didn't want to file for reelection. He fails to show up to any civic events in the district and has displayed a "I do not care" attitude about of district 33's citizens.
We certainly need change in North Carolina, but I do not believe Senator Obama brings the change we need here based on the who's who of North Carolina that have endorsed him. Tragically Senator Obama will help the same entrenched corrupt Democrats get reelected here in North Carolina.

Paul Terrell III
www.wakegop.org/paul-terrell.htm