LogFAQs > #892162579

from the social mediaz:

I hope this election turns a critical eye towards the scapegoating of the South, a phenomenon where the South is depicted as a space in which racism and other social problems are regionally confined. In many ways, this scapegoating is required to balance Northern amnesia regarding nation-wide social and racial divides, a dyadic relationship which functions to keep American Exceptionalism afloat. This is to say that the cultural and regional South is often portrayed as the source of the nations social, racial, economic, and academic ills. Through scapegoating and crude stereotypes, the burden has been placed on the regional community of the South to re-brand itself towards a more equal and prosperous future. This is despite the rest of the nation being a bastion of prejudice, racially segregated housing, unemployment, and poverty. Well, here is your proof. Instead of writing off an entire region for their historical sins, why not support the grassroots efforts of the minority communities and the blue dots in the sea of red? Maybe now we can illuminate national hypocrisies regarding those same problematic social structures beyond the Mason-Dixon line.

like, the south is objectively terrible towards minorities and the poor, let's not pretend there is a parity here between the rest of the country and the south w/r/t poverty, unemployment, and prejudice

it is true that there are racial issues every where, but these silly southerners I live with are way too myopic and self-absorbed. its like a reverse beltway bubble
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