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VGAddict90
12/02/21 5:58:40 PM
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Besides food?
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TheLiarParadox
12/02/21 5:59:56 PM
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The food is mostly trash, too.

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nothanks1
12/02/21 6:00:15 PM
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I'd answer seriously but it's the weekly 'hurr durr stereotypes' topic
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CRON
12/02/21 6:00:58 PM
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Amazing food, great music (with the exception of modern pop country), beautiful landscapes, cheap housing costs, and despite the obvious social issues, people are generally more polite, at least from my experience.

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Ving_Rhames
12/02/21 6:01:40 PM
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Southerners aren't tightly wound af and are pretty easygoing. Then again the last time I was in the south was like 2014 so yeah.

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ultimate reaver
12/02/21 6:01:50 PM
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a lot of pretty areas

thats about it. it sucks here

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hockeybub89
12/02/21 6:03:05 PM
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ledbowman
12/02/21 6:24:29 PM
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you know black people also live in the south right

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AngelicRadiance
12/02/21 6:24:32 PM
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It's where @GrandConjuraton is and I think she's swell

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Lost_All_Senses
12/02/21 6:24:41 PM
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It has Joe Rogan

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Damn_Underscore
12/02/21 6:25:48 PM
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Much nicer weather than the north.

I 100% understand why a lot of old people are snowbirds

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Lost_All_Senses
12/02/21 6:27:40 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Much nicer weather than the north.

I 100% understand why a lot of old people are snowbirds

Snowbirds? Is that the sequel to the classic Skatebird? Is it on psn?

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Ving_Rhames
12/02/21 6:41:33 PM
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ledbowman posted...
you know black people also live in the south right

Are you saying that black people prevent the south from having redeeming qualities or somethin?

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modena
12/02/21 6:43:56 PM
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Ving_Rhames posted...
Are you saying that black people prevent the south from having redeeming qualities or somethin?
I laughed at the lack of context there, I thought the same thing at first.

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Antifar
12/02/21 6:44:28 PM
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This topic was dogshit the last time

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MasterChief5000
12/02/21 6:48:54 PM
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I have friends and gf there. You shut your mouth.
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hockeybub89
12/02/21 6:49:36 PM
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MasterChief5000 posted...
I have friends and gf there. You shut your mouth.
I have my entire life here. Fuck the South.

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MasterChief5000
12/02/21 6:51:14 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
I have my entire life here. Fuck the South.
Damn, it cant be that bad?
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ultimate reaver
12/02/21 7:09:48 PM
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MasterChief5000 posted...
Damn, it cant be that bad?

its not bad in the way a lot of people think it is, but outside of certain areas it gets bad. people seem to associate rural southern areas with peaceful quiet living when in my experience most small-to-mid-sized areas in the south are pleasant gated communities surrounded by a shitton of miserable people that would mostly rather be anywhere else than where they are


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Axiom
12/02/21 7:11:05 PM
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It makes the other states look good
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ledbowman
12/02/21 7:13:07 PM
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Ving_Rhames posted...
Are you saying that black people prevent the south from having redeeming qualities or somethin?
no why would it mean that when i said it as refuting the op. maybe stop trying to twist everything i say into racism

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Shotgunnova
12/02/21 7:14:17 PM
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Nolan Arenado

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Ving_Rhames
12/02/21 7:42:02 PM
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ledbowman posted...
no why would it mean that when i said it as refuting the op. maybe stop trying to twist everything i say into racism

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The OP didn't bring up black people. You did for some reason, and were the only one to mention race at all.

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AloneIBreak
12/02/21 7:59:03 PM
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nothanks1 posted...
I'd answer seriously but it's the weekly 'hurr durr stereotypes' topic
Virtually every political/social issues topic devolves into this within ten posts.

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Lagomorph
12/02/21 8:17:02 PM
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Culturally, without a doubt. Particularly in the domains of literature and, above all, music. Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers. Much of the African-American literary canon via Alice Walker (arguably the capstone of black American literature). Critical authors in the slave-narrative genre like William Wells Brown & Harriet Wilson, whose social and historical importance are obviously hard to overstate. The criminally-underrated Ralph Ellison, whose Southern Gothic masterpieces rival even O'Connor and Faulkner IMO.

In terms of music, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, and especially the Delta Bluesmen: Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Howlin Wolf, various combinations of which directly inspired the Beatles, the Stones, Clapton, Hendrix, Led Zep and thus modern rock as we know it.

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Robot2600
12/02/21 8:18:07 PM
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no.

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Background_Guy
12/02/21 8:18:14 PM
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biscuits and gravy
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Big_Nabendu
12/02/21 8:20:29 PM
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Lagomorph posted...
Culturally, without a doubt. Particularly in the domains of literature and, above all, music. Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers. Much of the African-American literary canon via Alice Walker (arguably the capstone of black American literature). Critical authors in the slave-narrative genre like William Wells Brown & Harriet Wilson, whose social and historical importance are obviously hard to overstate. The criminally-underrated Ralph Ellison, whose Southern Gothic masterpieces rival even O'Connor and Faulkner IMO.

In terms of music, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, and especially the Delta Bluesmen: Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Howlin Wolf, various combinations of which directly inspired the Beatles, the Stones, Clapton, Led Zep and thus modern rock as we know it.
You forgot Aaron Neville. And zebra.

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VGAddict90
12/02/21 8:23:31 PM
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Lagomorph
12/02/21 8:39:58 PM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
You forgot Aaron Neville. And zebra.

Yep, soul and R&B artists from the South could have a huge post unto themselves. I just figured I'd point to early Southern musical artists as the inspiration for, well, modern music, but you could easily fast forward through the years up to today and come up with a huge list from various genres. Zebra, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dickey Betts, Pantera, Mastodon, and of course Creedence.

Obviously country, though my ears are allergic to mainstream country there are the handful of outlaw guys and modern small-label performers like Hank Williams III, Robert Earl Keen, and cowpunk like the Supersuckers, the Gun Club, and the Dicks/Double Sister Happiness (whose lead singer was outright antagonizing audiences in the early 80s with songs about his homosexuality, one of the first openly-gay artists in the punk scene).

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ledbowman
12/02/21 8:59:59 PM
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Ving_Rhames posted...
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The OP didn't bring up black people. You did for some reason, and were the only one to mention race at all.
racist white people is obviously implied in why tc thinks the south is irredeemable, and i'm saying the south doesn't belong to them

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Big_Nabendu
12/02/21 9:07:31 PM
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ledbowman posted...
racist white people is obviously implied in why tc thinks the south is irredeemable, and i'm saying the south doesn't belong to them

Doesn't belong to who?

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ledbowman
12/02/21 9:12:50 PM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
Doesn't belong to who?
everybody check out this reading comprehension superstar

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Big_Nabendu
12/02/21 9:13:19 PM
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Grow a pair and clarify

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GrandConjuraton
12/02/21 9:20:00 PM
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AngelicRadiance posted...
It's where @GrandConjuraton is and I think she's swell
y u do dis 4

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