Mr. D. Goes to Washington: Southern Pride

Many people throughout the world (and throughout history) have voiced a pride or love of the land they inhabit and call it by various names (heritage, patriotism, etc.) I'm not feeling it either. But this purely emotional relationship to a concept makes people easier to manipulate. The best representation of this was the poll 10 years after the war in which the nearly a majority of Germans thought Hitler would have gone down in history as a great leader if not for the war. If expertly manipulating people in a craven grab for power is leadership then, yes, he did a great job. Too bad about that war thingy.

Good video. When I actually first listened to the lyrics of “Sweet Home Alabama,” I wanted to punch Van Zant in the face (all the Neil Young crap).

And 'Remember the Alamo' should be a cry of shame, not pride, as the rebellion of immigrant Americans in the Mexican state of Texas was triggered by Mexico banning slavery, which those 'heroes of the Alamo' decried as they couldn't run their plantations profitably without slaves.

I was an Ohio-born, Washington DC-raised white dude going to college in rural Virginia in the early 1980's. The student southerners exhibiting pride, whether from the hillbilly portions of Virginia or states further south, were 100% full-scale absolute total racists. Never met one without the other. We're talking n***** jokes, n***** songs, and an aggressive attitude that "if you don't like Lynyrd Skynyrd, huntin', pickup trucks, flyin' the rebel flag, and treatin' women like whores, I am just plain superior to you." They consistently raised the excuse that "the war was about states rights". The racist atmosphere was pervasive and after a while seemed quite normal. When I moved on to the non-Southern world it got me into some serious trouble as an office manager. Not that I was using racist language -- but because I failed to crack down on it when others did.