South Carolina may legislate celebration of treason

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Pretty weird that people there still haven't gotten over that after all those years.

In Britain we had bitter infighting between Catholics and Protestants for centuries, yet there's no enduring schism in our society about it...

The South can't get over the fact that the North took away their slaves.

Edited February 4, 2009 by A.J.

[almaty 19]

Pretty weird that people there still haven't gotten over that after all those years.

In Britain we had bitter infighting between Catholics and Protestants for centuries, yet there's no enduring schism in our society about it...

The South can't get over the fact that the North took away their slaves.

and later, their jim crow laws

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Those southerners, they loved their slaves like people these days love their pets and iPods. How would you feel if China put together an army, invaded us and confiscated our furniture?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well they had segregation until the 60's didn't they?

Clearly some entrenched attitudes at work. It might as well be a different country for the differences in attitude.

[alienlovechild 75]

Well they had segregation until the 60's didn't they?

Clearly some entrenched attitudes at work. It might as well be a different country for the differences in attitude.

6, have you ever been in the South?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well they had segregation until the 60's didn't they?

Clearly some entrenched attitudes at work. It might as well be a different country for the differences in attitude.

6, have you ever been in the South?

I've been to GA a couple of times. Why?

[HAL 9000 96]

Well they had segregation until the 60's didn't they?

Clearly some entrenched attitudes at work. It might as well be a different country for the differences in attitude.

Agreed. There are total differences in attitude as with most other things in society that can be boiled down to binary (usually opposing) viewpoints. People with attitude problems abound just about for everything, including lingering [transformed] racial and social feelings.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well they had segregation until the 60's didn't they?

Clearly some entrenched attitudes at work. It might as well be a different country for the differences in attitude.

Agreed. There are total differences in attitude as with most other things in society that can be boiled down to binary (usually opposing) viewpoints. People with attitude problems abound just about for everything, including lingering [transformed] racial and social feelings.

I think it says a lot that while the civil war has been over for 150+ years, the attitudes towards it - and indeed the contributory issues that led to it (such as race) continued into the 1960s - and even through to today.

[HAL 9000 96]

Well they had segregation until the 60's didn't they?

Clearly some entrenched attitudes at work. It might as well be a different country for the differences in attitude.

Agreed. There are total differences in attitude as with most other things in society that can be boiled down to binary (usually opposing) viewpoints. People with attitude problems abound just about for everything, including lingering [transformed] racial and social feelings.

I think it says a lot that while the civil war has been over for 150+ years, the attitudes towards it - and indeed the contributory issues that led to it (such as race) continued into the 1960s - and even through to today.

Absolutely. It doesn't take a PhD in cultural anthropology to notice although of course, people with ODD will live in denial just because. Although the underlying causes are there.

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

Pretty weird that people there still haven't gotten over that after all those years.

In Britain we had bitter infighting between Catholics and Protestants for centuries, yet there's no enduring schism in our society about it...

Talk fer yerself, yer Lordship! That war is still being fought in Belfast! And, too often, right there in London.

--Bullwinkle

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pretty weird that people there still haven't gotten over that after all those years.

In Britain we had bitter infighting between Catholics and Protestants for centuries, yet there's no enduring schism in our society about it...

Talk fer yerself, yer Lordship! That war is still being fought in Belfast! And, too often, right there in London.

--Bullwinkle

In London? Not these days...

The Northern Ireland dispute is over territorial control - It has nothing to do with the Reformation under Henry VIII and what arose out of that.

[alienlovechild 75]

I've been to GA a couple of times. Why?

Sorry to have singled you out because I had the same question for the majority of posters bent on stereotyping the South. Furthermore, I thought you may be thinking about another North-South fight.

http://express-press-release.net/55/SurgiC...the%20boobs.php

I'm a Yankee and have lived in few states in the North and South but haven't lived out West. I've cracked my share of jokes on the South but I don't see the Old South and its history as a dominate model for race relations now.

[Peikko 1,575]

Pretty weird that people there still haven't gotten over that after all those years.

In Britain we had bitter infighting between Catholics and Protestants for centuries, yet there's no enduring schism in our society about it...

Talk fer yerself, yer Lordship! That war is still being fought in Belfast! And, too often, right there in London.

--Bullwinkle

In London? Not these days...

The Northern Ireland dispute is over territorial control - It has nothing to do with the Reformation under Henry VIII and what arose out of that.

In London? Probably not for over 200 years now. As for NI, even that little bastion of sectarianism is on its way out, waaaay out. The peace process is alive and kicking notwithstanding a little bit of acrimony over the 'recognition of suffering payments'

[HAL 9000 96]

I think that's why PD was highlighting lingering sentiments and attitudes... not exactly dominant forces in the way people interrelate.

Although its not rocket science to note how a person's subconscious or community-influenced attitude can and does influence their behavior in irregular patterns.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pretty weird that people there still haven't gotten over that after all those years.

In Britain we had bitter infighting between Catholics and Protestants for centuries, yet there's no enduring schism in our society about it...

Talk fer yerself, yer Lordship! That war is still being fought in Belfast! And, too often, right there in London.

--Bullwinkle

In London? Not these days...

The Northern Ireland dispute is over territorial control - It has nothing to do with the Reformation under Henry VIII and what arose out of that.

In London? Probably not for over 200 years now. As for NI, even that little bastion of sectarianism is on its way out, waaaay out. The peace process is alive and kicking notwithstanding a little bit of acrimony over the 'recognition of suffering payments'

The last IRA bombing I can recall was the one in the London Docklands - in 1995, I think.

The Good Friday Agreement was one of the Blair Government's notable successes.

There are still paramilitary elements in NI ("The Real IRA" for instance - who blew up that pub in Omagh) but those are pretty far outside of the mainstream these days. I never lived in NI so I don't know what the attitudes are amongst the public - but with political settlements being reached, I suspect those are on the way out also.

Shows that there is at least some hope for peace in the ME.

Edited February 4, 2009 by Paul Daniels