NationStates Jolt Archive

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I hope all pro-Confederates don't feel that way! Why would a Confederate hate the Declaration of Independence? If the war was about states' rights, then surely they would be better protected under the DOI than under the British monarchy!

I've lived in North Carolina for 11 years and I have mixed feelings on this issue. Where I live, in a suburb of Raleigh (the capital), things are doing fairly well. Our school system is outstanding, we have a few minor league baseball teams, democrats can get elected to congress, and racial tolerance is just as good as up north. We have a huge research facility up at RTP, and the concentration of PHD's is second only to Boston. However, once you get outside of the cities, it goes downhill. Radio stations start playing good 'ol southern preachers, the population gets whiter and whiter, and 'concealed weapon' becomes an oxymoron. As a practicing Jew, I would not even think of revealing my religious affiliation down there, and homosexuals, other non-christians, and just about anyone who isn't a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (Male) comes off pretty badly. The smaller towns, in general, aren't very nice places.

Getting back to the question, can the south rise again? As I mentioned above, the cities are doing just fine, however if we want to start back up again the city needs to spread to all of the rest of the place. Ignorant communities of good 'ol boys need to finish high school, and in general we need to modernize. If that is to happen, I see no reason why the south can't rise again. That said, it's highly doubtful that this is going to happen. As many of us down in the south are fond of saying: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

First you've got to convince people that it's 'broke', then you can fix it. Until then, take a red pen and mark us off for McCain in 2008.

I've lived in North Carolina for 11 years and I have mixed feelings on this issue. Where I live, in a suburb of Raleigh (the capital)
Hey! I live in Garner! Where abouts are you?

ROFL! This site has to be a joke. What's with the lego slave driver? And the song, LOL!!!

That right there is the very reason the south won't rise again. They may try, but after people laugh in thier faces they'll just get stuffed again, like the last time.

Anybody got a link to the old onion story about the South postponing rising again for another year?

Silly Lego slaveholders!

Anybody got a link to the old onion story about the South postponing rising again for another year?http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28559

The south rose the first time? I thought the North just whooped the crap out of them.

I'm not from the US, but the South humilitated the industrial might of the North for years. They won a good deal of battlefield victories, especially early on. The industrial power of the North was just too much for them.

What exactly is meant by rising again?

As far as I can tell, the whole country is sinking, but that's another theory for another day (or thread).

The south will never "rise" again because it never rose in the first place. Like a souflee, it rose briefly and then collapsed upon itself. Had the south used a proper convection oven and had they kept from the urge to open the door and let the cold air in, they would have risen to a great height.

The initial collapse of the South is obvious to some but not to others. A significant lack of technological and industrial advancements, a lack of a sufficient local salt supply for the long term preservation of food in time of war, a really powerful ally.

Ironically for a time the North gave the South the greatest weapon of all. AIR CONDITIONING. The South rose again for a while, there was a time when all service calls went to someone with a southern accent. Now it is an accent from someone in India.

I feel that the SOUTH SHALL RISEEEEE AGAIN!!!!!

I feel that the SOUTH SHALL RISEEEEE AGAIN!!!!!
Yes, with the help of Enzyte. The natural male enhancement.

As a rich, snobby New Englander with a fancy 11th grade education, I can say positively no. Not unless Mississippi gets kicked out, the South has no shot.

I, too, lived in North Carolina. But a few years longer. I heard bigotry, but it was usually from northern transplants.

When someone would say "The south shall rise again", I would reply "They may, but remember: the north owns all the nukes." <g>

After reading all responses, I'm still not certain as to whether the question is in terms of breaking off from the union again or in terms of getting back on its feet in a manner to match the rest of the nation.

To the latter, I say certainly it has. Of course you have the poor and backwoods areas that will in all likelyhood always stay that way- just as large cities up north have their ghettos. That excluded, the South is doing just fine. We're the fastest growing region in the nation, and education in the suburbs is on par with or above that in the north. My hometown highschool in Birmingham, Al just won the national math tournament again- a feat they accomplish with some regularity.

To the former, I don't think anyone has any plans of leaving the union any time soon. Our poor live off of the government just as much as any others, and the middle and upper class work in and rely on national companies. In other words, the motivation simply isn't there at any level.

Whahahahahahaha!

*looks again at teh other site*

Mwuahahahahaha!

Awww, well. If they want more death etc. in the world, why not :rolleyes: