Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wasn't talking about slaveowners. Most Southerners did not own slaves. And I would hope you'd see a bit of humor in what I was writing. Maybe you did. ;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of bdcolen Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:07 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: Southern living was RE: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism It was easy to be unhurried and carefree when the African imports were doing the heavy lifting. Somehow I doubt that the poor whites lead "unhurried and carefree" lives - unless they were leading unhurried lives of quiet desperation. ;-) B. D. Ain't Misbehavin' - Much! :-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Craig Zeni Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 8:25 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Southern living was RE: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism >Of course, most of the bad names that Southern folks have acquired were >given to them by their northern neighbors who abhorred their carefree, >unhurried, and unbridled lifestyles, their ways of allowing their >animals to graze untethered, their culinary habits which were foreign >to the mostly order-obsessed British-born or descended folk who settled >the North. Many of our Northern friends have never been able to >cultivate a taste for so many delicious Southern delicacies--like >country ham and redeye gravy, biscuits, cornbread (the way it is >supposed to be made, without sugar!), and other goodies which, I'm >sure, many of you fine gentlemen and gentleladies have never savored. As a long time resident of a southern city that's seen an avalanche-like influx of Northerners, my favorite bumper sticker is "I don't care HOW you did it up North." CZ NC - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html