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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3066)	1/25/2001 2:26:46 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

One can idealize Country, surely. It's no better than City, just different. The values in interactions and personal behavior I think carry between them for certain folks. Did I mention I also lived in Midland as a kid? Before Bakersfield. At the same time W. came to those parts. It irritates me when he talks "downhome" because it doesn't ring true to me. JMO. And, yeah, white trash as used by white, or other, country folk is a term applied to behavior and a way of living. To say it is a term used by city folk to down country folk is misleading. My grandmother couldn't abide white trash. One of my best memories of my grandmother is when the term "black" first came into usage. I never ever heard her us the N word, she had always used "colored". She sat there on her rocker on the porch and said "it's respectful to call people what they ask you to call them. That's all there is to it." I had more than one uncle (all "married into the family" uncles) who were members and/or supporters of the KKK. None of that talk was allowed in her house. She would sound sad when she talked of how things used to be here, with gatherings of music and dance and fun of the whole community before a certain religious sect took over who banned music and dancing, and cards, and other stuff. Of the black family that she knew who lived on the mountain and traded chickens with her family for milk. It hurt her that things had become so torn. This is not a "community" anymore. It's a land at war.