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Prioleau Alexander: Red State Rules For Blue State Transplants
“The South in a nutshell …”
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Your writing in this one is almost tolerable Prioleau, until you put the major emphasis on guns and hunting culture. And that hunting culture it not near as central to our way of life as Mr. Alexander would like to believe. Sure we own guns, we just don’t worship them. Before you say that I must not be from here, you should know that my family was literally on the first boat that landed in what is now Charleston. The other side moved down to SC from Jamestown, but have been in the US since the 1600’s. We’re as South Carolina as you can possibly get if you’re not Native American. Our large family is a mixed bag of Republicans, Democrats, and the odd (and they really are odd) Libertarians. We’re in church every Sunday or we haven’t gone in a month of Sundays. We’re high school dropouts and PhDs. We do not sit around and talk hunting OR politics. Fishing, boats, etc.? Hell yeah. Other applicable rules? Alligators were here first. Get used to them. Snakes too. Also, please learn the difference between “good snakes” and the kind that will kill you quick. And no, unless you live in one of the state’s major metropolitan areas, you’re not getting a Publix or a Costco anytime soon. If those things are central to your existence, please find a SC city that has those things before you move to somewhere that doesn’t.
I’ll stop complaining about transplants if one of these states takes Drunkle off our hands. Send all the folks you like.
No takesies-backsies.
Interesting piece. When I grew up in small-town, rural South Carolina,, as my forebears had done five generations before me, Yankees and Republicans were few and far between and were largely ignored. Now they are everywhere. Kind of repeals the theory of evolution.
Be sure to get a lobotomy so you’re just as stupid as everyone else. That way you’ll fit in with all the other dumbass crackers, like the author of this piece.
BTW, the University of California at Berkeley is now an ACC team. Go Golden Bears!
Hmmm, all Southerners are stupid? Very tolerant and enlightened view.
Most importantly, leave your blue state voting habits behind.
Mr. Alexander, some day soon I’ll send you a piece on living in my part of the country, upper Midwest-North Country, where it gets “nipply” in the winter and the inexperienced can freeze their handsand feet off. Goodbyes take an hour and lefse is served at holiday meals. Every region has its silent culture, meaning “it just is.” Keep writing, Prioleau, you get it
I would love to meet you. You really get it.
LOL, well said.
The NYC academic now knows exactly what kind of folks we are and how we treat others. Loved that story. I must confess, I’ve used a straw on occasion but I compensate for it by installing binary triggers on my AR’s.
I am in total agreement with you. Very well said.