Muslim study group surprised to find Alabamans don’t hate Muslims
posted at 7:17 pm on February 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
An academic version of NBC’s NASCAR stunt from a few years ago. They went looking for prejudice — and darned if they didn’t find it.
Hailey Woldt put on the traditional black abaya, expecting the worst…
“I expected people to say, ‘What is this terrorist doing here? We don’t want your kind here,’ ” said Woldt, a 22-year-old blue-eyed Catholic, recalling her anticipation before stepping into a local barbecue joint. “I thought I wouldn’t even be served.”
Instead, Woldt’s experiment in social anthropology opened her own eyes. Apart from the initial glances reserved for any outsider who might venture through a small-town restaurant’s doors, her experience was a pleasant one.
On her way to the bathroom, Woldt said, “One woman’s jaw dropped, but then she smiled at me. … That little smile just makes you feel so much better.”
A native Alabaman comments in the Headlines thread that he’d feel safer in Birmingham in a turban than in San Francisco in a Bush/Cheney t-shirt.
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Now she needs to go to Mecca dressed as a Christian.
Schmuck-esse.
profitsbeard on February 9, 2009 at 7:19 PM
lol
AYYY-RAAAB
blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Or a Palin shirt. Let’s see how fast they do that experiment.
Iblis on February 9, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Not surprised. When I lived in Columbia, SC post Sept. 11 I did see some women in the full burkha (accompanied by their husbands) and there was no comment or anything.
rbj on February 9, 2009 at 7:24 PM
As CNH_320 noted in the headlines, the word is Alabamian.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 7:24 PM
I lived in Alabama for seven years, and I second the comment at the bottom of the article. I also lived in DC for four years, and if I had to choose a place to raise my kids between those two options, I’d go back to the South without hesitation.
commenter on February 9, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I give credit to the professor, he at least seemed to have an open mind. The schmuck from the north, and the guilty white southern boy, not so much.
kerncon on February 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM
This kind of thing always makes me ill. The elitist attitude towards Southerners is incredible.
I will never forget moving to New Jersey and having a neighbor across the street tell me to my face that their schools were so much better than ours. Gross generalization and rudeness combined.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Hailey Woldt, the gold standard of the typical American “academic professional.”
Why should she have been surprised, amazed or whatever at the reaction she received in Alabama?
Must be that she actually believes the Leftist stereotypes.
The folks in Alabama are pretty much like the majority of Americans, very much unlike the typical stereotypes the average Democrat seems to hold dear about Americans not living on the Left Coast or in the Northeast being racist yokels who live to humiliate and persecute anyone who is not lily white…
The next anthropological “experiment” should be her dressing up in a standard American above-the-knees skirt, with a flowing translucent short-sleeved blouse, and walking in the front door of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
Will never happen, she’d be beaten to death the moment she stepped off the aircraft in Jiddah. Would never get to Mecca.
But, as supreme proof of the “tolerance” of Islam…priceless.
coldwarrior on February 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Allah hates you this I know
For the Koran tells me so
Infidels, Christians, Jews and Alabamans we bomb
They are weak but we are strong
Yes Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you,
The Koran tells me so.
Allah hates you, you will die
Blow your grits up in the sky
Say the salat, chop off an Alabaman’s redneck head,
Eat falafel, go to bed.
Yes, Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you!
The Koran tells me so.
Aleph on February 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM
I stand by my earlier headlines comment:
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I wonder if this girl has any sense of irony in the fact that she set off as part of a group that is trying to explore biases and prejudices towards Muslims with the assumption (perhaps due to her own bias/prejudice) that the people in the south would freak out and refuse to serve her some bbq.
It’s good to know that you can have all sorts of ridiculous assumptions about Southerners and still count yourself amongst the open-minded elite in this country.
——————-
I’m not from the south (I’m a KC girl) but I’ve always been amazed at how quickly people will mock a southerner’s accent, any unique vocab that they use and/or accuse them of being stupid and inbred without batting an eye.
These same people will then turn around and pat themselves on the back for being so cultural and open-minded.
JadeNYU on February 9, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Liberals are bigots, this much we know. What they can’t figure out is why most others are tolerant.
JammieWearingFool on February 9, 2009 at 7:31 PM
+1000
unclesmrgol on February 9, 2009 at 7:32 PM
It says more about the people doing the study than those they hate.
tomas on February 9, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Liberal academics and media pukes think of conservatives and real Americans like we’re some kind of primitives with bones through our noses, that can only be understood by anthropologists. Obambi’s “bitter clingers” comment was symptomatic of that. Another example was the Newsweek cover titled “Palintology”.
Jim62sch on February 9, 2009 at 7:33 PM
“There’s a group of Survivalist characters over there that just gave us a glance and nothing else…”
What a bunch of A-holes. Talk about going out to look for a fight! Once again, “white Christians” need to “prove” that they are not rascists.
I can’t tell you how sick I am of this discussion. How about you have a camera follow around a bunch of Muslim fundamentalists, into their mosques and their homes and neighborhood gatherings. Then, how about we dissect their words… Oh no, that would be “rascist.”
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Being from the LI, NYC area, I’d say those things are symptomatic of liberals.
Most normal working people I’ve met around here don’t engage in such stuff.
blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 7:35 PM
It`s fun when lefties shoot themselves in the foot.
ThePrez on February 9, 2009 at 7:36 PM
So… are they racist for pulling this stunt based on their own prejudices? I say yes. Ignorant and self important bigots. “Even those guys over there…” Probably the guys most likely to save your butt if you needed help but judged by their standards… scary.
RalphyBoy on February 9, 2009 at 7:38 PM
I grew up in Al. and Alabamians are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, she might have gotten some funny looks but that would be it.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Good Gawd,its getting worse!
Its a ‘Search and Destroy Mission’ designed
to look for individuals you know that will be
offended!
Interesting though!
Who wants to really know how some,or all
AMERICANS feel!
Wouldn’t this draw the FBI’s attention!
And ARAB ALABAMA,is this a joke,or some form of
sh!t disturbing!!!!
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 7:40 PM
I had the same experience when I was at NYU. It was usually the most liberal folks that were also the most culturally ignorant when it came to the U.S. outside of NY or LA. I told one girl we didn’t have subways in Missouri. She looked at me really confused for a minute then said, “Well then…how do you get around? Do you ride donkeys or something?” She was actually curious and wasn’t asking the question to be rude….it was just out of ignorance.
In LA, the nicest people I’ve met are the people born and raised in LA (especially the South Bay area of San Pedro/Torrance/Harbor City). For the most part, the rudest people are transplants from other areas. I guess they’re trying extra hard to be ‘Hollywood’ but all they’re being is obnoxious.
JadeNYU on February 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM
The funny part is the vast majority of BBQ joints in Al. serve pork and thats it and they are definately not halal.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Well goat – We need to ban all meat emporiums that are not halal. Why would you condon discrimination?
That woman dressed in the Muslim garb wouldn’t be allowed to even enter a pork joint. What an uncaring fool you are!
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 7:45 PM
No need to waste the time or money. Carrying a bible, wearing a nice big cross, or wearing shorts …is there any doubt that she would get jailed and then deported (if she’s lucky) ASAP??
fred5678 on February 9, 2009 at 7:48 PM
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Yes there is an Arab, Alabama, its about 30 miles south of Huntsville but they don’t pronounce it the same ay-rab as opposed to air-ub.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Yep! The liberals have no idea. Out in wine country on Long Island, where we have large farms, tractors, potato houses, and dirt roads, the liberals around still hang on to their Southern stereotypes, even though they live in the country, just like so many Southerners.
Okay, I must admit I find some of the accents to be a little funny at times, but that doesn’t mean people are RETARDED.
The urbanite liberals are just as bad too. They think they’ve lived life more than anyone else because they live in the city. Life might be more face-paced in Manhattan, but that doesn’t mean anything. People down south might talk more slowly, but like I said, it doesn’t make them retarded.
Kinda sad.
And I’d say the same thing to anyone from the South generalizing the Northeast. We’re all Americanooosss, mang!
blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 7:51 PM
As for the strange looks, it’s a small town of ~8,000 people. While that’s too big for everyone to know everyone else by name, they probably don’t get a lot of visitors. Furthermore, these people don’t look like they were going around with a hidden camera. One thing I learned from the few student films I’ve worked on is that if a camera is present people stare. It’s this natural thing called curiosity. I know they were assuming that the stares were because of the Muslim dress, but, it seems equally likely that it was due to the film crew.
They’re just lucky they weren’t filming in LA. Every place in LA has a no filming policy and they’ll chase you out very quickly! They know you’re supposed to get paid the big bucks to allow someone to film on your property.
JadeNYU on February 9, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Well,all’s they found were polite Americans,
no different than what I experienced as well!
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM
They did not get the irony. They were expecting a negative reception based on what she was wearing (burka) and didn’t get it. Yet they show their bias by assuming some hunters are “survivalist characters” based only on what they were wearing (cammies.) Projection. It’s a liberal disease.
IrishEyes on February 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM
What’s funny to me is that the supposed “intellectuals” doing this exercise didn’t bother to check on the origin of the name. After the comment in the video, I took 10 seconds to check wikipedia, which had the information in the opening paragraphs.
I’m sure an “academic” would need to research farther to get to source material, but did they really take a study group on a trip, with video equipment etc., without even looking up the town’s background?
cs89 on February 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Arab AL is just east of Egypt AL … which is just east of Hog Jaw AL. Google-Earth it!
laelaps on February 9, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I am from Upstate NY and we have folks dressed up like “survivalists” too. We call them hunters. They have no “f”ing clue about anything outside the city. If she is from Texas she must have never left Dallas to have never seen someone in Realtree. These are suposed to be educated college students and they sound more ignorant than some highschool dropouts. There is a growing gap between booksmart and streetsmart in this country.
“the problem sith common sense is that it is not common”
cobrakai99 on February 9, 2009 at 7:55 PM
So we see who the REAL prejudiced ones were!
ronsfi on February 9, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 7:45 PM
I gather that was sarc
goat on February 9, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Keep them the hell out of my State. Enough is enough.
suzyk on February 9, 2009 at 7:57 PM
It’s a shame that the obviously older gentleman, who gives the impression of an immigrant, had more faith in this small town than the young man who was raised there. It shows how the white community has absorbed the liberal lessons of white guilt.
DFCtomm on February 9, 2009 at 7:57 PM
JadeNYU on February 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM
The most provincial people I have ever met are New Yorkers. As Midwesterner having lived in Europe and the UK I found American liberals to be astonishingly rude, ignorant and bigoted toward all sorts of people.
I moved South many years ago, and it was like heaven after living in NYC. Unlike New Yorkers Southerners never sneered at my accent or assumed that I was stupid or inferior for not being native born. The abuse heaped on Southerners has always amazed me. As I’ve said before it’s almost worth enduring as long as it prevents Yankees from moving here. Unfortunately, they are for economic reasons, and it’s been going on for some time.
Cody1991 on February 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM
I forgot to thank the citizens of Arab for doing such a fine job of representing us clingers. They deserve a bit pat on the back.
DFCtomm on February 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM
It is so true, believe me, back in my ignorant young liberal days, I had that very same attitude. I am ashamed to admit it now, but that’s exactly how Southerners are viewed. Believe me also when I say, I’ve done a 180 and admire and respect people from the south.
4shoes on February 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I grew up in Al. and Alabamians are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, she might have gotten some funny looks but that would be it.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 7:38 PM
I also grew up in Alabama, and also moved back in 1988. Alabama and the south gets a bad rap from from most northeners. But, here we still stop when people are broke down on the roadside and see if we can help. Yes we might look at people different, but we usually shake your hand and say hello. lol As long as you ain’t for them Buckeyes, Wolverines,Irishman, or AUBURN!
Alex Martinez on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Yes,there is an Arab….
goat on Feb 9,2009 at 7:51PM.
goat:At first,I thought it was a joke,and your right,
who says ay-rab compared to air-ub,and ARAB is the
result of a spelling mistake way back when,who knew!
Is this the professor’s pet project,to seek out
(racism in America),or is it a bigger agenda!:)
Btw,does a Professor,have a ‘Chief of Staff’?
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Sheeeeeiitt….when I go home to North Carolina for a visit, I constantly catch people staring at my long dreadlocks.
[ white girl + dreadlocks = goodlordwhatthehellisthat? ]
Every time my elderly father and and I go out to eat, people give us the WTF look. I must admit, we do make an odd combo.
The Ugly American on February 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Of course it was sarc goat…
I am sick to death of these “Let’s go into the redneck country and find out what savages roam in America” type videos.
So, the woman wanted to stereotype the “survivalists” but don’t you dare stereotype her! Oh no, let’s have halal meat in the schools and let’s allow everyone 5 prayer sessions/day and let’s install foot baths in the airports and colleges and let’s …
But, don’t you dare look crosswise, you “survivalist cretains you” at anyone dressed in Muslim garb.
When are we going to stop this?
Go to Mecca baby and let’s here how you fare filming a Catholic there…
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
I Muslim in a bbq joint?
No wonder they were staring.
The Ugly American on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I think a lot of the perception of the south has come from Hollywood, think Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, The Dukes and any number of others heck even Gone With the Wind.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Another funny thing is there is the town of Joppa just a few miles west of Arab
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:17 PM
The problem is that not enough northerners have seen “deliverance”, but I propose we ship out welcome packages containing a copy and other material to prospective residents thinking of moving from the NE to the South. Hopefully it will help them make the right decision.
DFCtomm on February 9, 2009 at 8:17 PM
sheeeeiitt..
The Ugly American on Feb 9,2009 at 8:06PM.
The Ugly American:Dreadlocks! Thats normal,UA!
Having your hair in sharp pointy
points like a starfish to me,is
worth a little extra leering!
I have an 18 year old daughter,my
world,dyes her hair once a week,UGH,
but,she’s my little girl!
Ugly American,you go girl!:)
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Now, Alex, my son is making plans to go to Auburn this fall.
:-)
I don’t mind, as long as he doesn’t go to UGA!
*ducks*
INC on February 9, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Excellent idea!
INC on February 9, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Another funny thing is there is the town of Joppa just a few miles west of Arab
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Were you here goat when the tornado almost wiped Joppa of the map? I live in Arley, on Smith Lake it came 1/4 mile from my house.
Alex Martinez on February 9, 2009 at 8:21 PM
So is the blue eyed girl a Catholic, a Muslim, or one of those wishy washy multi-culture folks?
AbaddonsReign on February 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Now, Alex, my son is making plans to go to Auburn this fall.
:-)
I don’t mind, as long as he doesn’t go to UGA!
*ducks*
INC on February 9, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Well sometimes I pull for Auburn. lol Like when they beat Michigan in 1984 bowl game.
Alex Martinez on February 9, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Alex Martinez on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Roll Tide! Don’t forget them Cornhuskers and yes my hatred for Notre Dame stews to this day but my dad’s family is from Michigan so I cut the Wolverines some slack.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:25 PM
According to the interview, the woman in the Muslim garb was a Catholic… A “good” Catholic, I am sure…
Being such a “good Catholic” I wish she would broaden her education by going to an Islamic state “posing” as a Catholic.
Now that is a video I would be willing to watch.
Trying to portray southern Americans as “yokels” has really become ho hum… You need to broaden your horizons, little girl. How about you step in front of a payloader and see what happens…
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Alex Martinez on February 9, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I moved to Ca. in ’97 so it depends on when it happened but I have been through a couple tornados. I was often asked if I was afraid of earthquakes when I moved here I just said no after a couple tornados and hurricanes whats with a little ground shaking.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I wouldn’t. I’m not a fan of snuff videos.
madne0 on February 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM
INC on February 9, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Auburn is a good school one of the best veterinary and agricultural programs in the country. Plus there are lots of pretty gals so he’ll be happy.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I spent 18 months in southern Alabama and heard only one racist comment, from the Korean lady my wife worked for.
I love the irony involved in doing a study on prejudices, based off of your own prejudices.
BadgerHawk on February 9, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Rampant racism in the south…. they just have to import it in from the northern colleges now. What a bunch of snobs.
Hog Wild on February 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Funny how life is, I was born in California. My mother is from Alabama, and we returned here. Got a lot of kinfolk in Newhall, Calif.
Alex Martinez on February 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Thanks, he’s a great son.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM
These types of people condemn others for ‘stereotyping’, then have the absolute gall to be surprised when their own prejudices are found to be wrong.
GarandFan on February 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Trying to do a rent survey for Korea town in L.A. several years ago I called a land lady and asked for the rent on an available apt.
The Korean lady at the end of the phone started yelling at me that they didn’t want my kind in their apartment building! I told her that I was calling for H.U.D. and that she was violating the law. She hung up on me!
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM
As a native of Alabama I love the out-right ignorance:
1, the girl “I hope no one gets violent” – really? Is she serious? Were total strangers just going to walk up and drag her into the street?
2, the guy from the north talking about all the churches (as opposed to the bars and taverns up north I suppose).
3, The teacher talking about the “survivalist looking guys with shaved heads – I have a shaved head and wear Carhartt and camo gear too. I don’t own a gun and have never hunted a day in my life. I am also a youth pastor who coaches basketball and football teams made up of mostly African-American kids – do I fit the “profile”?
4, Jonathan is obviously a moron.
I like the end with the typical southern gentleman “Ya’ll take care.” How “insulting”!
Oh, and Blame the US Post Office for the Arab instead of Arad.
And of course, Roll Tide
woodman on February 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM
O.M.G! This is hilarious. I grew up in Arab! Yes, I’m an Arabian Knight. And I even have all my teeth and a college education. Go figure.
pannw on February 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Alex Martinez on February 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM
My mom is from Al, my dad is from Mi. and they met in San Francisco. I was born in Mi. raised in Al. and returned to Ca.. My business is going under and if I don’t get a job I am vying for here, I’ll be back in Al. in a couple months. I am in the construction industry and the bottom has completely fallen out of it here. Hey you can get my email from the profile at my homepage so drop me a line so we can keep in touch.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 8:55 PM
You got that right.
jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 8:57 PM
I’m a Yankee who has since lived in the South. Now that I am back up in New England, I’m back to hearing the same old slurs and derisive comments about Southerners. It infuriates me like almost no other topic. By saying what they do out of sophomoric ignorance, they show themselves worse than the shadows they chase on the wall.
I’ve almost gotten into fights about it. And out of any topic I try to show courage in opposing the people around me when I hear things like that. I cannot stand it. I will defend Southerners till the day I die, they are great Americans and great people.
Dr. Manhattan on February 9, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Dr. Manhattan,
Thank you, sir, for defending our honor!
:-)
INC on February 9, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Now if they wore Auburn t-shirts…then they might be in trouble
Uncle Bouncy on February 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM
hey Goat – I feel for you. Go back to AL and try to get the last dribbles of Katrina.
If that doesn’t work, wait for Obama to throw a bunch of bucks your way (might mean having to move over to LA for work.)
no snarc, I really mean what I say. The Feds will save your ass as they will be the only game in town…
The private sector is dead for at least the next 5 years as concerns construction.
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 9:05 PM
I also find it interesting that a top NASA program is based in Huntsville and the Pentagon 2 is in Montgomery. Yep we are just a bunch of hicks but we helped put people on the moon. My uncle worked for NASA in Huntsville during the space race and I had many tours as a child the general public didn’t. I have sat in the moonlander and the re-entry vehicle.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Dr. Manhattan on February 9, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Thanks, Dr. M. “Good on ya’” as we say! :))
Cody1991 on February 9, 2009 at 9:07 PM
It really is a shame somebody doesn’t fund an impartial study on prejudice and stereotyping across the whole spectrum of culture and society – in other words, instead of this shtick of always picking one stereotype and looking for bigotry, why not do it with 30 or 40 different cultural groups. And do it internationally – really send that Christian to Mecca, that Jew to Saudi Arabia, that redneck to NYC, that midwesterner to northern California.
The results would be fascinating. And I suspect they’d be very, very uncomfortable for the “reality based community.”
The only real bigotry I’ve ever seen came from the liberal left. In fact, it was realizing that and recognizing the hypocrisy that opened my eyes to political reality.
Professor Blather on February 9, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Quiz: Who is the only bigot in this story?
29Victor on February 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM
What the troubles makers don’t get is that Americans in the south or north do not behave in a prejudicial manner unless they are threatened.
If this woman and her group tried to shut down the BBQ because they were serving BBQ pork ribs, then yes, people would react. But that is a nuance the left don’t understand.
katy on February 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM
My son just got a great lesson about irony
They went to Alabama to find prejudice. All they had to do was look in the mirror.
CookeyD on February 9, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Babs on February 9, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Thanks, I hear ya. I’m non-union so I won’t be eligible for Obama bucks. My family is in Al. and they have hurricanes and tornados every year.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 9:20 PM
It’s not a uniquely southern thing. I’m from New York, and there’s a town near my hometown called Cairo, but it’s pronounced “Kay-ro.”
I’m sure they would have overemphasized the pronunciation there too.
Tanya on February 9, 2009 at 9:23 PM
So so true!
4shoes on February 9, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Try wearing a Bush shirt in Manhattan if you want to see prejudice
faraway on February 9, 2009 at 9:23 PM
The Land of Northern Aggressors is THE most segregated place I’ve personally witnessed. It’s disgusting how much the Yankees project their own hate onto us Southerners.
SouthernGent on February 9, 2009 at 9:27 PM
For our next stunt we will have a drag queen walk down a street in Mecca to see what happens. As Alan Funt used to say in Candid Camera, “watch the fun and the frolic”.
RobCon on February 9, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Professor Blather on February 9, 2009 at 9:13 PM
That midwesterner would probably find that NoCal ain’t so different than they are once you get away from the coast. Ca. is like two very different realities wrapped into one. Most people think of LA and San Fran but most of the state is agrarian or wilderness.2/3s of the states population is packed into the LA metro and the Bay area, where I live I can drive for miles and not see a single house, just lots of pasture land, farm land and forest.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 9:31 PM
More good news. Oil is still dropping.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090209/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices
Dr Evil on February 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM
The Land of Northern Aggressors is THE most segregated place I’ve personally witnessed. It’s disgusting how much the Yankees project their own hate onto us Southerners.
SouthernGent on February 9, 2009 at 9:27 PM
+1000 I couldn’t agree more, and I was raised in the North.
Cody1991 on February 9, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I am an educator in the great state of Tennessee. I teach 48 different home rooms, 1,000 students. Each class has very diverse group of students–many
Asians, African American, Indian and Pakistani students. I teach quite a few muslims. Everyone gets along just fine and dandy.
I was born and raised between Gary, Indiana and Chicago. A more racist, segregated place you’ll never find.
Southerners have something that sets them apart from the rest of the country–charm and hospitality. Also, a woman with a nice Southern accent is damn sexy. Compare an East Tennessee gal or a Georgia peach with a nice girl from Minnesoooota or Michigan…no competition.
robblefarian on February 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM
They came to AAA-Rab looking for trouble and ended up looking like the twats they are. The respected Muslim scholar seemed a tad chagrined at a mistake only an idiot or a Mohamedan could make, poor/no research.
They did find painful division in New York during the Muslim Day parade (I had no idea that NYC celebrated Muslim Day!). Heartless Americans shouted at other(Muslim)Americans and said insulting things about the Prophet. Why the hate America? Explain yourself!
BL@KBIRD on February 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM
So amazing; racist closed-minded bigots going off in search of racist closed-minded bigotry; and didn’t realize they had seen it in the bathroom mirror before they even left the house that morning.
Midas on February 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Heh… me, too! You’re absolutely right. I left, never looked back and never regretted the decision.
Cheers!
Cody1991 on February 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Welcome to America dumb ass. We let all kinds in and have for a long time. Re the first comment; better yet, go to Mecca as a Jew and see what happens.
pgrossjr on February 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
robblefarian on February 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM
One other thing…. most of the Southerners I know have great common sense as well as a sense of decency. Charm and style are the icing on the cake. ;))
Cody1991 on February 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
The essence of bigotry is having very firm conclusions about people or subjects you actually know nothing about.
Most leftists I meet have no affiliations outside those who agree with them. Their knowledge of different people is minimal, their disgust with such people visceral.
Which brings us to the second part of modern “liberalism”: the intense emotional investment such people have in themselves and their views.
It is the second part that poses the greatest danger, for it is impossible to reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
From this kind of mindset come people running others onto trains for the camping trip of a lifetime, with no concept at all of doing anything other than “following orders”, if in fact they thought that much about it.
It is this mindset against which the Second Amendment stands as the only bulwark. An armed citizen can be persuaded to a point of view, but cannot be forced to such, without consequences to those who would pressure compliance.
Persuasion, genuine intellectual exchange, is civilized. The force of mobs is not. So the firearm has in fact a civilizing influence.
So. The Communist Party of the USA is celebrating Bama’s ascendence. If you needed another message that we got trouble, I guess that is it.
How far will Bama’s corps go to enforce their leader’s will? That is a good question, but don’t look to Eric Holder to put any limits on it.
Harry Schell on February 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
robblefarian on February 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Exactly, southerners take great pride in their famed hospitality and we are raised to be polite and have manners if not you might get a skillet upside your noggin’. I went to a private High School, dad taught there, near B’ham and we had many foreign students that were amazed by our culture and how we embraced them. I had friends from Iran, Jordan, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Korea and Japan and I am definitly the definition of a southern redneck, hunt, fish wore camo and chewed tobacco.
goat on February 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
We have plenty of Muslim families in our neighborhood here in Houston, most of them appear to be Pakistani. What I do know about them is that they give every appearance of hating us. The neighbors directly across the street from us will not respond to a wave, smile or greeting. If we run into them walking on the street and greet them, they pretend that they don’t see us. I guess we’re not quite non-existent to them because we sometimes rate a scowl.
I wonder how our experience corresponds with these “researchers’” pre-conceived notions.
obladioblada on February 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM
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