Taylor: The South is better than the North
When I asked my 14-year-old brother what I should write this column about, he told me to “write about how much better the South is than the North.” I replied that I could not write in such rigid terms, that I would have to present a balanced and fair-minded assessment of the different strengths and weaknesses of the two regions. Then I realized that my predilection for disinterest was only the knee-jerk reaction of a soul too long saturated in the effeminizing, diplomacy-obsessed mores of Yankee-land.
I’m half-kidding. Nevertheless, in honor of Colonel Sanders, Davy Crockett and my...
Enjoyed your article.
Love. It.
You lost... get over it already.
Let me get this straight: you are praising the south for being more in touch with Christianity than any other part of the western world yet then claim that southern culture is more violent than the rest of the US. Care to explain that one?
"and spent my teenage years in a suburb of Dallas. I do not like country music, do not own cowboy boots, do not 'reckon.'"
I also spent my teenage years in a suburb of Dallas (Plano). I love country music, I'm wearing cowboy boots, and I definitely reckon.
I miss sweet tea.
Very enjoyable article, despite my disdain for my Dixie homeland.
an article on the south without one mention of race. just as most southerners would like it to be, i suppose.
When you discuss Southern culture, aren't you really discussing white Southern culture?
Wearing my boots right now. Thanks for repping.
O the Confederate National Anthem will be stuck in my head for days now...
I love the South.
You had nothing, huh? Honestly, guys, don't you have two WEEKS to come up with each column idea?
Does the North not have racial problems?
Wow. I have never before read such ardent bullshit, and my suitemate is a Poli-Sci major.
To #8, does the North not have its own racial problems?
Enjoyable, and true. Sure, the South has some issues, but that's not the point of this article. The South has many good traits that are often overlooked because of its violent past. The past is not all the South is, and it's nice to see some people see that.
Why should we care you're from the South? I see your lips moving but all I hear is 'blah blah blah.'
Why is the YDN printing this Reader's Digest-worthy piffle?
You probably shouldn't refer to it as Dixie...
Refraining from any rebuttal of this article's prima facie ludicrous claims, I will only note that the author misreads the subtleties of Eliot's opening line.
"The Waste Land" does not label "April the cruelest month" simply because it is cold--in that case, December or January would win out--but rather, because it is a period of indeterminacy and metamorphosis. Couched as it is between the extremes of winter and summer, April represents for Eliot something of a calendrical purgatory, neither wholly frozen nor wholly thawed. That admixture of ice and heat is what characterizes Dante's 9th Circle of Hell, and Eliot draws on this Infernal imagery in "The Waste Land."
I wish this article had touched upon the linguistic delight that is the pronoun "all y'all."
Hmmm. Well that was an interesting use of printer's ink. Having lived in both the South and the North, I know there's nothing inherently great about the South vis-a-vis the North.
The author himself had the temerity to quote the Confederate National Anthem which is not only racist, but highly offensive and indicates a clear ignorance on his part of the origin of the song. The South is in many ways still fighting the Civil War. The Confederate flag is still hanging in some areas of the South. Racists and rednecks are what I think about when I think about the South and not its sweet tea.
Truly spoken sir.
Well written. Whoever your little brother is, he's BRILLIANT!
Some of you people need to be quiet, and truly realize how much better the south is. Better girls, better food, better word usage, and lastly, better people! This is a great article that is worthy of the YDN.
Yes, the South has had a problematic past. But I really do hate how Northerners think I am not allowed to take any pride in it, that loving my home is somehow racist, or at the very least, delusional. If this article was about California pride, people wouldn't have a problem with it.
Vintage Bryce Taylor material: the writing is elegant, the quality of thought dreadful.
i wanna go home now...
I love the South too and we will all love it more when the south seceeds from the union again !
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"Better girls...and lastly, better people."
Wait, I thought girls were people...
to #28- In the South girls are works of art.....
north and south BOTH blow. WEST COAST is where it's at.
Misconceptions are so funny. You might be surprised. Of course, 30 years back this would look very different.
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Having lived in Texas for the last few years (but being originaly from california) Ive learned a few things about these people that fly rebel flags, a practice which originally offended me. Here in highschool they teach us that the civil war was not fought over slavery, but rather the right to secede from the union. And almost any southerner here will tell you that the flying of the flag is not a racist practice, but rather a demonstration of pride in the fact that there homeland had the guts to secede and fight for that right. So to my understanding its no different then how we texans fly our flag, the reminder that we were once our own country, and we have our kids pledge alligance to it at school. Racism has nothing to do with it.
And yes, Blue Bell is the best thing ever!!!
Amazing article--loved it. Plus, the north ain't got shit on southern sweet tea! I tried tea in boston....