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Originally posted by Not Me
Your secretary is a southerner or you went to strip bars in Atlanta? Have you ever lived anywhere in the south?
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The ball that floated by you a few posts ago was an attempt at understatement. (I've also written about this elsewhere on the boards, so I assumed this was more or less general knowledge).
To the extent that it matters to have this discussion, I was born, raised, and went to school in, the South. You? We can compare our dirt-road cred if need be.
The reason that I found your declaration silly was the proposition that Southerners' love of God and country (while certainly true in itself) somehow overpowers their taste for pork, and that they're less interested in pork than in other areas of the country. Ain't so.
Were it so, we wouldn't have Southern politicians so skilled at, and dedicated to, acquiring it for their constitutents, and trumpeting it to the heavens. Strom Thurmond is
one prototypical example:
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Thurmond's effrontery at pork barrel politics is almost breathtaking. After voting against almost all federal legislation aimed at improving health care, education, housing, and other domestic spending programs not involving the military, Thurmond sought every federal dollar he could get for South Carolina, with a press release seeking credit for every grant made to the state.
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Were we so inclined, we could Google and read about the space center and facilities in Houston and in Alabama, the freakin' TVA, the naval base in Charleston (may she rest in peace), and any other number of examples of pork. Whether in the form of a barrel stuffed with federal dollars, or pulled and doused in vinagar on a bun, Southerners like their pork as much as anyone.
Gattigap
