The next time you feel like bashing the South on DU, remember Alabama's Lilly Ledbetter...
...and then shut the fuck up.
This PSA brought to you by Because I Said So, That's Why.
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Hell, in the South, naming your dog after someone is just a hair shy of naming your child after that person.
All kidding aside, it really is a compliment in most parts of the South.
I was at the drive-thru Walgreens and watched a good old boy with his coon hound in the back and his Yorkie in his lap make his purchase. It was so cute.
Her speech was important, motivating, and educational!
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but it looks likes everybody picked up on it -- I've liked just about everybody I've seen so far!
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And ya don't wanna fuck around with her.
Exactly !!!
She is an amazing person.
Listening to her, I was reminded a little of the late Ann Richards' horse sense & spunk.
He was amazing tonight as well! 
Time for another round of internecine circular firing squad action.
I'm a southerner, been one all my life, and my family has been in the Carolinas since 1688. Of course, this will probably invite the typical "I'm more southern than you" bullshit, but whatever.
What people don't get is how the once-solid south, with a long tradition of populism, went over to the dark side: how it is that a majority of white folks in the south, where more people get checks from the government than in any other region, and where military largesse is liberally spread around, came to drink the drink the GOP "all government is bad" Kool Aid. Most people do understand that this happened at the very moment the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln, and adopted its southern strategy. The same sorts of people who once supported Lester Maddox and George Wallace are still around, and I think when folks criticize a certain type of white southern person, this is who they have in mind.
The Maddox and Wallace people were teabaggers before it was even a thing. Same message, same people, different day.
Fact is, if you are a white southern progressive, you've already probably taken pains so that folks don't confuse you with these people. If you're a southern progressive, you can take pride in the fact that all eyes are on the Democratic National Convention in the Queen City.
The only thing less productive than this sort of thing is to revisit the 2008 Democratic primary.
I should see her as a Southerner? 
Because you seem to be saying that only half the country gets to be proud of this woman. Does this also mean that only women get to be proud of her, not men, because she's a woman?
in the South (& you did make me chuckle), but those groups also exist in the North, East, & West as well. Backward rednecks & phony ideologues (I call them hypocrites) can be found anywhere.
Bill Moyers
Jim Hightower
The late, great Molly Ivins
Oh yeah, and my dad.
But there is an exception to every rule.
I guess they think it was rad fems in congress who wrote the Paycheck Fairness Act. 
