A talkin' to 'at mebbe ol' Joe Manchin kin unnerstand:

[Atticus]

Win sum fellers call ya nasty names, spit on ya, tell all sortsa evil lies 'bout ya an' then screem fer ya to be 'sassinated, 'at ain't no bunch ya wanna try ta work with.

They's "bad aigs", Joe, an' thoze ain't likely ta ever turn good.

Stick with them what brung ya, Joe; stick with them what brung ya!

No wut ah meen?

[brooklynite]

1. Joe Manchin is a rather eloquent fellow...

I had a chat with him years back (on a boat) at a DSCC retreat.

But by all means, make fun of the speaking style and intelligence of WV voters; always a good way to build support.

[Atticus]

2. By all means, continue your humorless condescension; always a good way to unify a diverse party. nt

[brooklynite]

4. I don't find that unification comes from insulting others...

That would include the 458,000 Democrats in WV who (fun fact) outnumber the Republicans.

[Atticus]

5. There's a lot you "don't find". Some of us rednecks poke fun at ourselves (fun fact) and do find

name dropping off-putting.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Yes. Like I'm sure that they're all coming onto this site

and reading things that will convince them not to vote Democratic, when they were going to otherwise.

I personally have absolutely had it with those people, and found the OP to be funny.

[brooklynite]

7. Perhaps you could explain it to the author of #3

He doesn't appear to see the humor either.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. I'm not seeing him. I may have him on ignore.

[brooklynite]

11. Perhaps you're also ignoring #9?

[Crunchy Frog]

16. Nope.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Wtf is this shit right here.

[WhiteTara]

8. whistling as we pass the graveyard

[ms liberty]

9. Insulting southerners and their accents

Great way to make friends there, buddy. Saw this garbage the last time you did it and liked it just as little then as I do now.

Sincerely,

Southern woman who would be far less civil about this if I wasn't on DU.

[Atticus]

14. I try to keep in mind that nearly all who post here want the same things for our nation and do

not intentionally offend each other.

That said, I have often been offended by those who fail to "keep that in mind" and rather than give another DUer the benefit of the doubt, choose to be thin-skinned and lash out at an ally.

Surely, you cannot believe that my intent was to brand all West Virginians as ignorant or illiterate. But, SOME do talk like my post did. Not only is that true, some of my most beloved family members spoke like that. My grandma, "Nanny" caught "feesh" in the "crick" and hoped they'd find "url" on her poor land.

In closing, in my opinion, my OP did not use a "southern accent". There were no "druthers" or "y'alls" or any of the other smooth and soothing usages that, in my mind, characterize "southron" speech. My OP had more of a hillbilly tenor, a mode of speech with which I am personally familiar.

If we can't---"cain't"?---laugh at ourselves, we invite others to.

[ms liberty]

17. Mocking the accents of what you want to call hillbillies is punching down. It's not funny

And it insults those who speak like that. I don't know what your intent was; I can only judge by what you do or have done.

[Atticus]

18. One of the blessings of this nation and this board is that you are entitled to voice

that opinion.

[Solly Mack]

13. No. Just No.

[Phentex]

15. This is offensive...

I am sorry that you can't see it.

[Horse with no Name]

19. I have a southern accent

And I live in the south and I’m not offended.
I am offended that we are going to lose everything under the Democratic watch and that is because of Manchin.

[Atticus]

20. ADDENDUM and closing: several years ago I was drug through the DU briar patch for using

the term "pearl clutchers" to describe several people who had posted that they would not attend a DC march because they "feared counter-protesters" or words to that effect.
Now, anyone had the right to criticize me for misjudging those folks or for just plain being too rough on them. But, that was not the objection voiced by most who posted emotional "offended" responses.

Somehow, "pearl clutcher" had become a sure "tell" that I was a "homophobe". If you think you've seen that term used here several terms in the past few years without any objection, you are absolutely correct. I have been tempted several times to question why the "homophobic" nature of the term had not drawn objections when someone else used it, but I decided to "let sleeping dogs lie" and "move on". There were elections to win.

And, now, for using what I would describe as "hillbilly dialect" to point out Joe Manchin's fence-straddling attempts to placate Republicans, I find myself at the bottom of another pile of DUers OFFENDED by my "mocking and insulting" hillbillies and southernors.

I thought the professed outrage about "pearl clutchers" was sad and unfortunate.

I think this is, too. A mountain has been made out of what was never even a mole hill.