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In reply to the discussion: "Why Do So Many Southerners Think They're the Only Real Americans?" [View all]applegrove
(118,501 posts)2. If anger makes them prone to being unrealistic..no wonder they get so
Last edited Fri Sep 14, 2012, 07:47 PM - Edit history (1)
whipped up by GOP fear and lies. Because they react with anger they keep their territory intact (their world view) and never see the shades of grey. It is said that with sadness one perceives the world or oneself is not perfect, accepts the loss, and adjusts one's thinking. Perhaps Southerners have had to suppress their sadness to get through tough times in history with fight (anger) instead. Still suppression of any important emotions is not appropriate for this modern era. It is an old time coping skill.
*Edited to add: I don't know if I should be using the word 'suppression' rather than 'sublimation'.
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"Why Do So Many Southerners Think They're the Only Real Americans?" [View all]
applegrove
Sep 2012
OP
Everyone has blind spots. Still, there is a part of the country that continually votes against
applegrove
Sep 2012
#5
FYI-That shop is now owned by an African American pastor and his church.
Are_grits_groceries
Sep 2012
#11
Feudal is a good word for the old confederacy, and perhaps the entire country ...
twins.fan
Sep 2012
#34
I find this "True American" crap offensive after the shit they pulled in 1861.
Odin2005
Sep 2012
#17
When I was little I knew a woman whose great-grandfather fought at Gettysburg.
Odin2005
Sep 2012
#20
Often insults such as yours reflect more on the person issuing the insult than the ones to whom ...
twins.fan
Sep 2012
#40
because their voting patterns saddle the rest of us with GOP Presidents and congresses
scheming daemons
Sep 2012
#25
Personally, I have read the words of many of the contributors here, word for word, ...
twins.fan
Sep 2012
#45
I did read the article, and I consider the people about whom the author writes are nuts ...
twins.fan
Sep 2012
#49
Orly Taitz from California. Leo Donofrio, Mario Apuzzo and Philip Berg from New Jersey.
hack89
Sep 2012
#61
What a disgusting, divisive article. At one point the author asks if anyone has
1monster
Sep 2012
#43
By using anger to suppress sadness at harsh realities, they are not growing up.
applegrove
Sep 2012
#65
I've read it all but it was ten years ago. Still have the books so I'll probably read again
deaniac21
Sep 2012
#94