I'm sorry, Q, that you did not enjoy the discussion.    I hope that the person holding a gun to your head forcing you to read it removes the gun soon.

I found the thread quite eye-opening regarding attitudes some people have towards anything having to do with the South.

Liberals, who claim tolerance as their watchword, are sometimes not willing, it seems, to extend this tolerance to non-liberals. it's too easy for liberals to assume the worst of anyone else not labelled clearly as liberal.

The interesting thing is that non-liberals realize this--and react accordingly.   It's my theory that this accounts in large part for the election of GWB in 2004---which I would guess liberals do recognize as a disaster. Had liberals not pressed the buttons of the other side, it might well have turned out differently-- since it was so close.