Yeah, jts, exactly... Part of the South's problem is that it has never recovered from having it's educated class wiped out in the unCivil War... These people would have been the first to get it... But those that didn't get killed became imbittered by the loss of their wealth, their status and a dozen years on Union occupation... Didn't leave much in the way of folks with Southern manners which are, for the most part, a myth...

Southerners propagate lots of myths when it comes to race... I've heard the myth that Southern whote folks "get along" better with black folks because whites in the South have lived with black people longer... That is a big dumbass myth... Just as this "Heritage, not hate" myth... And even those white kids who go to Southern colleges ain't comin' out with any degree of enlightenment... Just degrees... I know, I got a couple of them (degrees from Southern universities, that is)...

So, bottom line, Southern manners ain't all they are cracked up to be unless it's whites with whites...

"We say grace and we say mam
If you ain't into that
we don't give a damned..."

Yeah, that's purdy much it for Southern manners... Hank hit the nail right on the head there in that they "don't give a damned"... Great manners, huh???

B~