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It is crazy that the American south is still like this
Should have Year Zero'd them in 1865. Hang every plantation owner and Confederate officer, shut down every bank that funded slave purchases, break up the plantations and distribute the land to the freed slaves. May Andrew Johnson burn in hell.
Tbf there's the South and there's Alabama and Mississippi South.
And Louisiana, sometimes. And Georgia, obviously. Florida.
Texas... Okay, it's the whole South.
But at least that cancer hasn't spread to the Midwestern states!
Ohio checking in.......why do we have confederate flags in northern Ohio? Hell the only thing seperating us from Canada is a god damn lake!!! How much more north can you get???
It's the same across all the Midwest - Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas... I don't even think the Dakotas were states during the Civil War, but there's the loser-traitor flag all over across the upper Midwest.
I went to Ohio to visit family as a teen in the 90s and it was normal. I went again as an adult and suddenly everyone I wasn't related to had a southern accent and was very....banjo duel....
WTF happened to you Ohio?!
Heroin.
Alaska?
Touche
I seem to recall that you guys and Michigan had a "war" over that exact question......
Oh yeah.....we lost. We got stuck with toledo....
And we got the beautiful, mineral-rich upper peninsula. Pretty good trade in the end!
Nova Scotia here, even we’ve got ‘em.
And Arkansas. Been through that state and in some of those small towns, as much as they don’t want to be known that way, it’s true.
The KKK Embraces Diversity in Harrison, Arkansas
Except of course for parts of Michigan. Missouri. Ohio. Iowa. Rural Illinois and Minnesota...
Fuck, how's the northeast doing?
Maryland checking in from east central (mideast just did not sound right).
Indiana. Don't forget that South Bend is basically the home of the third wave of the Klan.
During the peak of the Second Klan in the 20’s, roughly 1/3 white people in Indiana were Klan members.
The only time I think about Indiana is memorial day weekend and I want to keep it that way.