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Where Does the South End?

Akagi2 Wrote: Sep 22, 2009 7:10 PM

I bet if Georgia did the same with our water sitting in Lake Lanier and Lake Allatoona and the like you and many of the residents of Alabamastan would take a different view. Many here have suggeted the Governor order the Georgia National Guard to seize the dams at Lanier and Allatoona and stop of idiotic fools at the US Army Corps of Engineers (why don't you all go find mines and IEDs in Iraq or something...the hardway)for sending the vast majority of Georgia's water supply so worthless shellfish won't go thirsty. While the Purple Bankclimber was getting its drink, millions of common shellfish in lake Lanier were dying, let along the people it was forcing out of business.

It has been Fish and Wildlife and federal judges that have...

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Where Does the South End?

Dear Old Friend,

It was wholly a pleasure to hear your theory about where the South ends, probably because any theory about the South will get a conversation going around dinner tables, at barber shops, in graduate seminars on Southern history, and just about anywhere else in these talkative latitudes.

Your theory is that the South ends where the last monument to the Confederate soldier can be seen. This would mean that Bentonville, up in the far northwest corner of Arkansas, and known far and wide as the capital of Wal-Mart, qualifies as Southern. This might comes as a...

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