Nice essay from Patterson Hood via Bitter Southerner.

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has something to do with who's doing the reporting

Aug 21, 2013, 12:46 PM [ in reply to Agree 100%*** ]

and where all the national new outlets are. They don't really understand southern distinctiveness, so they look for weird little things to report on and ignore everything else.

I'm not really sure what the "bitterness" is that they're looking for over at bittersoutherner, but all three of the first three essays make me skeptical. Are they bitter because of outsiders' perception of "the duality of the southern thing," or are they bitter because of "the duality of the southern thing?" So much of what's new about the New South is unquestionably good, but your average southerner is much more likely to recognize than other Americans that newness for the sake of novelty is not a good thing.

The first essay from the editor and Patterson Hood's essay seem to suggest that everything traditional about the south, everything that makes the south different, ought to melt into the "new cultures" it comes in contact with. Their bitterness seems to be more about embarassment that the south isn't more like everywhere else, and that "those guys" make fun of us for it, than it is about telling the #### yankees they can go on back to Ohio or whatever crumbling bit of the rust belt they came from if they don't like it.

To be sure, we need as much self- criticism as we need defiance and rebellion, but I'm not sure that bitter southerners are much different than people like the writer of the second essay, who might want to enjoy southern culture but who also want to tell us how they do everything better where they came from (admittedly, the essay doesn't say anything like that, but after the first and third essay one wonders why they picked a transplant from Pennsylvania to write the second essay, and the first one on food and drink).

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and his vision of the south. He saw Alabama as Muscle Shoals, with all the black soul singers coming in a making awesome records, and people outside the south saw George Wallace frothing from the mouth. He sees Athens as a progressive southern town open to new ideas, but everyone sees the jackwagon that represents his district in congress as the representative of his area. People see "The South" as George Wallace and Strom Thurmond and whatever conservative ideologue is screaming and frothing and saying ignorant things to rile up the ignorant base. This is not his vision and experience nor my vision or experience in "the south". Granted, it is a part of "The South" but it doesn't tell the entire story.

This pic is sweet

Was his political reference about women without whiskey?***

Thanks for sharing.

GREAT read!***

Southern Rock Opra is by far my favorite DBT album

Agree 100%***

Whale, except SRO being the best DBT Album, that should be

I would prolly put Dirty South and SRO as 1 and 1a

Alabama A$$ Whuppin' might be my favorite

has something to do with who's doing the reporting

I think he doesn't think the people elected represent him

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SRO has some great stuff but some is so bad, imo,

Danko/Manuel - RIP Isbell Era Truckers***

That was third***

Read that, and enjoyed it

They'll probably have ot next week.

Thanks for that, Snuffy. One of my favorite bands....didn't

Re: Nice essay from Patterson Hood via Bitter Southerner.

Missed the slamming

Re: Missed the slamming

Ok, so what

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