Comments on: South Carolina: A True Leader in Reminding Bitches That They Ain’t Shit

By: ilyka

ilyka — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:20:50 +0000

If anyone knows of a place on the web where a conservative even mentions these trends I would love to see it.

To my knowledge, they don’t mention them. If they were to, they’d do so indirectly. That is, they’d link this post, for example, and from it launch a whine that there go the latte limousine liberals again, condescending to stouthearted, decent rural Americans. Which is why this–

Stop fucking your siblings.

–is the sort of cheap shot I avoid, just personally. I don’t like giving ‘em ammunition. Your mileage may vary.

By: mes

mes — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:22:42 +0000

This reminds me of an article a few months ago in Vanity Fair called “Red State Babylon”. It brought together data in all kinds of maps and charts detailing how the most conservative states are overwhelmingly the ones with the poorest economies, the highest infant mortality rates, and a host of other bad things. The more conservative the states are, the worse their numbers get.
I googled the name of this article several times looking for a conservative’s response to it but found nothing. I’m intrigued about what they could POSSIBLY have to say about it. If anyone knows of a place on the web where a conservative even mentions these trends I would love to see it.

By: flea

flea — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:19:26 +0000

Don’t forget the movement to create a Christian theocracy in SC.

Christian Theocracy, or the people who want to move there in order to get enough votes to have South Carolina segregate from the union again?

To be fair, if it’s the latter, most native South Carolinians find this embarrassing.

Again, to be fair, if most South Carolinians weren’t so batshit insane the segregationists wouldn’t find the state so appealing.

And Nell, I always cringe when SC’s flaws are laid out on the table like this. It makes it very difficult to talk about the parts of the state that you love.

I grew up ten miles away from the Savannah River Plant, America’s number one shopping destination for refined Plutonium. The local papers censored reports of every single spill. I didn’t even know what the plant did until I moved out of state. Sigh. I can’t wait until the tumors start to grow!

By: Perkyshai

Perkyshai — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:29:02 +0000

I love congratulating prolifers on their adoptions. Then watching the confusion.

By: Nell

Nell — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:12:37 +0000

As someone born and raised in South Carolina, who still lives here, I often protest that we have an undeservedly bad reputation. But when some of the worst shit about my state is listed like this, it makes me quite embarassed and wonder what the hell is wrong with my neighbors.

By: Antigone

Antigone — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:49:37 +0000

Don’t forget the movement to create a Christian theocracy in SC.

By: Chicklet

Chicklet — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:14:57 +0000

Well Jill, about seven years ago South Carolina finally got around to removing the confederate flag from atop their statehouse. This was 135 years after the end of the civil war and 130 years after the 15th amendment was passed

Memo to Confederate flag-wavers:

You lost. Get over it. Stop fucking your siblings.

By: Mortified

Mortified — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:30:25 +0000

I do have to say that although SC did remove the flag from atop the Statehouse, it is now in front of the Statehouse.

There is currently a bill that when intially introduced would force a woman to view a picture of her ultrasound before she was able to access an abortion. Now, after 7 hours of public testimony it has been changed to say that “she has the option” to view the ultrasound. According to the authors, “So she can have all the information necessary to make an ‘informed’ decision.”

http://www.scstatehouse.net/cgi-bin/query.exe?first=DOC&querytext=S%2084&category=Legislation&session=117&conid=2797375&result_pos=0&keyval=1170084

Sometimes there is just nothing more to say.

By: OlderWiserFuckAlltoShowForIt

OlderWiserFuckAlltoShowForIt — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:55:06 +0000

Lord, Flea, you scared me to death. I’d just been thinking maybe we should try to organize an underground railroad to get women out of there and then I read your comment as saying you lived there now. “No, God, not one of ours! Get her out!”

I realize that this sounds like I’m buying into the idea that we abandon whole states that have fallen this far and just try to save the women who want to get out. I know that’s not an answer. For one thing, I do care about the born.

By: lConservativel

lConservativel — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:09:12 +0000

Well Jill, about seven years ago South Carolina finally got around to removing the confederate flag from atop their statehouse. This was 135 years after the end of the civil war and 130 years after the 15th amendment was passed…. So given that the 19th amendment was passed in 1920, perhaps we can hope to see South Carolina get with the fucking program with regard to women’s rights by about 2050-2055. Sarcasm aside, your right, they are some kind of backwards and it shouldn’t be tolerated.