While I may not be the biggest Amy Grant fan... well, this says it best:


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKwOByDgW3I"]YouTube- Amy Grant Tender Tennessee Christmas[/ame]

That guy is everywhere. One of these days, I'm gonna be "that guy". My big want in life is to be the bauld p-nut guy. We all gotta have goals, yanno?

Oh, and by the way, here is the CSA website link, just in case anyone THOUGHT this wasn't a racist website, yeah right: http://www.confederatestatesofameric...asterindex.htm

Pretty funny, through out it keeps saying "This is NOT a racist website". Well, gee, if it wasn't why the heck do you keep saying that? Duhhhh.

Oh, and by the way, I can take everything this "non-racist" website says, and cite proof that disproves it. So, please, try me. I have nothing else better to do. And a huge academic data base or two to smack you down with. Try me.

Maybe the flag in itself is not racist, but for me, as long as there is a perception of racism, I can't fly it or have anything to do with it.

It does irk me a bit when people outside the South completely see racism and slavery as a Southen issue.

and while we are on the subject of things that irk me...laugh.
It irks the HELL out of me when someone calls me a Southern Belle.
VOMIT
I was not presented at a debutant ball and would not want to be and do not live on a plantation. :angry:

Aside from those stars and bars as a symbol of slavery and racism; it is also a symbol of a group of States who seceded from the United States......traitors to this country during the Civil War and today.

What I find ironic is the same folks who believe in 'America love it or leave it' think the US was founded as a Christian nation, and wear little US flag lapel pins are also the same ones who belong to the CSA and fly and defend the flag of traitors.

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by the way.....we drink sweet tea in the southwest also......actually I thought we in the southwest invented sweet tea.......laughin....

OK, so the Smokey Mountains!

One of the things I love about the South is the closeness to so many different things. Hills, mountains, beaches, lakes, waterfalls, scenic drives, and so much history!

From the Border Islands to Key West, to Beale Street, to Dallas, to Little Rock, Dauphin Island, Disney World, Atlanta....I could on and on and on....the Everglades, Miami, Athens (all of them), New Orleans.......

But the best part of all, is it usually is not hella cold. :)

You just think that stuff you drink out there is sweet tea, Toughy. hah!
You can't even find real sweet tea west of the Mississippi. And I include Texas in that. Putting sugar into the tea after you get the cup doesn't make it real sweet tea. LOL


And the choir said, "Amen" to that sista!

Sweet tea in Tennessee has more sugar in it than actual tea. It's kind of a syrup watered down by ice. You don't add the sugar with a spoon, you use a measuring cup or 2, or 3.

What I don't get is iced coffee??? WTH?

I thought this was commonly referred to as "Jack Daniel's". ;)

When I was a kid we lived in Argentina, when we would visit Nashville, my mom would make bean bags of grits and pinto beans to smuggle them into Argentina. I still think of grits as a special treat!

Yummy! My grandmother said Jack was medicinal and actualy added sugar to it!
I am a Jim Beam girl myself! :) or Maker's for holidays.

I do the same thing. I make it hot, let it cool a bit and guzzle. Ice in it is WEIRD. Like today. its 40 degrees and one of my Ohio co-workers has some iced coffee with whipped cream on it? Yuck.

Grainy scum is gross!

I love love love mojitos!

and

I want pecan pie. Now.

Do y'all say pEEcan oor peCAn?

Uh, peCAHN, of course. And it's PRAWlines, not PRAYlines.


/native Louisianian

I say peCahn, but praylines! :)