I was born, and attempted to grow up, in Colorado. If the truth be told I'm still working on that process. To this day I'll still pick up my electric guitar and much to my tolerant wife's dismay, crank up a DVD and my amp to play along with some of the rock guitarist hall of famers'. I have gone windsurfing in hurricanes and done many other totally insane things. I am a Southerner now, by the way, and so are all of my military children. Unlike my children who were fortunate enough to actually be born here I had to move to become a Southerner. They say home is where the heart is and my heart is in the South and has been for twenty-five years now.

     When I moved down here my neighbors had a lot of fun with me. Shortly after our arrival, we were having one of those Norman Rockwell weekends where we made ice cream with the neighbors, sitting outside listening to June bugs and crickets, and all that goes with that. A discussion started regarding yours truly. After much deliberation it was determined that I might be 'okay' since I'm technically a Westerner and not a true Yank. I confessed that I had lived on both the East and West coast for a few years each and the discussion was renewed. I suspect there was some concern that I might have been tainted or something by my time in the East. That was quite some time ago however, and I've stayed here with no serious intention of leaving whatsoever.

     Through the years we have endured quite a bit and at times considered leaving. The reasons we considered leaving weren't Southern reasons however. What was going wrong here was happening everywhere. Our School District used to be one of the best and that being the case they decided to mess with it. They got rid of memorizing math tables and phonics, introducing touch point math and sight reading, etc. You get the picture. If it was something that had worked for years they decided to try something new and stupid. The bunch responsible for that has since been run out of town on a rail for the most part and the rest have been sufficiently cowed into acting like real educators instead of facilitators in a loony bin. I suspect the remaining few who still want to be facilitators will leave eventually. What I'm talking about was the encroachment of liberal ideology into the school. Why did we stay? Well there really wasn't anywhere else to run to. The kids survived it even though they got a few bumps and scrapes.

     I do enjoy listening to those on the left coast bashing Southerners these days. I believe much of it is born out of a jealousy. Here in the South you find most of the military people or future military people. Those folks are great. Like most Southerners they don't mince words and really don't like it when somebody half states their position. It is viewed as dishonest and, more importantly, cowardly. There are some discussions that get a little heated but most of the time everything ends up with each respecting the other for being man enough to act like an opinionated idiot and not back down. Or shall I say agreeing to disagree. That is something I haven't found very often on the two left coasts. There you either agree that abortion is okay as birth control but defending ones own life isn't, or you're scorned and reviled. I truly think a lot of those people should have swastikas centered in lavender lambdas tattooed on their foreheads. I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when they call me a fascist or McCarthy clone.

     I'm not saying we don't have a few problem people here because we obviously do. But let's list and remember a few of those who trash the South regularly. We have an ex-Arkansan carpetbagger Senator in New York and her icon of virtue husband, an anti gun with a conceal carry license Senator in California known to me as Frankfeinstein, and Irreverent Jackson who has no church I have ever heard of and makes a living by shaking down honest businessmen for donations, and the list goes on and on. What I've noticed about just about all of them is a Socialist ideology and a say one thing but do another viewpoint. They are wolves in sheep's clothing. Don't say you weren't warned. They have even invented a new Constitutional 'Right'. It is the right to not have your feelings hurt. The leftists have a veritable army of lawyers to enforce their new right by suing people. They claim to support First Amendment rights but they only support their own. And they only care when their feelings are hurt.

     While I was living in the North I noticed a few things. There is a lot of racism there but it is hidden. I prefer it in the South because if there is any racism it is out in the open. One of the most amazing things created by the radical leftists is the welfare state. It is quite honestly a paid electorate and they earn their money by voting the money changers into office over and over again. A system has been created which keeps them in the position they are in. The moment they are ready to get off of the system or make that move they find their benefits cut so it's back to 'the system'. The real shocker is that if you talk to some of the more radical people in that system, they blame the conservatives for the entire thing. I have noticed that the leftist media always shows us a minority family when they speak of welfare. The last time I checked nearly eighty-five percent of the people in the welfare system were white. I just thought I'd throw in that example of the hidden racism of the leftist elite.

     Me? I plan on staying here for good, or at least until the rest of the country straightens out. It appears as though some of the states are finally beginning to wake up. I have to thank the Clintons for having done that. They represent quite nicely the pinnacle of radical liberalism in all of its arrogance and folly. They talked about doing a lot of things but accomplished nothing positive. After having seen the Clintons version of child protection in Texas I'm glad we didn't get subjected to their medical plan.

     I hear a lot of talk about secession and I'm glad the talk isn't serious. I think the better idea would be to force the fifth column communists into a few specific states and then throw them out. Why should we secede when they are the ones wrecking everything? Why don't we force them into a dialogue of seceding? All we have to do is continue to stand up to them and make them want to leave. I can assure them that there will be no war of Southern aggression. Most of us will be perfectly happy to see them go.