This is a cute article giving Howard Dean some advice on how to talk to his Southern constituents.
Whistling Dixie: Howard, honey, here's how to sweeten up your act
<< Howard, if you were a Southerner, you would never call your future constituents rednecks. You would win them over by descriptions of your grandma's fried apple turnovers, or recalling a moment in which you begged Jesus Christ to help you, or by confessing your love for a Johnny Cash song. ...
<< My spiritual teacher, Jill Conner Browne, head of the Sweet Potato Queens of Jackson, Miss., said that if you really think that so-and-so is a complete psychobitch, you just say, "That so-and-so. Bless her little heart," since we Southerners can't actually say what we think in polite society. All the women will know what we really mean, and all the men will still think we're nice proper ladies. ...
<< One problem with George W. Bush is that he was raised by Yankees in Texas.
<< No wonder he doesn't talk right. ... Still, he's our president. Bless his little heart. >>
I wonder if hawnsmith will also find this article "condescending."
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