Southerners remember their history, good and bad
(09/18/02 4:00am)
As a Southerner, I feel that far too often the South is portrayed in the media as racist and backward. Nick Christie's column raised old feelings of confusion and frustration in me. His argument, if one could call it that, was a rather pitiful attempt to demonstrate generalities of the whole South, today, from specific and particular instances in the past. Christie wrote, "In the South, embarrassing truths are smoothed over." It's simply not true. Christie is a liar.