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| Joined: | Wed Sep 7th, 2005 |
| Location: | Fredericksburg, Virginia USA |
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My experience in the South is that it has always been more conservative, traditional, old fashioned, religious, and ultimately simpler than the rest of the country - a trait that I personally love. I do not support slavery or the oppression of any race - in any capacity - and I do not want to sound like a southern apologist - I am very aware (and ashamed as a white man in some regards) of the sins of the past - but the South has worked very hard in a lot of ways to hold on to that romantic period of "family, faith and farms." I think this is a good thing.
My life, (and the lives of all of my children) has been so much easier and simpler, and less stressful (IMO) than the fast-paced hustle-and-bustle of anyone I know up north. I lived in PA for my first 22 years and in VA for the last 11 - AND I will (hopefully) never leave VA as it is a postcard life that I have come to treasure.
Let's put it this way, I crave living in the 19th Century (as far as having a much simpler and safer time - as opposed to today's fallen world), and this (Fredericksburg, VA) is probably the closest I will ever get.
Last edited on Fri Oct 28th, 2005 07:50 pm by MAubrecht