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By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Southern Baptist Church doing whatever it takes to get the heathens in the pews.
Joe Doakes
“Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built” (Nehemiah 4:17-18).
I guess that’s a form of constitutional carry…
March 6th, 2014 at 8:17 am
Somewhat related based on guns and the “South”?
Nearly ruined a keyboard when I read this earlier…
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/372697/handful-what-now-jonah-goldberg
North Dakota is a Southern State? Is the Mason-Dixon line now the Canadian Border? It was on ‘No Rant, No Slant’ NPR and they couldn’t say it if it wasn’t true. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D); just another Miss Anne.
Come on Mitch! We know “y’all” NoDakian’s have a Rebel Yell just bottled up inside you. Let it out!
March 6th, 2014 at 8:43 am
“North Dakota is a Southern State? Is the Mason-Dixon line now the Canadian Border?”
With a standard for veracity like this it won’t be too long before NPR hires DG to write their copy.
March 6th, 2014 at 9:36 am
it won’t be too long before NPR hires DG to write their copy.
Meet Catherine Richert.
March 6th, 2014 at 9:39 am
Well, part of it might be. In Minnesota, for example, deer hunting is shotgun slug South of I-94 and rifle North of I-94. Might not be called Mason-Dixon, but it’s just as sharp a divide.
I, having learned from my elders in the South Of I-94, know and practice the proper way of deer hunting. And yes, when we get a deer, there’s quite a holler.
Wouldn’t surprise me if North Dakota had a similar North-South split.
March 6th, 2014 at 10:06 am
It is my understanding that most variations of Christianity, like the NRA and law abiding gun owners, do not object to guns. Their objections deal with the guns’ misuse.
“So we get in there and burp and scratch and talk about the right to bear arms and that stuff.” Sounds like their “outreach to rednecks” is hardly an open-armed endorsement, and acceptance, of gun owners.
“We are advocating guns for hunting and protection only” seems to exclude target shooters and collectors.
I would have expected a more intelligent and better-informed indication of understanding and acceptance from a KY clergyman. I guess it’s better than the opposite reaction.
March 6th, 2014 at 10:11 am
Wouldn’t surprise me if North Dakota had a similar North-South split
The Dakotas are east-west. East is mostly farming (and, now, business and technology). West is mostly cattle and (now) oil. There’s a legit case that there should be an East and West, rather than North and South, Dakota.
March 6th, 2014 at 10:22 am
South Dakota is very much West River/East River. They even say “East River” and “West River” like we say “Up North” in MN. I’m not sure how the business market split is like you describe of NoDak, but culturally it’s very much the same, East=farmer, West=cowboy. I don’t think there’s too much oil business in West SoDak. I could be mistaken on that tho.
source: (socially and somewhat politically active on a municipal level) Mother in law has lived in Huron for 25 years.
March 6th, 2014 at 10:47 am
Bill C – no, you got it. Being from Jamestown, I don’t remember any slang, but the farmer/cowboy thing was alive and well.
I think they’re doing just a tiny bit of oil exploration in the SD badlands. There might be a rig or two…
March 6th, 2014 at 11:10 am
“Might not be called Mason-Dixon, but it’s just as sharp a divide.”
Have to tell you Nate that when I moved here 10 years ago I was advised by real estate agents that Minnesota South of I-94 might as well be Mississippi or even, ugh, Iowa.
If you went to the NPR audio link provided, the “Southern Democrats” note comes right in the first 10 seconds of audio. Got to love Linda Worthheimer reading that with absolutely no hint that what she is saying is B.S.
March 6th, 2014 at 11:17 am
“it won’t be too long before NPR hires DG to write their copy.”
Likely the reason Shot In the Darks’ own Miss Anne, Dog Gone, is so poorly informed is she considers NPR/MPR right wing. You’ve got to go to “Democracy Now” for her brand of crazy.
March 6th, 2014 at 11:48 am
Bill C – thanks for the explanation. I sat through a Sensitivity Training course in which the presenter explained that we should be patient with Indians from South Dakota because they operated on West River time. We all sat there looking at her, uncomprehending, until she said “That joke’s a lot funnier back home; moving on . . . ” Never did understand it until now.
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March 6th, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Noticed that Instapundit picked this up. NPR probably had an Instalanche (for once) and has edited “Southern” out of the clip. Hopefully, what with this being the 21st Century, someone, somewhere cached it.
NoDakian’s will have to content themselves with the idea that one time State Radio considered them “Americans by Choice and Southerners by God’s Grace”. But they can still go huntin’ for some food and up through the ground will come a bubblin’ crude, oil that is.
March 6th, 2014 at 1:13 pm
“God, guns and good ol’ boys,”
Good people clinging to guns and religion, can’t see anything wrong with that.