Archive for March 26th, 2010

Bless their hearts…

Friday, March 26th, 2010

So I’m browsing Fark and run across this headline:

[ARTICLE] [FAIL] In a move that will upset nobody, repressed white southerners want to declare themselves “Confederate Southern Americans” on the census. Try “hillbillies,” guys, it’s got a nicer ring

And I immediately start thinking:  “Please don’t be South Carolina… Please don’t be South Carolina…”

The South Carolina-based Southern Legal Resource Center believes that people with ancestors who were citizens of the Confederate States of America should be entitled to ethnic identity and protection [under the Civil Rights Act] since the country no longer exists.

Since I can’t really think of anything else to say, I’m just going to leave this here: