Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Of bootleggers and butter whores

Southerners are better at cognitive dissonance.

Yankees are shocked, shocked I say! that someone with diabetes and a tee-vee show would advocate lifestyle choices that will surely send her and many others to an early grave.

The first thought of many Southerners (including me) when they heard Paula Deen had "the sugar" was to wonder how many, if any, sweets she eats now.

This, after all, is the region that gave us moonshine-running Baptist preachers. My great grandpa was one, and the reaction from most Southerners when they hear that is to shrug shoulders and say, "Well, he had a lot of kids to feed."

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