November 07, 2003

Joyner Goes Duck Hunting

James Joyner responds to Howard the Duck's southern bashing:

Dean has a rather stereotypical view of the average Southerner. Yes, there are a lot of men in the South driving pickup trucks with a gun rack, a pinch of Copenhagen between their cheek and gums, who are quite culturally conservative. Of course, there are a fair number of people like that in Vermont, too. (I suspect they didn't vote for Howard Dean, either.) But just as everyone in Vermont isn't a fat socialist who makes overpriced ice cream, neither is every Southerner an unthinking redneck. Considering that it's virtually impossible to get elected president without winning a Southern state or too, Dean might want to get down there a little more and talk to some people.