The South has lost again

Friends, family and random people I get to talk to visiting different places in the world always asks me if Southerners are as close minded and conservative as they have heard. I always answer that the war is still going on for a few of them. As a response I get a chuckle and I thought so.

As an alien in the South it is hard to be accepted in to a society of " good old boys". Fortunately there are less of them but once in awhile you come across some pretty obvious evidence of who still has a battle flag in his front yard.

And I can't understand a mentality like that, as I see it they are the ones loosing out in a great community. After all, we do live in a great place with people from all over who is here to make it an even better place to live.

From today's Post and Courier;

'Yankee' team?

Being a proud Southerner, there are certain things that get under my skin. One is, as a proud Southern town, how can we allow our local minor-league baseball team, whose baseball park is named after very Southern Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. to be part of the New York Yankees farm system? Do we not have any pride in our heritage?

Granted, while our team was an affiliate of the San Diego Padres, the Texas Rangers and the Tampa Bay Rays, we did not fare very well, and now the team appears to be decent. However, many other parent clubs could have given us competitive teams, but it looks as though the South has lost again.

I'd like to thank the very Northern Mike Veeck for allowing this to happen.

I've got an idea for a game day promotion for Mike. He can get in his car and make the drive back up Interstate 95.

T H

Charleston