Blue Collar Muse

The American Princess has a fantastically funny, yet incredibly insightful, post up.  With all the talk about how Southern states are out of step with the rest of the country and how we view things so very differently, perhaps the rest of the country ought to consider adopting our views and not the other way around …

The Princess writes,

So I’ve been visiting friends in Louisiana for the last few days, partly to catch up because I haven’t seen them in forever, and partly because I love Mardi Gras and thanks to a special surprise, I was actually able to go this year and enjoy it. I love everything about the south: the food, the pace of life, the fact that my skin doesn’t get dry and that people walk around with funny hats on for no reason and don’t get self-conscious. But most of all, I love it because of interactions like this:

We were sitting around the kitchen table after Bacchus, when a two year old child came running in brandishing a toy shotgun (with real cocking and smoking action!), aiming and firing at nothing, shortly followed by his mother.

Mother: “Give me that gun!”

Child: “No!”

Mother: “Give ME THAT GUN!”

Child: “No!”

Mother takes the gun.

Child cries.

Father (from Kitchen Table): “Give him back that gun, Nancy Pelosi!”

Another child (also from Kitchen Table) bursts into tears: “Don’t call mama that, Daddy!!!”

I believe the children ARE our future.

Thank God.

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