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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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Ok......not disagreeing with the core concept of your list. But how/why is a nascar driver the one that you used for extra emphasis, rather then being a supporting cast? If anything I don't even understand why he's even on the list. What am I not getting here?
I know it seems silly, but Dale Earnhardt is someone you do not speak ill of in the southeastern United States if you value your safety.
'Number 3' has a particularly high level of reverence amongst folks from the south of all opinions and philosophies, the others are by far more historically relevant but "Raise Hell Praise Dale!" is a rallying cry for proud people of the south and has been since he started racing. He was also pretty based politically: working class champion, ripped down a confederate flag he had flown immediately after it was explained to him what it meant to black Americans versus what he had been taught at a time in which most didn't bat an eye at that sort of thing. The only person on the list that will elicit a more emphatic reaction from a person from that part of the country is Dolly Parton.
Also, I think I've seen a lot of leftist memes featuring dale.
You for sure have, he probably wasn't a straight up communist or anticapitalist but for a southern NASCAR driver he was about as woke as anyone during that time.
I knew he was a friend of the working class, but goddamn, that's based
Dale Earnhardt is worshipped like a demigod in the South.
He is Christ on earth.
I think my dad still had shirts of his that he routinely wore 20+ years after death
What's this "like" shit, yankee?
I ain't no fucking yankee, I'm as much a Tarheel as Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty. I'm not personally willing to promote Dale any higher than Richard, so I'm afraid he's going to have to be happy with the rank of King.
Shucks, a fellow local of the BBQ state(uncontested). I don't get too specific about my origin on federated media, but you can easily say that I'm as North Carolinian as lung cancer.
State fruit: Tobacco.