I came down to Arkansas to stay with my extended family for awhile. I fell into a job with social services that I was pretty good at for awhile; retired after 27 years working for the State.
I'm what's called a "Damn Yankee" a northerner that came to the south and stayed. As opposed to just being a good tourist and going home, but leaving my money.
So after 30 some years here I consider myself a southerner. But I have a very liberal social and political conscious that on occasion is very difficult for me to camouflage. Like the letter to the editor I wrote last week about Arkansas State University.They were told by the NCAA that they would have to change their mascot or loose out being able to play in any post season NCAA tournaments or games. You see ASU's mascot is an Indian, they are known as the Indians. Needless to say many citizens have not taken too kindly to being told that the college must change their mascot. I wrote a letter expressing my views as to why they should. That Stanford University developed a social consciousness thirty years ago and changed their name from the Stanford Indians to the Stanford Cardinals and that ASU should be able to evolve as well. My extended family was very loudly vocal in their opinion of my letter. But they know what an opinionated old broad I am and protesting somethings just comes naturally to me.
So to quote the song: "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around, turn me around. Gonna keep on a singing, gonna keep on a swinging, gonna build a brand new world"