MetaFilter posts tagged with dixie

it tore me up every time I heard her drawl

plexi — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:14:19 -0800

100% is pure Dixie. Someone has taken the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey to task in a vital area.

The Right (wing) to Voice an Opinion

CameraObscura — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:53:18 -0800

Clear Channel backs Rush Limbaugh regarding his comment about troops who speak out against the war as being "phony soldiers." Clear Channel CEO Mark P. Mays said in a letter to Rep. Harry Reid: "While I certainly do not agree with all views that are voiced on our stations, I will not condemn our talent for exercising their right to voice them," Mays wrote. This appears to be a flip-flop from when Clear Channel blacklisted the Dixie Chicks.

The Devil went down to Georgia

The Jesse Helms — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:49:16 -0800

In Georgia public schools, the Bible is the textbook. Georgia would become the first to require its Department of Education to put in place a curriculum to teach the history and literature of the Bible. Schools would use the book itself as the classroom textbook. Specifically the bill would establish electives on both the New and Old Testaments.

Found something cool on the web and want to share it with everyone else

thirteenkiller — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:23:41 -0800

Peruse The Geographical Reader for Dixie Children and contemplate the manner in which the greater body of man has improved his intellect these past seven-score years and two.