Half the south still thinks they won the Civil War. Heather Cox Richard did a weekly hour long video throughout the pandemic it's on facebook and most are up loaded to youtube - a history of the republican party and she covers the southern ideology really well. I found it very interesting and informative.
Today's chat was really good, she answered viewers questions, spending bill was one of the things she chatted about. All from a history professors perspective.

Had this “conversation” just a few weeks ago. Like the many times I’ve had it, it devolved once I referenced historical facts.

Jest because ah married mah sistuh doesn't make me backward!

Yeppp.......some of those daammnn rednecks!!

Yep. There are a lot of moronic rednecks here in the South.

Maybe it was. So what? It was 200+ years ago. Tires come in one shape and one shape only.. round. Anything else tends to be counterproductive. Societies? Not so much.

They need to go back to school.

Half of the South is completely and willfully ignorant of the history of our nation, put bluntly. Arseholes.

This is why there are good parts of the south which are very small in number compared to the ones I refer to as "cousin lovin communes" and I say this as a southerner

Only half? This is the source of all our Theocratic troubles.