Trading in Stereotypes

Tony Blankley is a smart guy and he is probably right that John Kerry is in trouble. But this column makes too much of northern stereotypes of South Carolina.

I've been to South Carolina. In fact, I was there just a few weeks ago at a barbecue stand. There was a young man waiting for an order, dressed in full Confederate uniform. Inside, they were selling beautiful color tee shirts which portrayed General Robert E. Lee in battle uniform on his fierce white horse leading a magnificent confederate charge against the Yankee intruders.

South Carolinians only begrudgingly recognized the command authority of the U.S. Army. Somehow, I don't think calling, yet again, for the grand old dream of liberal internationalism is going to be a winner in South Carolina — even amongst its Democratic voters.

And sometimes he just gets it flat wrong.

Down the road a piece from that stand was a restaurant named The Swamp Fox — which I believe invokes the fond memory of Confederate guerrillas sneaking up on Yankee encampments to deliver justice to the blue bellies from Maine, Michigan and Massachusetts

The Swamp Fox was Francis Marion and he was a Revolutionary War commander-- one of the figures used to create the character played by Mel Gibson in The Patriot.

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