{"id":3348,"date":"2009-07-17T21:54:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T01:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2009-07-18T07:42:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T11:42:17","slug":"southern-born-southern-bred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/17\/southern-born-southern-bred\/","title":{"rendered":"southern born, southern bred…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Growing up in East Tennessee and North Georgia, I always thought of myself as Southern. But as my circle of experience widened, and I realized that I was from Appalachia, not "The South." "The South" was something I knew from Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor – those strange Gothic stories  that seemed to be about some historical period I’d never known. Then I spent time in places like Charleston, New Orleans, Memphis, Mississippi, and I learned that that flair for flamboyant characters and intrigue lived on even into the present. No place does better drama than our Old South, and we’ve certainly seen that play out recently. <\/div>\n

First, South Carolina’s Governor disappears, turning out to be having an affair in Argentina while the first lady summers on Sullivan’s Island with his four sons. And he turns out to be connected to an obscure secretive Christian something-or-another called C Street in Washington – as was a philandering Nevada Senator recently outed for his own affair with his best friend’s wife. Now, only weeks later, a recently retired young up-and-coming Congressman from Mississippi, Chip Pickering, former resident at C Street himself, has turned down a Senate appointment and divorced his wife [five sons] to be with his long time lover and college girlfriend [recently divorced from her Psychiatrist husband]. Pickering’s wife is now suing his new [old] flame for alienation of affections.<\/p>\n

This is scandal at its best! All you have to do to make it into a southern novel is have C Street turn out to be a front for the Klan and for Governor Sanford and Congressman Pickering to unknowingly be half brothers, spawn of a traveling revivalist in a previous generation… <\/div>\n
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“C” Is for Cheater<\/strong><\/a>
By: emptywheel
July 16, 2009<\/div>\n

If I were the wife of one of the boys shacking up at C Street who had not yet admitted an extramarital affair, I’d be getting nervous<\/strong><\/a> about now.<\/p>\n