Southern Politics

Southern Border:

Southern "charm"

Will cuss and spit and say,

"They ar'nt the same's us," 

But our cousins are standing tall

Like our grandpas, listening, in the same room,

Who we know have the same grandmother as us,

And they have an abuela on the other side

And they share our DNA

Southern Color:

It's red. 

Red iron clay with

Red iron blood where

History knows bodies laid

Because iron ore pigs

Gave up on fitting through the eye of that pin

And wanted to keep other people as slaves.

Southern Pride:

Telling our Moms and Dads we're queer

doesn't mean they'll be loving to everybody like us.

They worship the Bible; it's affects how they think.

But in it, Jesus says to a lawyer, "Love your neighbor as yourself."

They take Jesus at his word, meaning literally...most days of the year.

So, if the neighborhood changed, say their neighbor was "a freak,"

They might have to move far, far away to avoid loving a human being.

We figure that's why folks are trying to move to Mars anyway.

Southern Food:

Cornbread, Mashed Potatoes, Peas,

Greens, Fried Chicken with Spice,

Gumbo with Okra over Rice,

Used to taste really, really nice

Now it all tastes mostly like nothin'

'Cause while grandmamma had her head turned

All the Love she used to put in the food

Got spilled out all over the floor

Then granddaddy ran in 

With a bunch of his friends

And they scooped it all up

Like they planned it or somethin'

And locked it in their gun safes.

Now nobody gets nothin', 

Not even them, I don't think,

Not even the little kids.

Been that way now for years.

Southern Hospitality:

Known for gospel air and humidity

Known for a rotting Forrest in Tennessee 

Known for warm welcomes and saying hello

Knowing for shunning Haitian kids down in Fairhope

Known for making more than enough food for everyone

Known for sundown warnings so certain folks make sure they go on home

Known for voting to take food from poor kids away... southern inhospitality, come our way

Southern Patriarchies:

Mary, the Mother of God, said

God has pulled down the arrogant and mighty from their thrones

And raised up the humble and lowly

The ones with arrogant thoughts have been scattered

The hungry have been filled with good things

Better to be scattered than shattered.

Sounds merciful to me,

More merciful than many might be