[aaronem]

How on Earth did this make the front page? I mean, it's not that I ever get tired of seeing Massachusetts Yankees and California carpetbaggers use a magazine named after my hometown to tell us Southrons what they demand that we be, but I am somewhat surprised to see it here, of all places. Perhaps I shouldn't be.

[dajohnson89]

The author, while indeed born in Massachusetts, is by all accounts a Southerner. Check her bio -- she even got her M.A. at Mississippi.

I just came here to say what an excellent piece of writing this was. I won't even dignify the rest of your comment, and honestly having read it here saddens me.

[dang]

HN is for anything of intellectual interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Many of the comments you've been posting to Hacker News are bilious. Please don't do that—it poisons the discourse, and we're looking for good conversation.