Blog Prompt for Oct. 16: Southern Reputations

Dear All,

For this blog, I want you to look at the following websites:

http://vaiden.net/convert.html

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/southernese.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English

Then I would like for you to discuss one or more of these sites' treatment of Southern dialect. Does it treat the South as a monolith? Does it utilize a "strategy of condescention" (as mentioned on page 208 of your reading), or does it respect Southern dialects?

There is one big rule for this blog: You must cite Rosina Lippi-Green ("Hillbillies, Rednecks, and Southern Bells") at least once in the blog, and you must integrate the quotation artfully into the paper -- no dropping! (If you missed class and do not know what "dropping" is, read section MLA-3 on how to integrate sources into your writing.)