What I make of it is that until such time as the southerners of good conscience elect like-minded representatives who don’t talk secession and tear down the country, the odd example of sanity is meaningless, though well appreciated. After all, these losers aren’t just holding the South down, they’re stunting the growth of the entire nation. And any cursory survey of state standings with respect to education, health care, and the like consistently show the secessionist South at the bottom of the barrel.
The entire “states rights” nonsense comes from the slave states, though granted it’s spread to right wing enclaves like portions of Colorado. And as far as homophobic attitudes go, it’s little different here in the rural north of the Mason-Dixon line, but at least we don’t have to contend with this ridiculous “southern pride” over traitorous acts to defend wealthy landowners’ perceived right to own other human beings. One video hardly negates the consensus.
So for me, as soon as the South starts celebrating “Confederate Shame Month” get back to me. I suspect that this video is not very popular in Alabama.
EDIT: I would amend this only to say that the South, like here in rural PA, is chock full of totally lovely people. I lived in Georgia, and nowhere else in all my travels have I had strangers passing on the street look me in the eye and ask me how I was doing… not rhetorically or out of social pressure to be polite, but actually engaging me and fully expecting an answer. I’m certain you and I could sit ourselves down at a Waffle House and have ourselves some coffee and whatever they try to pass off as grits and have a great time. But we share a problem, and I think yours is even more profound than mine.