Democratic rivals of Presidential candidate Howard Dean are quickly taking advantage of the controversy surrounding recent Dean remarks aimed at appealing to Southern voters. Perhaps the biggest outcry though, has come from the very class that Dean had hoped to woo: poor Southern whites.

"We Southrons is plum sick'n tired of how y'all up North stereotype us to look like a pack'o backwards idiots," says Bush supporter Bubba Sorolover who is acting President of the Podunque, Alabama chapter of the Sons of Confederate Flag Wavers, in reaction to what he perceives as an insult to Southerners and their preferred mode of transport.

Speaking to reporters from a rocking chair on his front porch and shaking a gray leather kepi for emphasis, he had this to say about Dean's comments, "Howard Dean says he

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wants to be the candidate for Southern men with guns and 'Confederate Fags' in their pickups. Well I'm here to tell y'all that I ain't NEVER had no fag in my pickup!"

Sorolover says he was enraged at what he sees as both a slight against Southern manhood and an affront to trucks throughout the South.

As if to emphasize the manliness of all pro-confederate Southerners and dispel any doubts about their sexual orientation, he further stated almost beamingly, "I've had plenty of folks in my truck, underage cousins what I'd knocked up in the back mostly, and even a few bruised and bloodied niggras." "But," he continued between gulps of warm beer, "not I nor any true Southern gentleman would allow no fag in his truck! Even were he a so-called 'confederate fag'. In fact, the whole idea of a truck-riding 'confederate fag' is an insult to God-fearing Southern trucks."

Sorolover argues that the Northern image of hillbilly homo-eroticism in the deep South, as perpetuated by the liberal media and alluded to by Governor Dean is "way off" and that, in fact, by far the vast majority of Southern forced sodomizing of "strangers, Yankees, liberals, fags and what not," take place not in the deep wood, but in church basements and Waffle House parking lots. "But almost always well away from the truck."

He assured this reporter, with a faraway look in his eyes, "T'ain't no better way to teach a fag a lesson about the vile sin of homosexualism than a good ole fashioned gang corn-holing by a handfulla' REAL heterosexual truck-drivin' Southern men!"

The interview ended abruptly when Sorolover came to realize that one of the reporters was "a Jew boy" and ordered his wife to retrieve his shotgun from the truck. His truck was unavailable for comment.

Dean insists that his statements were misunderstood.