ok, i'm not from the south

i'm from the absolute opposite. not just the north, but new england. i effing know what the term 'uppity' meant and still to this day means. westmoreland was born and raised and still lives (and serves) in georgia. does he really think anyone is buying he didn't know about the 'uppity' racial overtones?
(i posted the original story yesterday)
what a crock of steamin' shite

GOP lawmaker defends use of 'uppity' to describe Obama
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A Republican congressman from Georgia who referred to Barack and Michelle Obama as "uppity" says he wasn't aware of the term's racial overtones and did not intend to insult anyone.

Speaking to reporters Thursday, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Grantville, Ga., described the Obamas as members of an "elitist-class ... that thinks that they're uppity," according to The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

Asked if he intended to use the word, he said, "Yeah, uppity."

In a statement Friday, Westmoreland - who was born in 1950 and raised in the segregated South - said he didn't know that "uppity" was commonly used as a derogatory term for blacks seeking equal treatment. Instead, he referred to the dictionary definition of the word as describing someone who is haughty, snobbish or has inflated self-esteem.;....................