Civil disagreements, with Lynne Varner and Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times editorial board, is a weekly feature of the Ed Cetera blog. Here Lynne gets annoyed about the disparagement of Southerners, and Bruce doesn't.

Lynne Varner, left, and Bruce Ramsey

Lynne Varner: Bruce, enough already! One more joke about a Southern airplane mechanic who dips snuff, has a lazy hound dog and couldn't build a plane if his life depended on it and I'll scream.

Okay I'm back. My throat is a little sore, but I digress. Puget Sounders are an educated, tolerant lot and I know most don't really believe people from the South are stupid or inbred. So it is a little too convenient to invoke those stereotypes when we're angry.

I know what you're thinking Bruce. We can't make fun of minority groups, gays or people who are overweight. Jokes on the elderly come off as mean; people who make fun of kids are bullies. So who's left? No one. Just as it should be.

Bruce Ramsey: C'mon, Lynne. These people took the second Boeing 787 production line from us. Wasn't that mean? If they wanted to be nice they would have taken the Viaduct instead, or maybe the Pierce County Board of Public Health. They took our airplane line. So we tell a few jokes about their moonshine and their snoozing dogs. These are people who eat boiled peanuts. Let's not be too nice to them, at least not yet.