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Patriots In Atlanta
New England is in Atlanta Getting Ready for the Falcons
Are our redneck friends down south writing our news headlines y'all ?
What do you have against the south? We have a lot of idiots down here but there are idiots everywhere you go. You should know, you're one of them. Especially with this thread. Jesus...
What do you have against the south? We have a lot of idiots down here but there are idiots everywhere you go. You should know, you're one of them. Especially with this thread. Jesus...
Kontra, perchance he was referring to the literacy rate differential between North & South. Arkansas is last in literacy and that's down Dixie way.
And I still can't figure why there's never any characters on prime time American t.v. who have a southern accent. There was one on Melrose Place in the early 90's, but they wrote her outta the story after a month. A large part of the country's population speaks like that, yet where are they on a national scale?
And I spent 3 years down in Raleigh, N.C. at N.C. State and had a girlfriend from Valdosta, Georgia. Once you travel off of college campuses down there, the majority of The American Southeast is a culturally-challenged, vapid wasteland. I couldn't run back up across the Mason-Dixon Line fast enough.
Kontra, people in The South tend to know less about the rest of the world which lies outside their particular Southern County line, than people in the Northeast do. They're just not very worldly when compared to inhabitants of certain other parts of the country. Demographically, they travel less too.
One would think that it's a wonder how the south ever gets along without help from the hundreds of thousands of northern residents that migrate down here to live the rest of their lives and/or die. My parents and myself falling into that category. Your view is very, VERY far off and speaks to some sort of natural bias that you've probably had against the south your whole life. It's that kind of view that gives natural born southerners a view that most people from the north are complete douchebags, which isn't true either.
I don't think that what he was saying was universally untrue, so much as it's false to assume that it's strictly a North-South dichotomy. A lot of the south is like he described, and a lot of it isn't. OTOH, growing up in rural Maine, I can state with some authority that there are large areas of the north that have these 'southern' qualities. That said, in the time that I spent down south, I did notice some general tendencies where it tended to differ from the northeast, mid-atlantic, and west coast, and in ways that I didn't necessarily like. To say that all of the south is like that, though, or even almost all of it, is just wrong.
FWIW, though, I'm not a huge fan of SoCal either. Maybe I'm just really picky, because the pacific northwest and the northeastern seaboard (specifically, Portland ME down to NYC) are pretty much the only places in the country that I think I could live in and enjoy long term. I did like Charlotte a lot, though...
Hell, Ohio is considered a northern city
Hell, Ohio is considered a northern city and I would say that it's more "redneck" than Florida.
OK, there's a genuine regional difference. Up North, we consider Ohio a state. Who knew?