Nashville is about 25% yankee these days
I guess we got the bad driving ones from Michigan and Ohio
I’ve lived up north they definitely are more prepared and experienced for snow
Besides that the issues south of the say Bowling Green KY latitude is
Lack of removal and salting equipment
Nobody has snow tires
Nobody has chains
And the South gets usually bad quality frozen precip
Ice or frozen rain or wet snow
I myself a Deep South raised guy with a lot of new yoik and mountain snow experience drive very good in it
Atlanta which I think that pic is from as well has very high yankee migrant quotient
Since I grew up in and learned to drive in Ohio, I contend your bad driving Yankees are all from Michigan. You know them because they all drive in the left lane (no matter what speed they are going) and never dim their brights..
While I can understand the extenuating circumstances with snow south of, say, the Duck River what I really can't understand is drivers from around here (where we DO have real snow, sleet, freezing glop, and other assorted winterlike things on a frequent basis post Thanksgiving til about National Atheists Day) who think they can drive their all-wheel-drive vehicles in such stuff without modifying their driving habits.
Just a few days ago after a snow (which disappeared the next day when the solar heater appeared in the heavens) a local in her white SUV took the corner (a 'T' intersection) at the foot of my driveway as if the pavement were dry. She turned, or tried to but her SUV, in total obedience to the laws of physics - including but not limited to conservation of momentum and variables including the coefficient of friction, continued in an only slightly modified heading from her original vector of motion. She ended up obliterating the stop sign with her driver's door and resting at a non-salubrious angle in the ditch from which her four wheel drive was powerless to free her. But at least once all motion had ceased her vehicle was facing in her intended direction..
And then there are the NYC dwellers for whom even a quarter inch of rain is a major obstacle. But they're a special case since most of them are liberals.