"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said. "They think people who are polite and nice are dumb."
I remember moving to Illinois from the high plains of Texas when I was 9 years old. We marveled at the ridicule we received from the local farming community because of our accents, cowboy boots, etc. I was called a dumb hillbilly. I guess they had never seen Levelland, Texas. One of our neighbors was in his seventies and had never been outside of two counties there in Illinois and yet was an authority on how backwards and racist all of us "southerners" were. So I can sort of understand where Mr. Ingrahm is coming from.
My hometown is Pensacola, Fla. My family goes back in that town to 1783. The biggest problem we had down there was the Yankee retirees (obvious in their shorts, black socks and sandals) telling us about how they didn't like the way we did things there and how much better they did things up North. It got so bad that by the time I was in college the most popular bumper sticker among our set was "If you don't like the way we do things down here, go home."