[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

It's too bad some southerners are still fighting the civil war...

I didn't realize I was a 'yankee' until I moved here @ 8 years ago - from Wisconsin!

I've heard the statement 'you're pretty nice, for a Yankee' so many times...

Southerners (bless your hearts), please stop asking 'where you from?' when you meet people. It's rude and shouldn't really matter. (I doubt we met on the civil war battlefields...let it go!, let it go!)

I (nor my pappy or grand pappy) may have been born here, but I got here as fast as I could!!!

My family and I do love living in Baja Carolina (on the coast near Charleston), and have adapted to the slower pace as well as we could, so you might as well enjoy the company of these 'damn yankees', 'cause we ain't leaving!

[Xenalyte]

I (nor my pappy or grand pappy) may have been born here, but I got here as fast as I could!!!

What does this sentence mean? I took out the parenthetical phrase, just to see if I could figure it out grammatically, and I got "I may have been born here, but I got here as fast as I could."

But then, I'm just a Texas gal, and we're sorta slow on the uptake occasionally.

[Live and let live conservative]

Southerners (bless your hearts), please stop asking 'where you from?' when you meet people. It's rude and shouldn't really matter.

Asking someone where they are from isn't rude, it's conversation.

[PistolPaknMama]

please stop asking 'where you from?' when you meet people. It's rude and shouldn't really matter

Are you actually offended or put off by this? We don't just ask this of the imports but we ask each other too. Then eventually establish that our granddaddies might have been first cousins. That's just how we are.

Your post is a great example of exactly what we're talking about though...coming here and telling us what to do and what not to do. That's even more rude than making small talk.

[Pelham]

So... you can always move back home where you won't have to put up with those southern habits that annoy you.