Missippy ping
I was born and raised in Houston - still have a little accent. It is amazing to me that some people seem to associate stupidity with an accent :-)
The people who condescend to the Southerners al ALL Damn Yankee Liberals!...........
Is this for real? Get over it.
Where I come from they still talk about the dutchmen saying: "Throw the cow over the fence some hay." I just laugh at them because I know they can't do it.
Wha... Wha... What? There is no greater advantage a man can have than being born and spending his life in the South. Disadvantage? It must be a typo.
... it seemed to conjure up that redneck image one might associate with the humor of Jeff Foxworthy and other Southern comedians. That image is of a culture of ignorant hillbillies (certainly due to inbreeding!), barefoot, living in a shack with no indoor plumbing (but certainly an outhouse in back), having a dog living under the front porch, and owning an overgrown lawn populated with broken-down, dilapidated automobiles. And, yes, we all chew tobacco and sit on the front porch swing playing the banjo. Everyone also flies a Confederate flag and reminisces about the War Between the States.
Don't that just sound like paradise? Although I can only assume that by "War Between the States" the author is referring to the War of Northern Aggression.
Here in Fla., everyone's from the North anyway.
Resident of Oak Ridge, Tennessee Bump!
AMERICAN BY BIRTH. SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD!
Everything that comes out of Hollywood and New York equates a southern accent with ignorance. That's why the mere presence of Bush in the Oval Office drives so many of those people crazy. ;)
uh...is that 'spose to be a 'bad thing'?
I can certainly relate to this article. Our son attended Deerfield Academy in the early seventies and the attitude was alive and well then. Almost every time we meet (d#@% Yankees) in our travels, they tend to condescend and are totally surprised at our knowledge of history, culture, etc.--"so impressed, my dear, with your world knowledge!"
Incidentally, I attached the d#@% to Yankee because a teacher of mine in HS (Texas) said it was a part of the word Yankee, not because of any cultural bias.
I just tell them, yes, we have three bedrooms and a path, and running water when we run all the way to the well and back. Also learned to read in remedial college English before earning my BA and MS.
vaudine
Typical ignorance and arrogance. I've experienced the same - when my employer sold her business to a large corporation in New York. The condescension of the New Yorkers toward us Southerners was so obvious. In time we've come to realize that those folks up north aren't very smart.
Don't worry your little mind,honey. The President of the United States has done pretty well for himself after being transplanted to Texas which is a close enough neighbor to the South to have him "misunderestimated" regarding his mental acuity, and he continues leaving his opponents in a state of confused defeat at the end of the day. You must learn to be gracious, like your mama said, and allow them to believe that they know more than we do, bless their hearts.
I have deep rural Southern roots. Even though I have been gone from the South for a number of years I still retain my Southern twang. As soon as I start speaking around a group of Yankees I see the smirks of superiority. They are sure they are in the presence of an ignorant, gun-toting, knuckle-dragging hillbilly. They soon learn that I have more education than two of them put together. I speak three languages besides English, and my research has been cited in a scholarly work by a distinguished historian.
Let the Yankees be smug and act superior if it makes them feel better. By the way, the current occupant of the White House has a Texas accent, not a Boston Brahmin accent.
Unfortunately, the only exposure most of those Northerners had had to Southerners came from the carriactures of the Beverly Hillbillies and the Dukes of Hazard.
It took a few weeks of watching Johnny Carson to perfect a midwestern neutral accent, but it was worth it to not have to fight the uphill battle for credibility from the onset.
There is little doubt about my roots, however, when I'm mad...
I'll never forget when I moved up to Cincinnati and told coworkers that I was from Alabama. I can't begin to count the number of times that I was asked if we still used outhouses!
dixieping