I get sick of hearing from the neo rebs how dangerous those "Yankee" cities are when they are sitting in places with twice the crime rate of even New York City. I have travled around the country, and it is a fact that it's far easier to get yourself in a bad way outside the NE than inside it. Don't ask me why, although I do have my suspicions.
Black crime is a problem here and in the North.
We have more blacks and they commit more crime disproportionately...hence our poor stats.
That is simply a fact and is precisely why towns such as Memphis, Birmingham, Jackson MS, Little Rock, Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans etc have crimes rates as bad or worse than Detroit or Cleveland or Wash DC
I don't think that is a good stick to beat on the South with but use if you like.
Btw....please name the Neo Rebs here....ya'll always say that.
Tell me who of my regional compadres is calling for rebellion or secession.
Meanwhile, some here bash the South with a vitriol that would never be tolerated by the AMs here if the targets were not White southerners. Damn shame but they do give self explanatory reason for why many of us resent some Yankees. I realize there are plenty of decent non South hating Yankees having lived there 8 years part time.
Yankee sanctimony was pivotal in my move from left to right in my early 20s in Manhattan. I owe ya'll for that thanks.
PS: You are not really anywhere near the worst of the nasty folk here and I prefer to be civil with you but there are a few here who can chupa mi la mondan.
Now...for my fav Yankee environs for posterity:
Minnesota and Wisconsin....just a friendly as Southerners
but talk funny
The Thumb
Maine and New Hampshire
Way upstate NYC
Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge....fuggedaboutit
Columbus....babes
Pike County Illinois.....whitetail mecca
Rural PA....bucolic
lower midwest....not much different than KY
that's enuff for now
I've always been more worried for my safety on a lonely stretch of highway in New Mexico than in "bad neighborhoods" like Harlem or certain parts of DC.