You may not realize it, but you come across as thinking you’re superior to northerners. It’s no better than the condescension exhibited by napscoordinator towards you southerners.
But we are more regionally chauvinistic down here and more socially conservative.
Whether that is superior is debatable.
I do not understand northern whites...why do so many lean socially liberal?...and busybodies..do gooders?
I lived amongst them. Beats me.
People lump the south as Naps did with the perennial bad stats but they lack the courage to explain why our stats are so bad...it's just how it is.
When folks make fun of white trash northerners, it's “southern” Hoosiers or southern or Appalachian Ohioans...occasionally one hears of the Pine Barrens folks in Jersey conveniently in southern Jersey..lol
We are reacting to Yankee condescension...one we have known and felt since toddlers. I grew up in Mississippi knowing very young that northerners looked down on us about race and basically everything else but our women. IF our reaction seems that way then my apologies.
You do realize this theme has been in play since the founding even before there was a midwest or deep south...then it was between New England versus Maryland south in the colonies
the most distinct difference tween us and ya’ll is personality and it's a paradox to be honest...myself notwithstanding...southerners are loathe to confrontation, warmer and more surface friendly and all that but if crossed will kill you quicker
I'm not sure these ways are gonna hold up frankly...the youth here are becoming more blended and some thuggish like black trash...the old ways are dying out quick in the mid South where I now live...we are half northern anyhow now...
in Mississippi where I come from...they are holding on
I could deal with Indiana if I had to and I actually like the panhandle of Nebraska
but at my age I am more at home with my own kind...my very first day here 11 years ago I saw folks here calling my southern ancestors Nazis and call for all slaveowners to have been hanged ..man, woman and child. ago to any southern thread and you will see it right now..
and on a conservative forum if we white southerners did not vote like WE do, we woulda all gone down the crapper 20 years ago...our fairly rigid bloc is the electoral punch that makes it happen...thank God for Texas...we lost VA and NC on the great black hope...and why the demographic shift in those two states? well...it gets back to precisely the same thing.
IF white northerners voted like we do, we would not even need this forum.