[warchild9]

Hearing a Northeastern accent roils up a deep hostility within the breast of any Southern man. Southern women, too, but they're often too nice to let them know it. Midwesterners, Yankees as well, don't rouse that same sort of irrational hatred. I haven't figured that one out, yet.

[katnip]

Hearing a Northeastern accent roils up a deep hostility within the breast of any Southern man. Southern women, too

Maybe it's just you and your family that feel that way?

I'm a Northerner from NYC that spent 8 wonderful years living in the south. Most people there couldn't have been nicer and I made great friends .

Ps. I don't think they were just pretending to be nice.

[wardaddy]

You're right. I was in Minneapolis a few years ago for the first time and I remember thinking that folks there were just as friendly (maybe even more geuinely so) as my fellow Southerners but that they "talked funny"...lol

When I lived in Manhattan, it was a bit harder and I almost always had to overcome the "rube" aspect of my culture with them. Manhattan women though liked Southern men oddly. It always took me a while to get used to the stacatto verbspeak when chatting with NY Italians or Jews. My temperate zone brain simply doesn't motivate my mouth that sharply..lol

A lot of it really does go back to the origins of the original settlers....especially in the South where the native European bloodlines are fairly intact and still the majority of the culture.

[GOPcapitalist]

Midwesterners, Yankees as well, don't rouse that same sort of irrational hatred.

In a way, it is what the author of this article describes - not all northerners are yankees in the formal sense. What Wilson is arguing is that the term applies to a certain strain of persons from New England, not all northerners. This strain is generally of Puritan origin and background. They are characterized by obnoxious self righteousness, arrogance, a belief that they are better than the rest of us, a strong penchant for ordering other people around, and a tendency to look down upon those who get in their way. In short, a Hillary Clinton.