[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.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

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.

Like I said a few posts earlier, I grew up the Upstate New York Snowbelt. As far as people from NYC and environs were concerned, I was a rube.

[warchild9]

That comment about Manhattan women is shockingly true. They're very forward about their attraction to Southern men, and will let you know it! How I could have scored if I wasn't courting the future Mrs. Warchild!