Agreed.
“As a “son of the south” I have to ask WTF????? While I appreciate the sentiments who really cares what Yankees think of us? I sure don’t. ...”
Indeed. We are who we are and what we are. The critics fall into the category of “the sum of zeros”.
BTW, I am not going to knock ‘Yankees’ per se, as a very great many of them are splendid people, but I cheerfully and utterly reject their culture, which itself is no monolith.
Deo Vindice
Agreed.
Since you're doing your best to be open minded, how about this? As a country mouse you reject the culture of city mouse. Isn't that more appropriate than to say there's a "yankee" culture you reject? Heck, have you visited down town Atlanta lately. I'd hardly call that Southern or Northern culture and I'd expect you'd be more at home in some of the very rural parts of the North than some of the urban areas of today's South. I've lived in both the North and the South... give me that country living any day.
What, exactly, is "yankee" culture?
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict you'll say something along the lines of socialism/gay rights/big government/etc.
Ok I won’t knock “northerners” except The Yankees(baseball team).... can I at least reject their cooking... I mean really.... boiling or baking everything with little or no spices? bland and blah... yuck!