It's only "silly" because you can't deny it. You love New York and the northeast. You'll defend your region against slurs. All of us love the whole country, but we settle on one region as the part of it we love most. You're no exception.
No, I am NOT " defending " N.Y., nor any other state. I am saying that it does no good, for Southerners to bad mouth everyother place and its peoples. If these threads were solely for Souherners to talk about what it's like there, I would have no problem , whatsoever , with them. It is that these threads always start out with CONDEMNATION , name calling, and invectives against ALL others , that is so devisive, juvenie, and yes," silly ". No other threads, be they for and about people who have / do live in Chicago, Pa., N.J., Cal., New England, or any other place, have ever scapegoated / put down / condemned others . This is a fact . Go read those old threads for yourself, if you think that I am being disengenuous.
There was a New York thread, prior to 9 /11 /01, where people who didn't live there, posted that N.Y.C. should be blown off the map. No nonSoutherners come on these threads, and say such things . There have been Cal. threads, where others posted similarly nasty things. Again, no one comes onto " SOUTHERN " threads, and says the same. It is ONLY Southern FREEPERS, who continually post derrogatory things, about others.
If people are on FR, it is clear that THEY haven't voted for Hitlery, Davis, etc. ! This; however, never seems to ener the minds of those , who paint with a broad brush, and accuse entire areas, with which they usually have very little knowledge about, of invidious behaviors.
You explain to me, just what " GOOD " this incivility serves ; please.