Is the future of higher ed in the South?

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

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UF - it's a very welcoming environment, but still allow different voices to be heard - all done peacefully.

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

They only do it here because it's anonymous and they can show their true feelings. If many of these people acted like this in real life outside of their bubble, they would be shunned.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not a vacation it's an education...remember your kid will be just like the people they surround themselves with everyday. So hang out with vapid people who decide to attend a school because of the weather not the quality of the education and you will get a self indulgent adult back. Have your kid attend a school where academics and scholarly achievement are celebrated more than the football team that graduates half their kids and you well get back a critical thinking adult. What's important to learn in college is critical thinking and social norms. Getting wasted everyday in the sun is not necessarily the goal after all it doesn't look good after 25!

You are ignorant of what goes on at these schools. Academics are also a priority. Just keep telling yourself whatever you want. There is a brain drain to southern schools for lots of different reasons. Fact.

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

They only do it here because it's anonymous and they can show their true feelings. If many of these people acted like this in real life outside of their bubble, they would be shunned.

I'm the southern factory example poster. My point was exactly that - if you strip away pre-conceived notions of how people are based on geography, you will find that most are fairly similar.

But here on DCUM, there are all sorts of presumptions about the South and southerners in general. (Like the poster above, saying that students are vapid bc they chose a school based on weather.)

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

They only do it here because it's anonymous and they can show their true feelings. If many of these people acted like this in real life outside of their bubble, they would be shunned.

I'm the southern factory example poster. My point was exactly that - if you strip away pre-conceived notions of how people are based on geography, you will find that most are fairly similar.

But here on DCUM, there are all sorts of presumptions about the South and southerners in general. (Like the poster above, saying that students are vapid bc they chose a school based on weather.)

Agree... The irony is they are exactly like what they purport to despise. The false sense of moral and intellectual superiority is narcissistic. They seem to be very dim and possess views that are complete codswallop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

Except PP listed people that work a type of job. You agreed that people that work the same job all over the country likely act similar to one another.

So, the person that works the same job in the North is also not part of the "northern rat race".

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Anonymous wrote:As a Jew, my kid will be primarily looking at Southern schools. The anti-semitism just isn't baked in, like in CA and Northeast schools. Why put up with that for 4 years?

The only reason anti semitism isn’t “baked in” in the south though is because there aren’t nearly as many Jewish people in the south, not because southerners aren’t as anti semitic.

Ha ha. Nope. Lots of Jews in the South, especially in cities. But the teaching at the Southern schools isn't as centered on decolonialist antifa psychosis as it is in the NE, CA. I'm an academic and I am very aware of where they are inculcating Franz Fanon & the like. Anti-semites are everywhere, but the academy is far more rational in the South.

Other than south florida, where are these mythical southern Jewish people living? I grew up in a major city in the Deep South and had extended family I visited regularly in 2 other major southern cities. I didn’t meet a single Jewish person until I went to college in Chicago.

Florida, Atlanta, Austin,

Houston, Dallas, Miami, NOLA. I went to school with lots of Jewish kids in Houston.

Besides Miami all of those cities you listed have only 1-2% of the population that is Jewish.

And what's wrong with that? Isn't that on par with the total percent of population of the US?

Plus, you're fudging the numbers. See - https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/largest-jewish-populated-metropolitan-areas-united-states

Largest Jewish metro areas are NYC, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, DC, Philly, ATL, Miami, PHX.

No, I wasn’t fudging numbers. I got my numbers from Wikipedia. And my point is just that the south is not home to nearly as many Jewish people as the north. And that it’s absurd for people to view the south as more welcoming to Jewish people than the north simply because there haven’t been recent incidences of antisemitism in the south. My further point is that it’s unlikely to find as much antisemitism in a place like the south where not nearly as many Jewish people as it is in the north, where many more Jewish people live now and many more have historically lived.

Well, not entirely historically. The first two Jewish Senators (*) left the US Government in 1861 because they joined the Confederacy; one became the Secretary of the Navy, the other Secretary of War, and then Secretary of State. This is partially why Tulane ("Jewlane") is 44% Jewish.

(*) David Levy Yulee started Jewish but converted to Christianity; Judah P. Benjamin was Jewish throughout his life.

OMG. 2 Jewish senators joined the Confederacy! So therefore it is historically inaccurate that more Jewish people live in the North than the South. Because of 2 people. Do you hear yourself? Tulane is not Jewish because of 2 senators either. Tulane has a large Jewish population now because it was the first southern university to admit Jews.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not a vacation it's an education...remember your kid will be just like the people they surround themselves with everyday. So hang out with vapid people who decide to attend a school because of the weather not the quality of the education and you will get a self indulgent adult back. Have your kid attend a school where academics and scholarly achievement are celebrated more than the football team that graduates half their kids and you well get back a critical thinking adult. What's important to learn in college is critical thinking and social norms. Getting wasted everyday in the sun is not necessarily the goal after all it doesn't look good after 25!

You are ignorant of what goes on at these schools. Academics are also a priority. Just keep telling yourself whatever you want. There is a brain drain to southern schools for lots of different reasons. Fact.

How is it a Fact? Unless colleges in the North are closing down or not able to fill their classes...or colleges in the South are doubling in student population to absorb new demand...how is there any brain drain anywhere?

Clemson had 18,045 undergrads in 2015 and has 22,566 today
Pitt had 17,694 undergrads in 2015 and has 19,928 today
Penn State University Park had 31,452 undergrads in 2017 and has 46,000 today
UF had 33,720 undergrads in 2015 and has 35,000 today

They may get more applications, but the actual students continue to follow the same general patterns.

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

DP. I strongly agree with the bolded, but I'm not sure why you think this is a solely DCUM thing. I'm a Southerner who moved North and the assumptions people back home make about me, my life, and my morals because of where I live are every bit as strong as assumptions about the South on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

DP. I strongly agree with the bolded, but I'm not sure why you think this is a solely DCUM thing. I'm a Southerner who moved North and the assumptions people back home make about me, my life, and my morals because of where I live are every bit as strong as assumptions about the South on DCUM.

To deny it is much more pronounced going North to South is sticking one's head in the sand. Much of the negativity displayed by Southerner's is a direct result of the constant barrage of insults and stereotyping seen on this site and exhibited by the mainstream media and politicians. Honestly people in the North spend much more time complaining about the deplorables in the South then Southerner's do. If people you know look at you that way, you most likely exude a persona of superiority and elitism and deserve it. They make movies about this sort of thing for a reason.

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

DP. I strongly agree with the bolded, but I'm not sure why you think this is a solely DCUM thing. I'm a Southerner who moved North and the assumptions people back home make about me, my life, and my morals because of where I live are every bit as strong as assumptions about the South on DCUM.

To deny it is much more pronounced going North to South is sticking one's head in the sand. Much of the negativity displayed by Southerner's is a direct result of the constant barrage of insults and stereotyping seen on this site and exhibited by the mainstream media and politicians. Honestly people in the North spend much more time complaining about the deplorables in the South then Southerner's do. If people you know look at you that way, you most likely exude a persona of superiority and elitism and deserve it. They make movies about this sort of thing for a reason.

I have a lifetime of experience living both North and South to draw on and I disagree. Beyond that, I don't see much point in debating the finger points of negativity with someone who decided to jump to personal insults the moment someone disagreed with them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Why would this be? People in the NE have been moving south in droves for years.

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Anonymous wrote:The South is now the destination of choice for many college bound kids. Will this trend continue?

https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools

It could be, but those same kids won't live there. Go to their cheap colleges, and then return north for the high paying jobs and non-insane people. That's what I did. NYer who went south for College - UF. Then left and went North for my MBA - UPenn. Now in the Mid-Atlantic but itching to get back up north. Marriage and what not trapped me here. My two oldest are at Harvard but my youngest is looking south. She won't stay. It's not in our blood.

Your intolerance of other's views and false sense of moral superiority are blinding... your spawn are most likely the same. You seem pathetic.

+1. I work for a manufacturing company and have facilities in the deep south. The operators there are great workers who also like to enjoy life. They are all nice people who are welcoming to all (even, a northern Jewish woman like myself!) and just want to go home after work and spend time on their hobbies, and with families and friends. Honestly, their lives seem so much less stressful than the northern rat race.

Do you really think a northern or Michigan factory worker acts any differently? Do you also think someone working for an investment bank in Atlanta has a different life from a NYC investment banker?

Your example is kind of strange.

The example isn't strange, rather it is provided as a personal experience the poster had. There is no statement being made that northern or Michigan factory workers would act any differently. I would venture most people, whether in the north, south, mid-west, or anywhere else, do their jobs and then spend their time after work on hobbies with family and friends. It is only here on DCUM that an entire segment of the population is denigrated, considered gross, or worse, simply because they live in a different state. There are pros and cons to living in each area of the US or beyond.

DP. I strongly agree with the bolded, but I'm not sure why you think this is a solely DCUM thing. I'm a Southerner who moved North and the assumptions people back home make about me, my life, and my morals because of where I live are every bit as strong as assumptions about the South on DCUM.

To deny it is much more pronounced going North to South is sticking one's head in the sand. Much of the negativity displayed by Southerner's is a direct result of the constant barrage of insults and stereotyping seen on this site and exhibited by the mainstream media and politicians. Honestly people in the North spend much more time complaining about the deplorables in the South then Southerner's do. If people you know look at you that way, you most likely exude a persona of superiority and elitism and deserve it. They make movies about this sort of thing for a reason.

I have a lifetime of experience living both North and South to draw on and I disagree. Beyond that, I don't see much point in debating the finger points of negativity with someone who decided to jump to personal insults the moment someone disagreed with them.

Fragile and soft.