Why are southerners so obsessed with being southern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marylanders are obsessed with being from Maryland.

It’s not a mystery. People are just proud of where they are from.

Not really. Few places have less of a sense of place than Maryland.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Due to heritage of the area.

Most of the aristrocratic English, Scots, Welsh settled there.
Is why tea, sweet 16's, big outdoor parties, horse races, brunch and sunday dinner, gowns and dresses, English style horsemanship, etc. are still huge there.

English Aristocrats didn’t immigrate to USA.
People who oppose them did.

That’s not true. English aristocrats and gentry did immigrate to the southern United States, particularly to colonies like Virginia and the Carolinas, to establish a hierarchical society based on plantation agriculture and a planter class. These immigrants were often second and subsequent sons from the lesser gentry, were motivated by economic opportunities and sought to recreate a social order similar to England's, distinct from the more egalitarian settlements in New England.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Due to heritage of the area.

Most of the aristrocratic English, Scots, Welsh settled there.
Is why tea, sweet 16's, big outdoor parties, horse races, brunch and sunday dinner, gowns and dresses, English style horsemanship, etc. are still huge there.

English Aristocrats didn’t immigrate to USA.
People who oppose them did.

That’s not true. English aristocrats and gentry did immigrate to the southern United States, particularly to colonies like Virginia and the Carolinas, to establish a hierarchical society based on plantation agriculture and a planter class. These immigrants were often second and subsequent sons from the lesser gentry, were motivated by economic opportunities and sought to recreate a social order similar to England's, distinct from the more egalitarian settlements in New England.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some think they are aristocrats. A family I knew from Charleston was like this. They seemed like they believed with all their hearts that they were just finer specimens of humanity.

Read Albion's Seed. Some colonists were landed gentry from England and that influenced the culture thereafter which was very different than New England.

Georgia was a penal colony, no?

This. Large well known families from England settled in the plantation areas. Their newfound larger properties became lush and posh.

Religious separatists settled in coves and hills in the New England areas, and city factory owners settled along the New England "fall line" to build factories and import Irish slaves and later regular immigrants.

The Irish were never enslaved. They were indentured servants.

Regardless of the correct terminology, they weren't treated as equals.

[Anonymous]

Why are Long Island people so proud of that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know of any other US region where people are so infatuated with their location, wallowing in it endlessly and holding it up as the best place to be from.

I don’t get it. You want Southerners to be proud of being Northerners? Westerners?

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Anonymous wrote:If the civil war was about slavery why did Lincoln wait two years to outlaw it?

Found the racist Southerner who’s still ticked about the War of Northern Agression LOL

Found the northerner who's in denial about slavery in New England and who was buying southern cotton for northern factories and wealthy factory owners.

Nice try but my family wasn’t even in the US until the 1920s. Not sure why you feel the need to protect the South so much with your whataboutism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are Long Island people so proud of that?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know of any other US region where people are so infatuated with their location, wallowing in it endlessly and holding it up as the best place to be from.

IYKYK

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know of any other US region where people are so infatuated with their location, wallowing in it endlessly and holding it up as the best place to be from.

I don’t get it. You want Southerners to be proud of being Northerners? Westerners?

Just calm TF down about the South. No one else cares.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because they are overcompensating for low self esteem. They have a chip on their shoulder about being southern.

They're compensating for being the butt of unending cultural jokes and the subject of condescension. I feel it still as a transplant, and wish that East Coasters realize how much they've contributed to this mess we're all through sheer arrogance.

That’s very interesting and maybe more where you are in the south. Not my experience at all as a recent transplant from NoVa to Eastern NC. It’s a rural area and has taken some time to adjust but is very welcoming if you leave your DC attitude back up north. Nobody cares!

[Anonymous]

Because the older you get and more you experience the more you appreciate and value being a southerner.

Southerners teach and expect better manners and etiquette. They value the art of conversation, dislike bragging and name dropping and care what others think about them. They know how to entertain, the men love women and women aren’t expected to be men.

I am grateful every day that I’m a southerner.

There are many instances where I encounter a very rude person and remind myself they don’t know any better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the older you get and more you experience the more you appreciate and value being a southerner.

Southerners teach and expect better manners and etiquette. They value the art of conversation, dislike bragging and name dropping and care what others think about them. They know how to entertain, the men love women and women aren’t expected to be men.

I am grateful every day that I’m a southerner.

There are many instances where I encounter a very rude person and remind myself they don’t know any better.

Example A of what OP was talking about. I’m half inclined to think that this is parody, but sadly I think not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the older you get and more you experience the more you appreciate and value being a southerner.

Southerners teach and expect better manners and etiquette. They value the art of conversation, dislike bragging and name dropping and care what others think about them. They know how to entertain, the men love women and women aren’t expected to be men.

I am grateful every day that I’m a southerner.

There are many instances where I encounter a very rude person and remind myself they don’t know any better.

Example A of what OP was talking about. I’m half inclined to think that this is parody, but sadly I think not.

What part do you not like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the older you get and more you experience the more you appreciate and value being a southerner.

Southerners teach and expect better manners and etiquette. They value the art of conversation, dislike bragging and name dropping and care what others think about them. They know how to entertain, the men love women and women aren’t expected to be men.

I am grateful every day that I’m a southerner.

There are many instances where I encounter a very rude person and remind myself they don’t know any better.

Example A of what OP was talking about. I’m half inclined to think that this is parody, but sadly I think not.

What part do you not like?

Well, let’s first start with the hypocrisy. Southerners “dislike bragging.” What was that entire post but a massive pat on the back at southern superiority?