Why does SC have a more "genteel" image than other Southern states?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Greenville is a little bit of full of themselves.

+1 transplant snobs 😉

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People tend to associate SC more with Southern gentlemen and belles, and less with pickup trucks and NASCAR. Why?

Only South Carolinians believe this crap. The rest of us know the entire South is teeming with racist poseurs.

This! Southerners with family (Daddy!) money = former slave owners

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People tend to associate SC more with Southern gentlemen and belles, and less with pickup trucks and NASCAR. Why?

The City of Charleston.

+1 Charleston is like a dignified lady sipping tea by the Atlantic.

[Anonymous]

Charleston is NOT all that. I went to the Charleston Home and Garden Tour. Barf. It was nice but not that nice and I travel all over. So pretentious for what it was.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People tend to associate SC more with Southern gentlemen and belles, and less with pickup trucks and NASCAR. Why?

Only South Carolinians believe this crap. The rest of us know the entire South is teeming with racist poseurs.

This! Southerners with family (Daddy!) money = former slave owners

What does the fact that 150 years ago their ancestors owned slaves have anything to do with them? They didn’t own slaves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia > South Carolina > ROS

North Carolina is the superior southern state by a MILE

This is so funny. I’m from Georgia and something about North Carolina has always been “off” to me. I just don’t like it. It is not superior to south Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Louisiana in any way.

[Anonymous]

SC is the poor, dirty, country cousin to NC.

Yes, Charleston is nice, but its the gleaming ornament attached to an unbathed hillbilly. As soon as you cross over into SC everything is worse. Whether its off 95 or 77 or any other road, the drop in quality of every single thing around you is apparent.

Greenville is cute and surrounded by the ugliest stretch of suburban hell known to man between Spartanburg and there.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone think that?? Maybe I'm biased since I'm a native North Carolinian.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s because SC has Charleston and popular upscale beach/golf enclaves that attract northerners…who find it acceptable.

Let’s face it: lots of northerners with liberal values or money vacation in SC. These same people wouldn’t set foot in most other red states in the south…or send their kids to college there.

NC is an exception when it comes to good colleges and decent (albeit cheaper) beaches.

A smattering of other colleges in red states have grown in popularity and have become somewhat acceptable, but not enough to change the opinion of the entire state.

Trust me, if Alabama or Arkansas had a Charleston-equivalent a stone’s throw from fancy hotels, spas, and golf, then things might change. But those states simply aren’t a draw for affluent vacationers.

[Anonymous]

South Carolina is a relatively small state. The beach makes up a lot of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People tend to associate SC more with Southern gentlemen and belles, and less with pickup trucks and NASCAR. Why?

Only South Carolinians believe this crap. The rest of us know the entire South is teeming with racist poseurs.

This! Southerners with family (Daddy!) money = former slave owners

The vast, vast majority of wealth in the south was eliminated by the end of the war, and the south was basically a third world, subsistence economy until WWII. So, no, there aren't a bunch of families living on slave wealth.

[Anonymous]

Just stop. Go travel the south. Don’t sit there and make weird statements.

You perceive it has a more genteel reputation. How nebulous. Stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charleston is NOT all that. I went to the Charleston Home and Garden Tour. Barf. It was nice but not that nice and I travel all over. So pretentious for what it was.

I went there too and i was so bad. The best part of the trip was our Uber driver mad that the homeless with cash app signs pushed the local homeless to under the bridge.

The food was fine, you can get all that food everywhere. So they are on a river. BFD.

I could see it being a fun college town but living there full time, nah.

[Anonymous]

I’ve lived in the south almost my whole life

Perceptions of an entire state are not.. they’re not.. whole. It’s an entire state.

Having visited beaches, Greenville (my child is traveling there now), and being in a neighboring state.. SC is small. It’s sort of undeveloped and like an armpit if you compare it to NC’s development and to Georgia’s beauty and cultural impact.

If you can’t travel the south, see content by Matt Mitchell. He does funny videos that explain southern states and culture.

Genteel?? You can get that in any southern state. It’s called a handful of people who have a lot of money and marry someone who has a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People tend to associate SC more with Southern gentlemen and belles, and less with pickup trucks and NASCAR. Why?

Only South Carolinians believe this crap. The rest of us know the entire South is teeming with racist poseurs.

This! Southerners with family (Daddy!) money = former slave owners

The vast, vast majority of wealth in the south was eliminated by the end of the war, and the south was basically a third world, subsistence economy until WWII. So, no, there aren't a bunch of families living on slave wealth.

This is true the vast majority of wealth is through corruption and Jim Crow laws.