Why are southerners so obsessed with being southern?

[Anonymous]

Not sure but I grew up in the south to northern parents and it always made me laugh when southerners would be like "We teach our children manners and monogramming!" like that's not something the wealthy do everywhere in the US

[Anonymous]

Wait until you meet a Boston Brahmin, OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure but I grew up in the south to northern parents and it always made me laugh when southerners would be like "We teach our children manners and monogramming!" like that's not something the wealthy do everywhere in the US

Had to look that one up. Neat.

[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.

Ahhh...so how do you explain New Englanders, Californians, New Yorkers, etc being obsessed with their cultures, schools, architecture, deb balls, aristocracy, country clubs, wealth, etc?

Those are ego based. Wealthy people are frequently pompous dbags. Southerners of all economic and racial backgrounds have a unique inferiority complex.

Real life southerner transplants in the north feel very self conscious of their accent/appearance/culture. They were taught from a young age that everyone (especially northerners) look down on them so they overcompensate with pride. Just ask some southern transplants and they will tell you themselves.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait until you meet a Boston Brahmin, OP!

+1 and ask how they feel about Catholics, Irish, and Italians.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Californians are like that.

[Anonymous]

There is nothing wrong with hometown pride. Nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Ahhh...so how do you explain New Englanders, Californians, New Yorkers, etc being obsessed with their cultures, schools, architecture, deb balls, aristocracy, country clubs, wealth, etc?

Those are ego based. Wealthy people are frequently pompous dbags. Southerners of all economic and racial backgrounds have a unique inferiority complex.

Real life southerner transplants in the north feel very self conscious of their accent/appearance/culture. They were taught from a young age that everyone (especially northerners) look down on them so they overcompensate with pride. Just ask some southern transplants and they will tell you themselves.

I'm as southern as can be, and I have never known anyone fitting your description. I think you're the one with an inferiority complex, with a need to look down on others who are not like you.

[Anonymous]

Tell me you've never met someone from Boston/NYC/Chicago without telling me you've never met....

[Anonymous]

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?

I think I did read that, ages ago.
But if you are landed gentry *with money* you stay at home in the Olde Country in your pile and with your money. There's something impoverished about these "aristocrats" that had them seeking their fortunes in the Americas. I guess they still had to keep up appearances, though!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure but I grew up in the south to northern parents and it always made me laugh when southerners would be like "We teach our children manners and monogramming!" like that's not something the wealthy do everywhere in the US

Wealthy northerners don't share what they do with pride?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell me you've never met someone from Boston/NYC/Chicago without telling me you've never met....

+1 yep!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Ahhh...so how do you explain New Englanders, Californians, New Yorkers, etc being obsessed with their cultures, schools, architecture, deb balls, aristocracy, country clubs, wealth, etc?

Those are ego based. Wealthy people are frequently pompous dbags. Southerners of all economic and racial backgrounds have a unique inferiority complex.

Real life southerner transplants in the north feel very self conscious of their accent/appearance/culture. They were taught from a young age that everyone (especially northerners) look down on them so they overcompensate with pride. Just ask some southern transplants and they will tell you themselves.

I'm as southern as can be, and I have never known anyone fitting your description. I think you're the one with an inferiority complex, with a need to look down on others who are not like you.

+1. I was taught some crazy things about Yankees as a kid, but when I moved north I realized they weren't true. I'm not self conscious of anything southern about me and neither are the other Southerners I know.