Why is there so much hate for the south here?

[Anonymous]

I grew up partially in Florida and people in my neighborhood were openly racist, not even remotely shy about it. My parents ended up moving away.

My husband's rural Florida home town literally has a Trump shrine and just so, so much meth.

As a pregnant woman right now, I wouldn't even visit Florida because there's now a serious risk they'll let you die if something goes wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cuz they're all a bunch of racist, redneck dipshits.

+1

And a lot of it is hot & swampy. Yuck.

And Buffalo and Syracuse are frigid has-been cities, so there's that.

I’ll take either over those living in the swamp with a-holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of insults about the south being thrown around.

It might surprise you city slickers to know southerners would probably look down on you for your lack of spine and much-too-free spiritedness.

Why is there seemingly endless disorder in northern cities? Why are people so cold? Why on Sundays are our boys and girls in pews while yours are in dank basements and dark cars smoking, snorting, and engaging in God knows what?

Southerners have always been the underdogs, but we have principles. Don't come crying to us when your son is wearing a dress and your daughter says she needs to move back home for a decade because of her "mental health."

^^ this trash is exactly why people avoid the south

[Anonymous]

OP,

It’s not just the south. Posters on this site have plenty to say about “flyover country” as well.

I figure that a lot of it comes from a sense of superiority and/or ignorance. I have a relative who hates a particular region even though she’s never been there, nor has she ever met anyone from there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing it gets the racism and the the stain that can never be washed off from the Jim Crow era, but I don’t know.

Maybe it’s the bombing of all successful black neighborhoods, or turning them into lakes or using eminent domain to run the roads right through their communities.

There are many northern cities where Black people were and continue to be treated poorly. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and it was super segregated, much more than in the South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Cuz they're all a bunch of racist, redneck dipshits.

+1

And a lot of it is hot & swampy. Yuck.

And Buffalo and Syracuse are frigid has-been cities, so there's that.

I’ll take either over those living in the swamp with a-holes.

This---and many other comments in this thread---are absolutely vile. And if dismissing "those people" out of hand is not overt racism, or something very close to it, I don't know what is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cuz they're all a bunch of racist, redneck dipshits.

You are quite ignorant, but maybe that's what you need to believe to feel better about living in a declining part of the country.

It’s RED hot.

This.

But that's an electoral map, so it reflects the margins in every state. Most of the states that went for Trump had areas that supported Harris, and vice versa.

To me, it just promotes division to hate on an entire region. I've never lived in what most would consider the south (just NY, NJ, DC, MD, and NoVa), but I have relatives in areas that are indisputably the south. Some are MAGA, and just as many are true-blue progressives who walk the walk far more than most in the DC area.

There's enough intolerance floating around already. It's a shame that people stretch to be tribal about regions when they don't need to be.

I agree, but the difference to me is that the south has been run by politicians who pander to the worst of their people for generations. It impacts policy and culture.

[Anonymous]

the racism is part of the culture.

I don't want my kids to ever have that awful accent.

[Anonymous]

Well, Florida Man is always good for a rip roaring laugh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t hate it, my family is in the south. But I’m wise to it. The school segregation, the residential segregation, the racism, the ignorance.
Of course it’s not all like that, there are pockets here and there.
I couldn’t live there.
And the mosquitoes are horrible.

This sounds a lot like Montgomery County to be honest. Just because there are some Asians who've worked their way into the white schools/neighborhoods doesn't mean there's not a lot of segregation and racism.

Technically, it’s under the mason Dixon line, so it is the south.
And yes, you are right. It’s different in Montgomery county Pa, another city suburb - the north. It’s two different worlds.

[Anonymous]

Is this really a sincere question?

[Anonymous]

I have found people in the south to be as varied as people in the north.
However, northeners simply cloak their racism - or not as in the case of South Boston. The south side of Chicago certainly isnt' a haven of integration either.
I wouldn't circumscribe it as simply racism. It's wider net is tribalism. I have found southerners to be more inclusive of its local historical black population than the more recent immigration waves of the last 50 years. People all over just tend to be suspicious and unwelcoming of newcomers.

[Anonymous]

I am from New England and I think of the South as a place where Black and Jewish people were lynched. I also think of it as an intolerant place for LGBTQ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up partially in Florida and people in my neighborhood were openly racist, not even remotely shy about it. My parents ended up moving away.

My husband's rural Florida home town literally has a Trump shrine and just so, so much meth.

As a pregnant woman right now, I wouldn't even visit Florida because there's now a serious risk they'll let you die if something goes wrong.

Is Florida considered part of the South?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up partially in Florida and people in my neighborhood were openly racist, not even remotely shy about it. My parents ended up moving away.

My husband's rural Florida home town literally has a Trump shrine and just so, so much meth.

As a pregnant woman right now, I wouldn't even visit Florida because there's now a serious risk they'll let you die if something goes wrong.

Is Florida considered part of the South?

It is.