Why are southerners so obsessed with being southern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently listened to a podcast that discussed how Southern culture has taken over America. Someone made an interesting point - that rural America, no matter where, embraces Southern rural culture - confederate flags, trucks, racism, etc... So, it seems like people all over the US want to cosplay being Southern. Doesn't appeal to me, personally, but I think they have a point.

So Southern culture is inherently bad? Is that your point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently listened to a podcast that discussed how Southern culture has taken over America. Someone made an interesting point - that rural America, no matter where, embraces Southern rural culture - confederate flags, trucks, racism, etc... So, it seems like people all over the US want to cosplay being Southern. Doesn't appeal to me, personally, but I think they have a point.

That's quite a biased podcast to say that rural American culture is racist. I guess that podcast didn't mention segregation and racism in New England cities where people attend schools and buy homes in areas that are mostly, if not all, wealthy and white.

[Anonymous]

Washington DC was built on slave labor, but sure let's continue to pretend like we're better people than southerners. My children's campus was literally a slave-holding farm, but the history teacher said to me "oh I'll never set foot in Alabama." Ignorance pretending to be virtue.

[Anonymous]

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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.

You have not been in Maine then.

You can't get there from here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Washington DC was built on slave labor, but sure let's continue to pretend like we're better people than southerners. My children's campus was literally a slave-holding farm, but the history teacher said to me "oh I'll never set foot in Alabama." Ignorance pretending to be virtue.

Hello...DC is southern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently listened to a podcast that discussed how Southern culture has taken over America. Someone made an interesting point - that rural America, no matter where, embraces Southern rural culture - confederate flags, trucks, racism, etc... So, it seems like people all over the US want to cosplay being Southern. Doesn't appeal to me, personally, but I think they have a point.

That's quite a biased podcast to say that rural American culture is racist. I guess that podcast didn't mention segregation and racism in New England cities where people attend schools and buy homes in areas that are mostly, if not all, wealthy and white.

It is funny how it apparently didn't mention all those racially restrictive covenants and segregated schools that were so popular in northern states with their superior culture. Just skipped right over that part! I'll give this podcast a pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You have not been in Maine then.

You can't get there from here.

I read that in a Bert & I accent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently listened to a podcast that discussed how Southern culture has taken over America. Someone made an interesting point - that rural America, no matter where, embraces Southern rural culture - confederate flags, trucks, racism, etc... So, it seems like people all over the US want to cosplay being Southern. Doesn't appeal to me, personally, but I think they have a point.

Yes, southern Delaware is like that. I agree and don't know what appeals about the culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently listened to a podcast that discussed how Southern culture has taken over America. Someone made an interesting point - that rural America, no matter where, embraces Southern rural culture - confederate flags, trucks, racism, etc... So, it seems like people all over the US want to cosplay being Southern. Doesn't appeal to me, personally, but I think they have a point.

Yes, southern Delaware is like that. I agree and don't know what appeals about the culture.

Don't try to blame southerners and rural folks for the racism of Delaware's residents.

[Anonymous]

Just realized, as a midwesterner, my family is relatively new to America. All great grandparents born in Northern Europe. Farmers who moved west immediately upon arrival, after the civil war.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Washington DC was built on slave labor, but sure let's continue to pretend like we're better people than southerners. My children's campus was literally a slave-holding farm, but the history teacher said to me "oh I'll never set foot in Alabama." Ignorance pretending to be virtue.

Hello...DC is southern.

No one thinks that way, because geographically we aren't while culturally we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently listened to a podcast that discussed how Southern culture has taken over America. Someone made an interesting point - that rural America, no matter where, embraces Southern rural culture - confederate flags, trucks, racism, etc... So, it seems like people all over the US want to cosplay being Southern. Doesn't appeal to me, personally, but I think they have a point.

That's quite a biased podcast to say that rural American culture is racist. I guess that podcast didn't mention segregation and racism in New England cities where people attend schools and buy homes in areas that are mostly, if not all, wealthy and white.

Yes, because nobody wants to leave near and go to school with poor white trash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The War Of Northern Aggression, that's what they call The Civil War

Most Southerners don't call it this. Though the fact that any of them do is pretty gross. But I know plenty of people from the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana (including a bunch of black folks) and none of them call it the War of Norther Aggression. But then they aren't racist, so that's probably why.

I went to school in GA. My GA History Teacher told us that the South "really won" because they killed more people.

[Anonymous]

I don’t like the south but people from every region are equally into the local culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washington DC was built on slave labor, but sure let's continue to pretend like we're better people than southerners. My children's campus was literally a slave-holding farm, but the history teacher said to me "oh I'll never set foot in Alabama." Ignorance pretending to be virtue.

Hello...DC is southern.

No one thinks that way, because geographically we aren't while culturally we are.

I guess you’ve never heard the old phrase. DC: northern charm, southern efficiency.