Why is there so much hate for the south here?

[Anonymous]

When I was living in Oxford MS in the late 80s - early 90s, there was a vote to remove the ban on interracial marriage from local law. Our secretary actually voted against it and then told me "I did not mean you and your husband" (white and asian) I guess she was thinking of black and white? She was paid less than $700/month, living in a trailer on her parents' property, and called herself the daughter of confederacy. She was actually one of the nicer ones. I met many students still talking about the land their families lost during the civil war. Completely insulated vapid place. And that is a university town. The surrounding areas were worse. Hope the flood of hispanic population changed the state, at least the university got rid of the rebel flag.

[Anonymous]

The '87 Constitutional Amendment? To remove language that hadn't been operative since August of 1970?

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Horrible schools?

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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?

No. It’s not the south.

[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.

There's long been endemic corruption stretching for generations among politicians in Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. That impacts culture and policy as well.

Honestly, the thread is really stupid. These aren't normal times and our democracy is being trashed by a New Yorker who, yes, looks to a lot of morons in the south and elsewhere for support. One might think it's more important to look for allies, wherever located, to start digging ourselves out of this giant hole, but perhaps it really is more important to pretend one's greatly superior for, I dunno, living in Silver Spring or Fort Washington rather than Cary or Marietta.

[Anonymous]

There are deeply racist pockets all over the place.

Cecil County, MD, which is about halfway between Baltimore and Philly, was well known as the home of the regional KKK for years. It was not easy to grow up liberal there (we moved across the line to DE when I was 13 and starting HS)

I drove through a town just outside of Pittsburgh a few years ago that had an openly racist sign about Obama and Biden right on the side of the main drag. I have never wanted to leave a place so quickly.

[Anonymous]

I haven't read any hate of the south here!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the racism is part of the culture.

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

I have to agree that the accent is grating

I used to laugh when the kids at a camp I attended in PA told me I had a southern accent. No, only to those with strong NY accents (which some of them did have) would I possibly sound Southern. My uncle and his kids in Alabama had southern accents - my mid-Atlantic accent is neutral by comparison. The weird quirk I never picked up from the area I grew up was putting r sounds into words that don’t have them, like pronouncing water “werter”.

My husband grew up in TX but you can only hear a little on certain words.

My extended family on my dad’s side are from Boston area. They have the exact accent that Ben, Matt and Jimmy Fallon demonstrated a couple weeks ago. I could close my eyes and hear my great aunts and uncles speaking during that segment.

[Anonymous]

The south uneducated just like MAGA likes it.

The south uneducated keeps voting for the same people to steal their hard earned monies, giving them no jobs, no education while the GOP enriches themselves and rapes their DD's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are deeply racist pockets all over the place.

Cecil County, MD, which is about halfway between Baltimore and Philly, was well known as the home of the regional KKK for years. It was not easy to grow up liberal there (we moved across the line to DE when I was 13 and starting HS)

I drove through a town just outside of Pittsburgh a few years ago that had an openly racist sign about Obama and Biden right on the side of the main drag. I have never wanted to leave a place so quickly.

That’s part of the problem. Southern culture has permeated rural areas all over the country. Lots of articles about this. Here’s one: https://outsidethebeltway.com/southernification-of-rural-america/

So now you got people in the middle of PA flying the confederate flag and talking with a southern twang.

[Anonymous]

Because the states are run by unhinged politicians that want to bring us back to the 1950’s when women had rights and minorities went to separate schools. The approval rate for interracial marriage in the South was not even above 50% until the year 2000. That is around 10 years later than the rest of the country. Women are now dying of sepsis in the south for nonviable pregnancies because of religious nutjobs that claim to be pro life.

[Anonymous]

Thinking that everyone in the south is a racist MAGA cult member is like other countries thinking everyone in the US is a racist MAGA cult member because Trump.

We're not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking that everyone in the south is a racist MAGA cult member is like other countries thinking everyone in the US is a racist MAGA cult member because Trump.

We're not.

The majority are.

Charleston, SC just voted in another republican YES Republicans are all racist in the South. Given the south is mostly red voters they are also MAGA anti American uneducated shits.

Every year the south stays red and we all know why. Education is in the toilet in southern states and has been for years and years. Why? Because the uneducated rule which is exactly what MAGA wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are deeply racist pockets all over the place.

Cecil County, MD, which is about halfway between Baltimore and Philly, was well known as the home of the regional KKK for years. It was not easy to grow up liberal there (we moved across the line to DE when I was 13 and starting HS)

I drove through a town just outside of Pittsburgh a few years ago that had an openly racist sign about Obama and Biden right on the side of the main drag. I have never wanted to leave a place so quickly.

Having pockets of racism is different than having pockets, whether there isn’t racism.

The north has pockets of racism like south Boston, or western Maryland… the south has pockets where there isn’t rightism like Huntsville, Alabama.

The difference is the government in areas with pockets of racism are fighting against racist policies, which is the definition of racism. In racist areas with pockets that are not racist. You have political figures who are putting racist policies in place that you have to live under.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking that everyone in the south is a racist MAGA cult member is like other countries thinking everyone in the US is a racist MAGA cult member because Trump.

We're not.

it’s not thinking that everyone is like that it’s just that the plurality of it is too much and the people who get elected are.