Anonymous wrote:Spend any amount of time on here and there are so many nasty comments made about the south that I just don't understand. And while I've never lived in the south I have spent quite a bit of time in GA, SC, NC and FL. and have found people to be nice and welcoming. Nicer than here for sure. So I don't get the near constant comments on different threads about it. Seems to me in fact a lot of people head south to retire for an slower pace life and for warm weather. What gives?

I'm sorry what do you not understand about red states right now?

What do you not understand about Gov Abbott and Paxton in Texas or DeSantis in Florida and the horrifying laws they are changing.

Same in Tennessee, Alabama, MO, Mississippi,

You want women to lose all their rights.
Religion taught in public school which religion might that be CHURCH OF SATAN??? It ain't gonna be Catholic!

What do you not understand about how red states are ok with girls being raped by old white christian men????? Not like Epstein files did not drop today.....

The cost of living in these states is climbing like crazy their economies are tanking no jobs etc. and you are asking this ?

How stupid are you?

A lot of it is political, both regarding historical politics and the present day. A little of it is classism, because the South is cheaper. However I doubt many of these South-haters would turn down an amazing job opportunity in Atlanta. And I’m not sure rural Georgia is any worse than say rural Pennsylvania.

I refuse to live in states with laws hostile to women’s reproductive rights or hostile to LGBTQ+ individuals.

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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.

I don't get the people saying the south is racist. Most African Americans in the us, well the majority of them live in the south. They would not continue to live somewhere they felt treated badly. It just doesn't make sense. How is the south racist?

Oh, hon

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.

DCUMs fancy themselves to be intellectual urban sophisticates and like to tell themselves that rural southern geographies are only hospitable for uneducated MAGA hillbillies.

Anonymous wrote:Spend any amount of time on here and there are so many nasty comments made about the south that I just don't understand. And while I've never lived in the south I have spent quite a bit of time in GA, SC, NC and FL. and have found people to be nice and welcoming. Nicer than here for sure. So I don't get the near constant comments on different threads about it. Seems to me in fact a lot of people head south to retire for an slower pace life and for warm weather. What gives?

That’s funny because this IS the south

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.

I don't get the people saying the south is racist. Most African Americans in the us, well the majority of them live in the south. They would not continue to live somewhere they felt treated badly. It just doesn't make sense. How is the south racist?

Moral superiority.

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.

True.

This DC area is very racist and classist.

Of course we can’t even define what “.the south” is, so makes it hard to answer.

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.

Anonymous wrote:For me, it's mostly that these places are way too warm.

Last time I went to the south, it was so hot and humid I couldn’t even touch the steering wheel in my car. I couldn’t walk through a large parking lot to a store without getting sweaty. I couldn’t even go on a walk or play tennis for 30 minutes.

I get how people snowbird in the south, but I don’t get how people do it all year long.

I never saw overt racism until I lived in the south. Not that covert racism isn’t as insidious, but it was really wild. It’s also hot as hell. And there are less communities that care about proper city planning. There’s way less diversity than the mid atlantic or NE.

My spouse and I both grew up in Florida and we both never, ever want to go back.