It’s because the manners, religion and aesthetics are just a thin veneer over a brutally violent, corrupt power culture.

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 is mainly why I hate the south. Who cares what we’re wearing and whether we go to your church. Leave us alone.

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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

This.

And to explain for those who don’t get it , Maryland and Virginia are southern states.

And before you make excuses as to why they aren’t, history and reality both say you are wrong. Both states have plenty of people living outside the DC bubble who are ‘liberal ‘and both states have long histories of racism.

As a life long Virginian, VA is worse than ‘Deep South’ states and has committed the most racist atrocities backed by government that pulled off racism in a “genteel” manner , with a population who was happy to indulge them. Democrats ruled VA from after the civil war until 1970. Sure things here in the northern region have changed but there is still the rest of the state.

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."

Anonymous wrote:They’re all either racist or uncultured or poor. It’s hard out there.

Huh. My Harvard-educated BIPOC spouse from rural Deep South who was a Dem Presidential appointee and is now a C-suite exec would like a word.

Your brush is a touch too broad.

They’re all either racist or uncultured or poor. It’s hard out there.

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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.

Land doesn't vote. People do.

Its a trashy place

There’s just a lot of hate in general on this site.

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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.

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

+1

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

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Mid 40s guy here who grew up in NoVa and since moved to a different region of the country. Got into UVa/VT/GT for college. Went to my visit at GT and despite it being an amazing school, could never see myself living there. This was in the early 2000s and it's not much better now.

If a young naive 18 year old can see something isn't quite right, not sure why you can blame others pointing out some big issues.

I'm sure there are incredible people all over the south, but it definitely wasn't for me coming from NoVa.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

For one Red state are no longer cheaper.

Two their economies are held up by Blue states.

It is past time for Blue states to stop sending funds for red states.