Southern Values

Weird assumptions

 

You really fail big time on your idealistic opinion. You honestly don't think that flying Confederate flags is respectful? Or the deeply embellished racist mindset that is generational in the South? Manners...yes they exist. Everywhere in the USA! Respect exists everywhere in the world. My family is a Maldives/USA mix and you would cringe when you see southerners stare at them in restaurants etc only to hear the most articulated manners one could ever hear from all of us!
your opinion is so wrong on all counts.

 

You've done little more than post rudeness and overt insults in this thread. It's disgusting. And claim it a matter of "defensive reaction" . . .

 

Championship - thank you

 

Observations, not "assumptions".

You may have observed otherwise.

But you post from the arrowhead in Minnesota, IIRC--Duluth perhaps?--and I specifically pointed out that if you factor in for urban vs rural, north v south goes out the window--which you conveniently carved out.

 

To the extent ive been defensive, it has been of my posts agsinst so much pearl clutching and unfounded *assumptions* about my posts in this thread, and such valiant defense for poor wittle keyboard cowboy, with zero recognition that said kb cowboy is quite reckless with his pot shots.

 

Seems like there are a lot of those people in the South, right?

 

I'm at least as Southern as you are, sorry I don't subscribe completely to the mythology

 

This is how I feel. I too, have lived in the North and the South and while culturally there are differences in regards of how people address each other (i.e. saying sir, ma'am, etc...), there are fine, genuine, people everywhere.

NYers have a bad reputation for being rude (mainly from tourists who they see on the street) when in fact people are rushing around and dealing with the grind of commuting around the city. The traffic, crowded trains, etc, will get anyone agitated.

That said, most people aren't like that 24/7. Much the opposite. The dozens of families that I became close with are good people, and good neighbors. In my building, we all helped each other whenever we needed help. It was very neighborly and friendly. In fact, I couldn't walk down the street without seeing 5 people I knew and stopping to have friendly catch-up conversations. Mind you this was in Brooklyn, not Manhattan - it's a very different vibe there. But from my 20+ years of living in that neighborhood, I interacted with good people with good values, who are raising their kids to be kind, respectful, tolerant people who are told to always say 'please', 'thank you' and not interrupt.

Up North, my friends kids would address me by my first name. Down here, my friends kids address me as "Mr. first name". Does that make the South respectful, and the North disrespectful? Please.

Btw, I've befriended some very fine people down here in Florida, too. And no doubt, there is something to be said about Southern hospitality. But there is a ton of Northern hospitality, too. If you've ever lived there, you'd know it. But you haven't, so carry on with your ill-informed generalizations and your ongoing attempts to disparage 'libbies' to make yourself feel good. Smh with this absurd, divisive post.

 

I liked when you did the gifs better, the hashtags are pretty low effort

 

You fail miserably in your generalizations about people from the “south”

 

Thanks, I think? What part of it did you find funny - just out of curiosity?

 

When did the meaning of “bless your heart” or “bless his/her heart” switch from positive to negative? I remember as a kid people, mostly older women, saying that and mean it with sincere sympathy for the object of the expression. So how did it come to switch into a sarcastic mocking?