# Is "Southern Culture" inherently racist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-southern-culture-inherently-racist/950125 "2021-09-05T03:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-southern-culture-inherently-racist/950125/15 "2021-09-05T15:52:32Z")
This seems rather familiar to a (relatively) recent thread - > [@About the South's glorious past](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-souths-glorious-past/914672): > > First off, as a many generational southerner, I do feel it is past time for Confederate monuments to come down. However, as a southerner, I do take umbrage with the near consistent speak that southern pride is based in racism. I believe the for the most part southern pride is the result of being looked down upon by the rest of the country. Southern/redneck jokes are common. Ironically, we have been posed to be inferior and you wonder why southerners take offense. Most here understand the w… For anyone wanting a quick read-through. My hot-take on the OP is that “Southern Culture” in and of itself isn’t racist. Because it’s (like a lot of things) too broad a term. Nawlin’s culture, built on French/Acadian cultural hybridization along with a large number of other factors, is different from what you might see in Florida, Mississippi, or Texas, although they’d all arguably be a part of ‘Southern Culture’. For that matter, many African-Americans in the South take deep pride in the way that their food culture is often the prominent one (even if they are angry that their role in creating it is often ignored). I will say (as is noted in the other thread and similar threads) that the term _Southern Pride_ is more problematic, in that the vast majority of people who use that term see it as an excuse to white-wash (in more ways than one!) the absolutely racist moments of the past to fit a glorious lost culture. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-southern-culture-inherently-racist/950125)._