# Who counts as a "Southerner"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-counts-as-a-southerner/667540 "2013-08-29T23:04:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 82
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-counts-as-a-southerner/667540/82 "2013-09-01T18:09:43Z")
Indeed, states are not 100% homogenous and uniform in their populations and culture. Any state, with hundreds of thousands or millions of residents, is going to have at least a few people of nearly every type. Frankly, though, that is a banal and irrelevant observation. The fact still remains that some states have a history in modern times and living memory of pushing toward progress and others have a track record of resisting it. The vast majority of white Mississippians seem hellbent on fighting tooth and nail against modernity; but then they whine that they are being “stereotyped” when anyone else points this out. Can’t have it both ways, guys. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-counts-as-a-southerner/667540)._