# Why don't people like the south? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010 "2017-11-18T18:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/81 "2017-11-19T13:18:18Z")
> [@contradancer](#): > > I lived in Tennessee and W. VA for a number of months A number of months, huh? Well by god, doesn’t that ever make you an expert on the entire region! Thanks for your super-informed and not at all bigoted and stereotyping post; we’re all smarter for having read your wisdom, and sad as a pig in shit that you had to leave us. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/82 "2017-11-19T13:34:17Z")
Reading this thread has made me seriously miss Huddle (now Waffle) House, Hashbrowns Scattered All The Way and Grits. Jekyll Island, KELLER’S FLEA MARKET! (if you ever go to Georgia, go to Savannah and go see Keller’s Flea Market, even if you don’t want to shop) Damn You Castleton! 😉 I had just gotten over missing living in Joe-ja and you had to go and start this thread As has been said, it’s a different way of living, talk slow, drink tea and drive like the devil is chasing you. If you want snow in your southern experience, you can go to Atlanta, that seems to be where the snow line is (was?) Anyone who thinks the south (okay, just Georgia, specifically Savannah where I lived) is how the south is typically portrayed anywhere has obviously never spent much time there or gained any understanding of the people. Lawdy I do miss Savannah. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/83 "2017-11-19T14:14:11Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > The main reason I wouldn’t live in the South is the weather. Western NC, northwest AR, a few other spots maybe in VA are the only places I would tolerate. What do you like about NW Arkansas? Fayetteville? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/84 "2017-11-19T14:35:07Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > That Denver has moved from hard-right like Phoenix to semi-Progressive is one of the mostly-untold stories of demographic/political shifts in the country. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around it not being full of drawling cowboys bitching about the hated Bureau of Land Management. The rest of Colorado OTOH … > > Thank you for a balanced and sensible post. It is easy to forget the good. Don’t forget Summit (Breckenridge), Boulder (well, Boulder) and Pitkin (Aspen, yeah I know) counties in Colorado. I’ll leave Colorado Springs off that list. Probably the most progressive city in the country is also the furthest south. Key West. IMHO of course. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/85 "2017-11-19T14:51:57Z")
> [@CastletonSnob](#): > > You don’t hear southerners talking about how much they dislike northerners. Aw, man! I was eating breakfast! Now it’s all over my screen! A lot of people hate the South because they believe what popular culture tells them. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/86 "2017-11-19T15:03:56Z")
Back to that bug thing: We ain’t got nothin’ like this out west [palmetto bug - Bing images](https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=palmetto+bug&FORM=HDRSC2) Nor do we have giant, flying, hissing roaches that attack! I’ll take a rattlesnake any day over that shit! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/87 "2017-11-19T18:22:45Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > When I’m old, I’m going to do the opposite of the whole, “fly south during the winter” and go somewhere cold during the summer. We have a T-shirt here in Arizona: _When I retire I’m gonna spend my summers up in Canada driving really slow._ ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/88 "2017-11-19T19:18:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Would you care to post the recipe? I still haven’t mastered fried chicken. FWIW, I have a [10-inch cast-iron chicken fryer](https://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Covered-Chicken-Pre-Seasoned-3-Quart/dp/B00006JSUE). Too small. But I guess you can do chicken PARTS in it. Posting the method will disrail this thread and turn it into a fried chicken thread. Please meet me over in **Cafe Society** where we can discuss like gentlemen. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/89 "2017-11-19T20:58:19Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What do you like about NW Arkansas? Fayetteville? I’ve never been there, but the weather seems alright. I’ve heard good/not bad things about the area (though Wal-Mart comes from close by). The Waynesville/Asheville area of NC seemed fine when I was there (early summer), didn’t see winter. More humid than I’d prefer, but not oppressively hot. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > Back to that bug thing: We ain’t got nothin’ like this out west [palmetto bug - Search Images](https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=palmetto+bug&FORM=HDRSC2) > > Nor do we have giant, flying, hissing roaches that attack! I’ll take a rattlesnake any day over that shit! On the other hand, [solpugid - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=solpugid&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpuLnSwsvXAhUT32MKHV48D-8Q_AUIEigB&biw=360&bih=588) ---
**Author:** ![contradancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@contradancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/contradancer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/90 "2017-11-19T22:11:34Z")
I don’t remember mentioning the entire region. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/91 "2017-11-19T22:59:50Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Well, I am a southern girl. The heart wants what the heart wants. And I want to stay here. The pace is slower and the people I run with are nice. And the food, cannot beat it! My favorite Southern girl versus Yankee girl joke: Yankee girls say, “You may.” Southern girls say, “Y’all may.” (I’m a Southern boy, born and bred—Southern girls are better in every way.) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/92 "2017-11-19T23:05:38Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > My favorite Southern girl versus Yankee girl joke: Yankee girls say, “You may.” Southern girls say, “Y’all may.” (I’m a Southern boy, born and bred—Southern girls are better in every way.) And statements like that probably contribute to the feeling of the Op. Is it only the girls you like, how do you feel about the southern Women? Funny thing, I found good women everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/93 "2017-11-19T23:10:48Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > You look at pretty much any chart showing various measures of welfare (as is being well, not a government handout) and the South is the bottom of the barrel every time. Oddly enough, those maps exactly overlay a map of religiosity. > > Not to mention it’s hot, humid, and largely a shithole outside of select urban areas. Whereas Kansas is a Mecca of culture and education, not to mention a model of good governance. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/94 "2017-11-19T23:13:29Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > And statements like that probably contribute to the feeling of the Op. > > Is it only the girls you like, how do you feel about the southern Women? > > Funny thing, I found good women everywhere. Southern girls grow up to be Southern women. Who said I didn’t like 'em? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/95 "2017-11-19T23:19:22Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Southern girls grow up to be Southern women. Who said I didn’t like 'em? Well you said girls, how would I know you weren’t like would be Senator Moore? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/96 "2017-11-19T23:51:42Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Well you said girls, how would I know you weren’t like would be Senator Moore? That is a base and dark canard; one that I deeply resent. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Terrific](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tom_terrific/32/342_2.png) [@Tom\_Terrific](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Terrific)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/97 "2017-11-20T00:06:56Z")
I grew up in central Illinois, in a sundown town right outside of Peoria. The Pekin High School team name was the Chinks. Tell me how all the real racism is in the south. When I left for Florida in the mid seventies it was still all white. They were making progress though, they had one Chinese takeout place. I lived in Florida for the next 30 years. There was racism, but no worse than I saw anywhere else. I know of white guys helping some of the black guys with paying their bills and driving them to and from work every day when the weather was bad. I left Florida to move to North Carolina because the heat and humidity was about to kill me. North Carolina some heat but nowhere near the unrelenting humidity of Florida. I live in the western foothills so I get decent seasonal changes without most of the extremes of being further north or south. I know some really good people living in all three states. I am glad to be out of Illinois because of the winters and the rustbelt lack of jobs. Glad to leave Florida because of the weather, both hurricane and the heat and humidity. I really enjoy where I am now but the contempt many northerners have for the south is just wrong. If northerners don’t realize that the southern people know they are being made fun of for being southern, all I can tell them is bless your heart. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/98 "2017-11-20T00:18:53Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > That is a base and dark canard; one that I deeply resent. And you insulted probably 80% of the women in the country with your silly statement. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/99 "2017-11-20T00:40:42Z")
When we went to SC (for the beach) and saw my daughter-in-law’s sister who lived there, she warned us not to discuss politics where we could be overheard as it could possibly be dangerous. I still cannot understand why they believe that the Republican party has their interests in mind, when it is clear that the only thing two Republicans can agree is that the rich are oppressed by their taxes. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010/100 "2017-11-20T01:02:50Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I still cannot understand why they believe that the Republican party has their interests in mind, when it is clear that the only thing two Republicans can agree is that the rich are oppressed by their taxes. Nor I. One of the kids who shelved books at the library where I worked in Little Rock remarked that she was in her teens before she realized that Conservatives could be intelligent. My ex Wife was born in NY and lived in NH. They also have roaches and over weight people. I stopped to let two women enter a grocery store before me in NH and smiled. They ran away. I’m 5’ 3" and 120 lb. My Wife chided me for leaving my wallet on the counter; someone would steal it, she assured me. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-like-the-south/802010.md?page=6)