Why do a lot of folks assume the worst about Southerners?

Yes, I'm very southern. I was born and bred in the South. I'm not racist, as I love all people, and I believe each culture or race has unique characteristics to offer to a friendship. I have all my teeth, and yes, I wear shoes. I've never even lived in a trailer park. I try each day to dissolve my ignorance. I've never even known anyone in the KKK. I don't care about mixed couples, because whatever makes them happy that's fine with me! I don't care if you're gay, just because you love differently doesn't mean God hates you. I don't believe in heaven or hell, and I don't preach to anyone. In fact, I am converting to Judaism. So why am I a hick?

Why do a lot of folks assume the worst about Southerners?
Honey, I can tell you, it's because of two things, they don't know any better, and they damned well don't WANT to know better.





I'm about as Southern as they come, born in Upper East Tennessee and raised in Southwestern Virginia. I can't help but laugh about it anymore when someone hears my accent and arbitrarily deducts a million IQ points from the git-go. Just makes me smile that much bigger whenever they want to have a go playing Jeopardy or Scrabble, and they take a good old fashioned butt whuppin!





As far as what other people do, I'm very much of Hank Williams Sr.'s frame of mind : Mind your own business and you won't be minding mine. I don't give a damn who you love and live with as long as y'all are happy and you ain't bothering me or mine, and you're not bitching at me telling me how I ought to live, and who I ought to love. Your religion is your business, and my relationship with God is between me and Him, and I don't see any need for an intermediary.





Honey, you're no more of a hick than I am. Got all my teeth, live in a brick house, and I haven't lived in a trailer park before, though I did live in a trailer when I was a youngun. Though, I do admit, I love to go barefooted, and soon as I hit the door, the shoes are the first thing to go. :-)
Reply:I don't assume the worst....


I live in New York and I love Southerners. The accents, the ideals, cowboy hats and pick-up trucks, the stereotypical "redneck" attitude, the "women are just as strong as men" attitude...love it all. My brother in law was from Georgia and he and his family are the sweetest, strongest, nicest, funniest bunch of people I've ever met.





On the other hand I AM against gay marriage and hardly ever wear shoes.


Stereotypes and opinions are fascinating aren't they? Not in a necessarily good way, but still..





Anyway, I digress...there's nothing in the world better than a southern boy.


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Reply:They think we're all dumb. And that racism is still really bad here.(which it is)



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