Why don't people like the south?

As having never been to the south, I can assure you that they still complain about the pussies on the west coast and in the northwest.
 
American, British or Canadian she's not sure and does it really matter...
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It's poor, uneducated, ignorant, and creepily religious. That's about it.

The worst part is really how fat and ugly they are. I hate being surrounded by fat people. Even the "skinny" people have huge guts.
 
CastletonSnob said:
You don't hear southerners talking about how much they dislike northerners.
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as a northerner who moved south, i heard it all the time. southerners just dont control the media. i always said that southern hospitality only applied when dealing with other southerners.
 
superpunch said:
It's poor, uneducated, ignorant, and creepily religious. That's about it. The worst part is really how fat and ugly they are. I hate being surrounded by fat people. Even the "skinny" people have huge guts.
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Let me guess, another Californian? Sounds like you are talking about California or Southern Florida.

Hey, fat people can keep the house warm in the winter. Lower the electrical bills. But fat folks are in the North were they can't get out and exercise during the winter. Just ask our Canadian friends.
 
ProBoxingInsidr said:
as a northerner who moved south, i heard it all the time. southerners just dont control the media. i always said that southern hospitality only applied when dealing with other southerners.
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If you'd stop acting like a damn yankee you'd get some of that Southern Hospitality.
 
CastletonSnob said:
You don't hear southerners talking about how much they dislike northerners.
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Because birds always peck on the best fruit.

The South has the finest women, the best food and the greatest culture in the US.

Yankees are rude and abrasive; they lack common decency.

 
superpunch said:
It's poor, uneducated, ignorant, and creepily religious. That's about it.

The worst part is really how fat and ugly they are. I hate being surrounded by fat people. Even the "skinny" people have huge guts.
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It sucks, but I have to back this up. I lived in NY for the vast majority of my life. Having spent two years in the south, I'm still not used to how slow everyone down here is. Everything takes longer. People here are generally fatter. A lot of people here see stuff like education and book-reading to be for people who are stuck-up or weak. There's still a very obvious and playfully ignorant kind of racism running through the place. And the religiosity of the whole place is worst of all because I feel it fuels all the things I mentioned before it.

There are about 5,500 people in my shitty little podunk town and there are 5 churches.

I actually love the weather and enjoy low-level interactions with native southerners. I haven't had to shovel snow since moving here and people who work in stores and restaurants are generally friendlier. It's phony-baloney bullshit that seems like everyone is trained to perform, but whatever. Just don't get too into talking to them because a lot of them are so far from reality and so far from the intellect necessary to grasp reality, that there's no reason to really bother.

The South is a great place to move if you want to recede from society and live cheaply. I rent a 3 bedroom house with a nice little yard for $600/mo. My woman and my pets like it.

I didn't know what I was getting into when I moved here, but pretty much everything they say about the place is true. It's generally slow, fat, dumb and racist.

I blame the hookworm.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/

Southerners Weren’t 'Lazy,' Just Infected With Hookworms
The story of the postbellum South, as told by parasites.

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    Poor white sharecroppers in Alabama, 1936. Image: Wikipedia/Library of Congress

    Stereotypes are almost always the conclusions of lazy science—they're just empirical generalizations that are stripped of their variances and encoded as fact into the collective consciousness of a general population. They're the tools of propagandists, xenophobes, and oppressors, and tend to stick around through the ages like a bad smell.

    However, sometime a stereotype will reveal a hidden truth that provides an origin to the myth.

    The trope of the "lazy Southerner" dates back to America's postbellum period following the end of the Civil War. No one really knew where it came from, but the image of a lethargic, filthy, drawling farmer has pervaded art, literature, and popular culture up until this very moment.

    One argument, recently published by Rachel Nuwer for PBS Nova Next, presents some compelling evidence for the theory that a hookworm epidemic was responsible for this rural stereotype.

    The hookworm (Necator americanus) is a parasite that's been called "the germ of laziness," due to the exhaustion and mental fogginess it tends to inflict upon its victims. Historical evidence shows the parasite ravaged the American South throughout the early 20th century, as a result of poor sanitation and a lack of public health programs among the poor.

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    Necator americanus. Image: Flickr/Internet Book Images

    By 1905, the parasitologist Charles Stiles estimated that 40 percent or more of the Southern population was infected with hookworms. The parasite thrives in fecal matter, and the combination of shoddy waste disposal and the rarity of shoes allowed hookworm larvae to enter people's bodies through the webbing between their toes.

    Once hookworms have penetrated the skin, they'll travel through their host's lungs and into their intestines, where they'll survive on a diet of blood they suck out from the intestinal wall. A female hookworm can lay up to 10,000 eggs in a single day, which gives you an idea of how rampant a localized infestation can become in a very short time.

    The "laziness" that's synonymous with hookworm infections is a symptom of iron deficiency anemia, due to blood loss.

    In poor, malnourished victims, the parasite can cause stunted growth and weakness. Children with hookworms were plagued with attention deficit disorders and lower IQ, and the infected often had strange food cravings for dirt, clay, paper, and chalk.

    Unfortunately, Southern states were the nexus for a hookworm-friendly climate, as the parasite loved the sandy soil that makes the region so fertile.

    In 1910, 7.5 million Southerners had hookworms, according to an investigation conducted by the Rockefeller Sanitation Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease. It would take 50 years for the worm to be eradicated from the South. Better sanitation infrastructure, farming mechanization, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and the end of sharecropping almost entirely freed the region from hookworms by 1985.

    We're still not absolutely positive that hookworms brought about the "lazy Southerner" stereotype—there's just not enough definitive evidence to support that. But what we do know, according to 20th century census data and health records, is that areas without hookworm infestations reported greater economic and educational gains.

    So much of history can be told through the rise and fall of disease epidemics, and the legacy of the American South has been shaped a great deal by the tiny hookworm. The physical stereotypes borne out of its takeover may have disappeared with advances in medicine and healthcare, but some elements of the "lazy Southerner" myth have persisted.

    Today, the term's usage is unfounded, but perhaps if its true origins were made clearer, we could lay it to bed as an interesting artifact from a time in America's past we'd hope to never revisit.
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CastletonSnob said:
I live in Texas. I haven't really heard it.
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Bullshit I'm from Texas and growing up it was always damn yankees anytime I'd go some where and someone might say I'm from Detroit it wasn't like oh you're from Michigan it was ah you're a yankee. Just so you know yankee is a derogatory term there.
 
MindTravel said:
It sucks, but I have to back this up. I lived in NY for the vast majority of my life. Having spent two years in the south, I'm still not used to how slow everyone down here is. Everything takes longer. People here are generally fatter. A lot of people here see stuff like education and book-reading to be for people who are stuck-up or weak. There's still a very obvious and playfully ignorant kind of racism running through the place. And the religiosity of the whole place is worst of all because I feel it fuels all the things I mentioned before it.

There are about 5,500 people in my shitty little podunk town and there are 5 churches.

I actually love the weather and enjoy low-level interactions with native southerners. I haven't had to shovel snow since moving here and people who work in stores and restaurants are generally friendlier. It's phony-baloney bullshit that seems like everyone is trained to perform, but whatever. Just don't get too into talking to them because a lot of them are so far from reality and so far from the intellect necessary to grasp reality, that there's no reason to really bother.

The South is a great place to move if you want to recede from society and live cheaply. I rent a 3 bedroom house with a nice little yard for $600/mo. My woman and my pets like it.

I didn't know what I was getting into when I moved here, but pretty much everything they say about the place is true. It's generally slow, fat, dumb and racist.

I blame the hookworm.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/
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you sound like your typical carpetbagger
 
As someone from the bay area and who has only spent a bit in the south it seems fine to me. People seemed cool and normal. If I were to ever leave California I wouldn't mind settling in the Carolinas. The South seems to get a bad rap from its checkered past and the small subset of the population that can't let it go that they lost the Civil War.

One thing that is a trip though is driving through rural Texas and seeing towns of less than 1,000 with like 5 churches. Those places are kind of creepy. Its like something out of Children of the Corn.
 
MindTravel said:
"It sucks. I lived in NY for the vast majority of my life. Having spent two years in the South, I'm still not used to how slow everyone down here is. Everything takes longer. People here are generally fatter. A lot of people here see stuff like education and book-reading to be for people who are stuck-up or weak. There's still a very obvious and playfully ignorant kind of racism running through the place. And the religiosity of the whole place is worst of all because I feel it fuels all the things I mentioned before it."
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Is that a quote from William Tecumseh Sherman? 1865, after the Civil War?
 
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