What do you think of the Southeast US?

[Mango Elephant]

Inspired by the CSA flag thread, what do you think of the South? Are they white trash hillbillies, immoral bootydancing girls, christian conservatives, fantastic cooks rolleyes, drawling hogwashing rednecks, or something else? No bashing, please!

EDIT: changed title to be more precise

 

[kulade]

Well the TV tells me they're all rasist and incredibly dim, so I'll go with that.

 

[Perfection]

Southern US, home of Burn Notice:

 

[Tani Coyote]

Well obviously it is in need of a few adjustments; the social conservatism has to go as it's holding the US back from being rightfully number one. I wanna beat the pants off the Dutch for being the most socially liberal nation on Earth!

I think I like Southern food; we went to this one restaurant(I forget what it's called but instead of cups, they have jars. ) and I liked the food there. They had some odd dishes... fried pickles, something called apple butter... I think that's Southern food based on the theme they had going. Dunno though.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Southern US, home of Burn Notice:

And Ke$ha!

 

[madviking]

Well, *technically speaking*, I'm from the southern US, but I just don't feel anything.

But if you out about twenty miles west or south from me, it gets pretty redneck-y.

Popeye's ftw.

 

[Ajidica]

apple butter

Mmmmm. Apple butter........
Thats one of the few things I miss about the south. I haven't found any stores that sell good apple butter up here in Minnesota.

As for my opinion about the south:
I like it, the people are generaly nice (but generaly a bit too socialy conservative for me), the part of Georgia I lived it was beutiful with huge magnolias blooming in the spring.
For what I didn't like: Too bloody hot and humid in the summer, the traffic in Atlanta (outbound rush-hour started at like 2pm), and crappy public schools.
The part of Georgia I lived in didn't have too many rednecks and I lived a bit east and north of the Bible Belt, but those are probably the worse things about the south.

 

[Cutlass]

Better than it was. But I wouldn't want to live there

 

[GenMarshall]

Sticky, mosquito infested, bible thumpers, socially conservative, Confederate fanbois...


...so yeah.

 

[Cynovolans]

As a Southern American, I feel we are the only real Americans.

EDIT: And we are the only part of the country that knows how to make sweet tea.

 

[Zelig]

I don't know which states comprise the "Southern US".

 

[Luckymoose]

Modern, diverse and always a party! Don't talk about us being racist we got so many Hispanics and blacks mixed in with us that we don't even notice it.

P.S Coca-Cola AND Pepsi! What? Did that blow your mind?

 

[GenMarshall]

I don't know which states comprise the "Southern US".

Anything south of the Maison-Dixon line

 

[Mango Elephant]

My god, I went to Boston last summer, and they didn't sell sweet tea in their restraunts! And as for crappy public schools, that depends on where you are. In Wake country (where I live) the public schools are nice, but in Durham country (a county next to Wake) my father is forced to put my brother in a private school because the public schools there are so terrible.

And we are really diverse. About 50% are white, 35% are black, and 15% are latina/o with some asians mixed in.

 

[downtown]

The public schools, GENERALLY speaking, really are terrible, when compared to their midwestern counterparts. There are exceptions of course, in university towns and in specific areas (like Northern Virgina and North Carolina's research triangle), but poverty and a much stronger culture for private schools (in part as a result of desegregation) have held them back.

I didn't enjoy living or working in the South, but I don't think the place is without merit. Certainly it doesn't have a monopoly on racial tensions, ignorance or poverty (have any of you guys ever been to Chicago or Boston??). It has superior food, and several interesting cities. It just wasn't for me.

 

[Zelig]

Anything south of the Maison-Dixon line

California?

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Too bloody hot and humid in the summer,

The mild winters make up for that

 

[Fifty]

Its significantly less rasist than the north in my experience.

Although my experience may be different cuz I live in the black south not the white south (about 80% black in my town).

The weather sucks.

 

[downtown]

Its significantly less rasist than the north in my experience.

I'm not sure if I would agree given my personal experience. From what I saw, minorities were much more likely to LIVE together than they are in the North, but I still noticed a lot of rasism (and I lived in the black south too). I guess I've never lived in a heavily non-white city in the North so, I don't really have anything to compare it to.

 

[Cynovolans]

The weather sucks.

That reminds me of a Ugandan man that visited my social studies class one day.

"America has been blessed with many things . . . but weather's not one of them."