[GetmeoutofAR]

Originally Posted by bluenoter

Tijuana, Mexico? What exactly do you mean by hospitality.

Ive heard about southern hospitality my whole life. I'd like to experience it just once

[RangerDuke08]

Originally Posted by GetmeoutofAR

Ive heard about southern hospitality my whole life. I'd like to experience it just once

LOL! Getmeout, You'll have to try Northern inhospitality first.

[GetmeoutofAR]

Originally Posted by RangerDuke08

LOL! Getmeout, You'll have to try Northern inhospitality first.

I'm serious Ranger, I want to find a place with real genuine southern hospitality

[northbound74]

Originally Posted by GetmeoutofAR

I'm serious Ranger, I want to find a place with real genuine southern hospitality

I think I know what you mean.

Arkansas doesn't have any such thing on a grand scale.
People are stand-offish at best. Often, they are down right rude and condescending. Too many folks there have a "I'm smarter and better than you" attitude. Not in an elitist Ivy-League way, rather a brash-redneck kind of way. In Little Rock, there's plenty of the yuppie arrogance going around. If you're a single male, the gold-diggers in that town are enough to make you want to join the monastery.

There are some very good people in Arkansas, though, but Southern Hospitality doesn't even remotely apply to that state as a whole. They just aren't very welcoming.

Originally Posted by RangerDuke08

LOL! Getmeout, You'll have to try Northern inhospitality first.

I haven't been to as many places as some, but I've been to 33 states and one Canadian province, and have lived in six states.
The absolute friendliest, most hospitable people I've ever come across were in Minnesota. Maine was a very close second.

There's nice people everywhere, and there's not-so-nice people everywhere. Why Arkansas has such a disproportionate amount of the not-so-nice ones, I may never know.

Yeah, yeah, if you don't like it leave. Don't worry, I did. I'll never go back.

[Rachael84]

I often travel to the south and have never seen southern hospitality. I think it's a thing of the past. There should be a new term called "NY hospitality" since I hear from so many out of towners how friendly and helpful us NYers are

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

I often travel to the south and have never seen southern hospitality. I think it's a thing of the past. There should be a new term called "NY hospitality" since I hear from so many out of towners how friendly and helpful us NYers are

NYC had Confederate leanings during the Civil War. That must explain NY Hospitality.

[GetmeoutofAR]

Perhaps southern hospitality is just a set of mannerisms people associate with being friendly when in reality its not

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by northbound74

I think I know what you mean.

Arkansas doesn't have any such thing on a grand scale.
People are stand-offish at best. Often, they are down right rude and condescending. Too many folks there have a "I'm smarter and better than you" attitude. Not in an elitist Ivy-League way, rather a brash-redneck kind of way. In Little Rock, there's plenty of the yuppie arrogance going around. If you're a single male, the gold-diggers in that town are enough to make you want to join the monastery.

There are some very good people in Arkansas, though, but Southern Hospitality doesn't even remotely apply to that state as a whole. They just aren't very welcoming.



I haven't been to as many places as some, but I've been to 33 states and one Canadian province, and have lived in six states.
The absolute friendliest, most hospitable people I've ever come across were in Minnesota. Maine was a very close second.

There's nice people everywhere, and there's not-so-nice people everywhere. Why Arkansas has such a disproportionate amount of the not-so-nice ones, I may never know.

Yeah, yeah, if you don't like it leave. Don't worry, I did. I'll never go back.

Well it all in how you see things, the least friendly just in visiting for us was Penn, but not the entire state, just Philly, same with Baltimore and the entire eastern coast up to yes, Maine. We found the people in Maine and Vermont just stand-offish, not really rude..

I am glad, you left our state if you were so unhappy, I would like to know where you lived to get the impression people thought they were better than anyone???? Sounds like you lived in Little Rock, well, in NWA everyone says hi, men still hold doors open for women, people say excuse me, if they run into you in the aisles or come close to running into you, kids know the word, thank you and we wave at our neighbors..If that isn't southern hospitality what do you call it???

Nita

[joebaldknobber]

Originally Posted by GetmeoutofAR

Ive heard about southern hospitality my whole life. I'd like to experience it just once

Philadelphia?

[weaverar]

Originally Posted by GetmeoutofAR

WOW...i love this thread.....and Im gonna jump right in...Could someone on here explain to me what southern hospitality is because in my many years in Arkansas ive never experienced it. I'd really like to experience it..could someone on here please tell me where I could find me some real southern hospitality? I've experienced yankee hospitality but never southern hospitality..

Southern hospitality...

An aunt and uncle of a new southern acquaintance having you over for Thanksgiving because you have absolutely no money. 1978

A preacher bringing you a Christmas diner from his church of 12 because he heard that you were living behind a southern acquaintances business in a popup tent trailer. 1982

The southern acquaintance's father bringing you the culls from his harvest because he knows that you have no food. 1982

There have been many more instances similar to the above and this is part of why we moved here the last time in '97. You have to show an effort of understanding the culture and respect where people are coming from in order to exerience the hospitality.

We lived in NW Maine for 5 years. My husband was originally from ME. The towns people wouldn't talk to him because we had moved there from AR and they thought that he was from AR. If they had come out of their exclusive little clicks long enough to get to know the man they would have been blessed. I am the flat lander from NH!