Yankees: How accepted are they? (Birmingham, Valley: fit in, HOA, university)

[Threestep]

The heated pool may be the poster's bigger issue.

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by TootsieWootsie

Threestep, if you think I am "profiling" then you are from the South, and haven't experienced the radical prejudice that some Southerners have towards Yankees still. You must be aware it exists?

Racial prejudice? Is "Yankee" a race now?

Originally Posted by blueeyes30

As we all know, southerners never experience prejudice when they leave the south.

And all "yankees" are perfect and have no prejudice...

Originally Posted by Threestep

The heated pool may be the poster's bigger issue.

True...don't Birmingham's excellent YMCA's have heated pools? Even the local privately-owned gym here in podunk Decatur has a heated pool. That might be his/her answer.

[cpg35223]

Originally Posted by Southlander

Racial prejudice? Is "Yankee" a race now?


And all "yankees" are perfect and have no prejudice...


True...don't Birmingham's excellent YMCA's have heated pools? Even the local privately-owned gym here in podunk Decatur has a heated pool. That might be his/her answer.

I know the JCC has one.

[Venom]

Yankee... why is that word still used? -_-

It's so stupid.

[Threestep]

[quote=Southlander;9204569True...don't Birmingham's excellent YMCA's have heated pools? Even the local privately-owned gym here in podunk Decatur has a heated pool. That might be his/her answer.[/QUOTE]

It is a long way to Decatur:>) I read the necessity along the line of "in-house" not public. As the poster has left the thread we will not know.

[AAbsolute]

Originally Posted by TootsieWootsie

How accepted are Yankees in Birmingham? I'm particularly interested in the Vestavia/Mountain Brook area of the city.
Are the natives friendly with outsiders or are Yankees looked somewhat down upon? I grew up in both the South and North, and had plenty of Southern relatives who were still fighting the Civil War when I was a kid--and still are today! I'm convinced it I wasn't their relative that they would ignore me (I'm from the Yankee branch).
What is the truth about how native Birmingham folks feel about Yankees? In other words, how Southern is it there?

Just stay below the radar, don't tell people where you're from, try not to strive for success and you'll be fine. If you can make yourself like any other jar on the shelf and give more than your receive people will accept that. Don't tell any stories of your previous life or of things that you've found work well. If you do make news, good or bad, I think it would be best for you to quietly move on and start over.

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by Threestep

It is a long way to Decatur:>)

I did not mean they should drive to Decatur to swim. Just that even small-city Decatur has an available heated pool; surely Birmingham offers them as well. The OP, wherever they are now, could always buy a house and add their own pool.

Originally Posted by Venom

Yankee... why is that word still used? -_-

It's so stupid.

Because it's descriptive of the accent and, often, the attitude, especially toward Southerners. Witness:

Originally Posted by AAbsolute

Just stay below the radar, don't tell people where you're from, try not to strive for success and you'll be fine. If you can make yourself like any other jar on the shelf and give more than your receive people will accept that. Don't tell any stories of your previous life or of things that you've found work well. If you do make news, good or bad, I think it would be best for you to quietly move on and start over.

[cpg35223]

Originally Posted by AAbsolute

Just stay below the radar, don't tell people where you're from, try not to strive for success and you'll be fine. If you can make yourself like any other jar on the shelf and give more than your receive people will accept that. Don't tell any stories of your previous life or of things that you've found work well. If you do make news, good or bad, I think it would be best for you to quietly move on and start over.

Okay. My nomination for the Idiotic Post Of The Day. Seriously, seriously dumb. This guy has watched way too many episodes of In The Heat Of The Night, or perhaps lived in some backwater and made zero attempt to know the locals.

[Threestep]

Originally Posted by cpg35223

Okay. My nomination for the Idiotic Post Of The Day. Seriously, seriously dumb. This guy has watched way too many episodes of In The Heat Of The Night, or perhaps lived in some backwater and made zero attempt to know the locals.

I second that!

[TootsieWootsie]

Southlander: Reread my post. I said "radical prejudice" not "racial." You're so eager to rebuttal that you aren't even reading the words of posts.
And I was raised in both the South and the North, so am well aware of the prejudice that can exist on both sides; although, in my opinion, the South is much more prejudiced towards Northerners than the Northerners are towards the Southerners. Just my experience.
And Yankees is not the way Northerners refer to themselves, but it is the way many Southerners refer to Northerners. I'm just quoting Southern friends and family with that reference. I know no Northern person who refers to themself as a Yankee.