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I really don't consider New Orleans to be all that southern, for what it's worth. I really like the Port Au Prince references and all. I just went out to a business park in the suburbs to get Popeye's and enjoyed it, thinking to myself "well isn't this nice, everybody's so polite, and you don't have the feeling that a gunfight is going to break out at any moment". Then I got back into the city and immediately though what I usually do, which is that even living in the New Orleans suburbs is too normal for me and would drive me crazy. Y'all may be like "a whole 'nother country", but we're like a whole different hemisphere.
There are conservative, religious people in Utah and Idaho. They must have been classified incorrectly as well, right?
Obviously YOU don't know the south. Our entire culture defines us, not just our political stance or religious preference. I'm not conservative nor very religious, I must be from Chicago...
There are conservative and religious people everywhere but the south has a lot more of them. If you compare the south to California or the south to the northeast, the south has a much higher percentage of religious and conservative people. Of course not everybody in the south is conservative and religious but the overall percentage is a lot higher compared to NYC for example. It's politics and religion that make the distinction between the south and the west coast or the south and the northeast. If you remove politics and religion from the equation there's very little difference between the northeast and the south. The reason why a lot of NYers have a bad impression of the south is because of religion and politics.
If by Southern you mean sipping sweet tea on the veranda and going to Baptist service on Sundays, then New Orleans has a lot of differences compared to the rest of the South.
There are conservative and religious people everywhere but the south has a lot more of them. If you compare the south to California or the south to the northeast, the south has a much higher percentage of religious and conservative people. Of course not everybody in the south is conservative and religious but the overall percentage is a lot higher compared to NYC for example. It's politics and religion that make the distinction between the south and the west coast or the south and the northeast. If you remove culture from the equation there's very little difference between the northeast and the south. The reason why a lot of NYers have a bad impression of the south is because of religion and politics.
If you compare rural California, PA, Minnesota, Washington, Maine, Michigan, etc to rural southern states. Then we are all southern. How can you compare the south to NYC? A more formitable comparison would be Georgia to New York state.
If you compare rural California, PA, Minnesota, Washington, Maine, Michigan, etc to rural southern states. Then we are all southern. How can you compare the south to NYC? A more formitable comparison would be Georgia to New York state.
I fixed that sentence.
Outside of politics and religion there isn't much of a cultural difference between the northeast and the south. If you compare GA to NY state the difference will be what I've been saying which is mainly politics. The south usually votes Republican and the northeast usually votes Democrat. What people usually mean by culture is religion and politics they just don't realize it.
Outside of politics and religion there isn't much of a cultural difference between the northeast and the south. If you compare GA to NY state the difference will be what I've been saying which is mainly politics. The south usually votes Republican and the northeast usually votes Democrat. What people usually mean by culture is religion and politics they just don't realize it.
Outside of politics and religion there isn't much of a cultural difference between the northeast and the south. If you compare GA to NY state the difference will be what I've been saying which is mainly politics. The south usually votes Republican and the northeast usually votes Democrat. What people usually mean by culture is religion and politics they just don't realize it.
Yea because food, language, and way of life isn't culture.
Yea because food, language, and way of life isn't culture.
He makes some good points. Political (ideological) and religious differences are some of the biggest differences between the regions. I can't deny that I feel uncomfortable being around so many left wing socialists in certain places of such states as California, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Then again, I feel comfortable being around people in Missouri and Kansas, a more conservative and religious environment, granted it's in the southern midwest. That's not to say that leftist places give me anxiety, I simply don't care being in an environment that seems a bit insane, in my opinion.
Outside of politics and religion, general differences include accents, language, expressions, colloquialisms, a more friendly atmosphere, traditional cuisine and some aspects of music (country and contemporary Christian are more popular in the South than other regions.) There's also certain traditional architectural styles of development in town centers. History also gives a region more of an identity and it becomes part of the overall culture. Hence, the Civil War history of the South.
He makes some good points. Political (ideological) and religious differences are some of the biggest differences between the regions. I can't deny that I feel uncomfortable being around so many left wing socialists in certain places of such states as California, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Then again, I feel comfortable being around people in Missouri and Kansas, a more conservative and religious environment, granted it's in the southern midwest. That's not to say that leftist places give me anxiety, I simply don't care being in an environment that seems a bit insane, in my opinion.
Outside of politics and religion, general differences include accents, language, expressions, colloquialisms, a more friendly atmosphere, traditional cuisine and some aspects of music (country and contemporary Christian are more popular in the South than other regions.) There's also certain traditional architectural styles of development in town centers. History also gives a region more of an identity and it becomes part of the overall culture. Hence, the Civil War history of the South.
LOL you sound like you are some Okie from the 1920s. Afraid of California or Massachusetts. Do you honestly think that all people do all day here in CA or out in MA preach "leftist" or "socialist" ideology? Most people go to work or are too preoccupied to worry about such things like they do in small Southern towns where that is their entertainment for the day.
LOL you sound like you are some Okie from the 1920s. Afraid of California or Massachusetts. Do you honestly think that all people do all day here in CA or out in MA preach "leftist" or "socialist" ideology? Most people go to work or are too preoccupied to worry about such things like they do in small Southern towns where that is their entertainment for the day.
My wife is from southern California. I'm not "Scared". I'm simply uncomfortable with the ideology of southern California found on the coast. It doesn't mean that I'm anxious in such a place. It means that I find the people of the place at odds with how I view the world. Out in the inland empire, the desert, or valley, and it's not as much of an issue.
By the way, this isn't a "small town issue". I live in a fairly populated suburban area that is very conservative, on the order of voting for Republicans by a 90-10 margin. Politics aren't spoken of in most instances, much like you claim. However, if you bring up the conversation, people will give their opinion. Ideology and culture is simply known and understood for all who choose to see.
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