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My friend from Lexington, North Carolina believes in southern hospitality but I heard it's rare to find southern hospitality in North Carolina unlike Texas.
My friend from Lexington, North Carolina believes in southern hospitality but I heard it's rare to find southern hospitality in North Carolina unlike Texas.
I think it's a silly annoying stereotype. The most hospitable towns I've been to are actually northern.
NC is not Mayberry and we're not a Podunk state. "Southern Hospitality" seems like a polite way of calling us Podunk hicks, in my opinion. I live in a large city that is home to one of the top 10 busiest airports in the world. Raleigh, Ashville, Greensboro, Wilmington and Winston also are not podunks. We're like the 10th most populous state and I think we're poised to be 6th or so in a decade.
I know you didn't mean use that phrase as if we're inferior (and I may be the only one to take it as such) but I feel like that phrase is so condescending.
My friend from Lexington, North Carolina believes in southern hospitality but I heard it's rare to find southern hospitality in North Carolina unlike Texas.
That's OK. It's hard to find good BBQ in Texas, unlike North Carolina.
I find it odd that anyone would associate hospitality with being "podunk hicks", or otherwise assume that it implies inferiority. IMO good manners and being friendly to strangers are very positive traits that we need more of, and I'm proud to know that NC has plenty of it (and yes, it does still have lots of it). I do think it's becoming more rare in the larger cities as more people move here from other parts of the country. But I find that Southern hospitality is alive and well in most parts of the state.
I grew up in Raleigh, lived in Rocky Mount and Greenville for a few years, but currently live in the Midwest. Every time I return to Raleigh to visit family, I am shocked at how rude cashiers and people are in general. I guess I was used to it living there, but after moving away, you start to notice things.
Yankee go home then maybe we can become the southern state we used to be before the northern invasion.....and if hick means a person from the rural south then Im proud to be a hick..what the hell does podunk mean?? Sounds like some word a yank would make up lol
I still think southern hospitality is alive and well, among southerners. Maybe not all of us, but it still exists and is a treat to experience. I think it has gradually diminished as attitudes have changed over the years, but I don't think n that is a result of people deciding to be mean. I think k it is partly due to groups of people who seem to thrive on complaining and misery.
No matter, it's still alive. It's just getting harDer to find.
North Carolina is more southern than Texas IMO, and I feel like most would agree. If anything, we'd have more southern hospitality.
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