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Who really gives a damn what ignorant people think. It is usually the ignorant and less educated that feel they have to put others down. This is an effort to try and make their miserable lives feel better about themselves, but it doesn't work.
The Fly in the Assumption Soup here is that many Liberals are Southerners. Painting with broad brushes only tends to get the painter messy.
Which is kind of why I started thinking about it in the first place. I'm in Tennessee and there are plenty of "conservative sounding" liberals. I tend to deal with the opposite actually. I have no southern accent so when a conservative hears me talk, much less if I mention I used to live in California, there's a 100% chance they assume I'm liberal, when in reality I'm a Republican. A moderate one, but a Republican none the less. So I wonder how Democrats in the south feel.
Which is kind of why I started thinking about it in the first place. I'm in Tennessee and there are plenty of "conservative sounding" liberals. I tend to deal with the opposite actually. I have no southern accent so when a conservative hears me talk, much less if I mention I used to live in California, there's a 100% chance they assume I'm liberal, when in reality I'm a Republican. A moderate one, but a Republican none the less. So I wonder how Democrats in the south feel.
Having grown up in the South, you hear politics of all kinds spoken in accents of all kinds.
Applying political leanings to degree-of-twang proves nothing.
I consider myself mostly liberal but grew up in the South and still looove southern accents. I still have one but it's been ruined by a touch of Midwestern twang to go along with it.
I love traveling through the South; stopping at restaurants and listening to the southern accents.
I do think people are 'judgy' about it. It's ok. Sometimes being underestimated is a good thing.
I had a somewhat liberal friend from back up North recently tell me that I must see "all kinds of stupid" here in the South. I told him that I have been all over the country and stupid can pretty much be found anywhere. He agreed on the spot.
The one stereotype I find to be just plain wrong is that racism is so much more prevalent in the South. I have seen and found more examples of racism by far up in the Northeast.
My experience mirrors your exactly! Basically, the my experience with self identified liberals is that they only views people as groups or categories and therefore cannot understand that each person, as an individual, can be racist or not, intelligent or not, etc., regardless of their geography, race, religion, or political affiliation.
The bias is in the media too...I've yet to see a newscaster, famous movie/tv actor etc. with a southern accent unless they are playing the role of a southerner.
The bias is in the media too...I've yet to see a newscaster, famous movie/tv actor etc. with a southern accent unless they are playing the role of a southerner.
That's because newscasters are trained to affect an "accent that isn't an accent." It's called General American and is meant to sound shorn of regional accents. It's also sometimes called "Network English" or "Network Standard."
It's similar to British Received Pronunciation in that it is viewed as a "standard" rather than regional accent.
probably as much as cons stereotype all Democrats as socialists and or communists who are all sponging off welfare
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