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Probably somewhere more liberal-leaning. I can't imagine most places down south being crazy misfit types.
I suppose this varies, but I'd say that the (overall fairly conservative) southern town we lived in had a greater variety of "misfits," or at least a wider range of eccentric people, than anywhere else we've lived. It was also the most conservative place we've ever lived.
I mentioned Eureka Springs, Arkansas and when I Googled "eccentric towns", to find smaller, they listed it in a prominent way. Although the main article I found was over 20 years old. (It sounds like they have interesting conservatives or Christians too. John Michael Talbot's hermitage, Catholic, is nearby along with things of Evangelical Protestant interest.)
Probably somewhere more liberal-leaning. I can't imagine most places down south being crazy misfit types.
Seems how the largest media centers where they tell people across the US, "what's in" "what everyone's doing" up north, I would imagine it would make sense to be somewhere down South that's non-conformist. Or somewhere out West.
Seems how the largest media centers where they tell people across the US, "what's in" "what everyone's doing" up north, I would imagine it would make sense to be somewhere down South that's non-conformist. Or somewhere out West.
People on here contradict themselves so much. They say the south is all polite with lots of manners, but yet on this thread, there's misfits. Most people wouldn't think polite/manners goes hand in hand in with troublemaking misfits.
People on here contradict themselves so much. They say the south is all polite with lots of manners, but yet on this thread, there's misfits. Most people wouldn't think polite/manners goes hand in hand in with troublemaking misfits.
First I'm not one to say that. I think the thing about the South being ultra-polite is partly a class and partly a region issue. Lower-class people in Arkansas or Tennessee or Louisiana, in my experience, tend to be far more blunt than Midwestern people. There is a bit of an emphasis on respect for age or "prestige", but it's not necessarily the same as politeness. You say "sir" and "ma'am" and "thank you", but an older person may call a younger person "you dummy" pretty often in my experience. (Although a crude example "Mama's Family" portrayed some of that side of the South) The "super-polite" thing I think might be more upper-classes in the "Old South." (Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia)
Second I don't think a misfit is necessarily the same thing as a trouble-maker. I think it's more about not conforming or fitting in. You can not conform, and have a loudly critical view of those who do, but you can also not conform but not really care what others do. ("Fool on the Hill" kind of misfit) Southern arts and literature are full of colorful misfits. Tom Wolfe is an atheist from Virginia who wears bright white suits and supported George W. Bush. Sun Ra was from Birmingham, Alabama although he claimed he was from the planet Saturn so may not count as Southern Truman Capote grew up in Alabama. Hunter Thompson was from Kentucky it seems.
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Truman Capote grew up in Alabama. Hunter Thompson was from Kentucky it seems.
