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Northern States have an irrational hatred of Southern Culture. This hatred has NOTHING to do with slavery or the the civil war or racism in general. This bigotry predates the Mason Dixon Line. This bigotry crosses party lines, it is NOT a Liberal vs. Conservative thing. I notice it more in people from PA. It's not just a disapproval, it's a hatred and a contempt, an almost visceral need to bludgeon Southerns to death.
How did this irrational hatred come to be and why is it allowed to continue?
So I am not the only one that noticed this. They seem to think it is all right to beat up on anything Southern and heaven help the one that defends being Southern.
I knew a man from a small town outside Pittsburgh who moved to CO. He was in a situation where a man with a southern accent was showing him around a building. He told me the entire time part of his brain was angry at listening to this ignorant southerner talking to him, so angry he had to resist the urge to make snide remarks about how stupid he was. He felt a desire to punch the man. The rational part of his brain kept reminding him that the southern male held a PhD and WAS incredibly smart.
Enduring a 45 minute tour with his own mind at war made him sick to his stomach and he actually threw up over it.
I wasn't shocked to hear his story at all. I'd already heard People from the northeast talk this way about southerners, just incredibly irrational hatred, like they have an obligation to physically beat southerners.
What two states? 'Down south' and 'up north' have different meaning to different people. As well, it's not evenly distributed. There are pockets of bigotry. The worst I've seen is PA from Pittsburgh to Philly, as well IL seems pretty bad.
Can you speak for YOURself? What is that mean? If you're talking about slavery or the civil war, I've done enough research to know that's not the origin. It has nothing to do with Politics.
You're from the South but you're a Chicagoan? IL is one of the worst states from my experience. Could you please give more details about your POV?
I grew up in the south, moved to Chicago, and live in the south again. On the off chance I heard anything negative about the south it was a joke, not unlike the jokes I heard southerners make to people from the north who had moved down south.
It's just not something that I ever saw happen. I even have a slight accent and all that ever got me was dates with girls who liked the way I formed my vowels.
it's just a totally different culture and background of people basically. the south has always been mainly people of english-scot/irish ancestry and the northeast was a mix of dutch and english. the fact that people have a different dialect has an effect on how people view one another too. even tho george washington was a native southerner, the people from the south were more loyal to the british before independence and on top of that wanted to secede from the united states. that's why you see more monuments and memorials to george washington and the fathers of this country up north more than down south. that's what pisses northerners off about people who have southern culture and ancestry i guess.
if it is not political perspective more than anything, you tell me what it is.
i hope this doesn't make you upset tho. that's just how history played out.
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