It is so ignorant and naiive to pre-judge someone from their place of residence. I understand the South has its “culture” but this type of attitude is what makes people from elsewhere think southerners are stupid and foolish.
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Why is it even thier business what other people do? Its not hurting them
Tom: The confederate flag has nothing to do with slavery idiot, it stands for southern heritage..
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Even when Southerners from different parts of the South, say Savanah, GA and Memphis, TN meet outside the South they have a relationship. Even when there is a racial, ethnic, or age difference. But the same thing doesn’t happen with people from different parts of the North, say Buffalo and Milwaukee. Although it might with different New Englanders when they meet outside of New England. .
I meant with this question something positive that the South has not something negative that the North has!
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No highly negative comments, please.
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I live in Raleigh, North Carolina and this state was a former confederate state so we display the Confederate flag. A lot of people (usually people from the northern states) say that southerners who display the Confederate flag are racist … but that’s not true. I have no problems with black people but what I do have problems with is the current cultures of black Americans (the way they dress, the RAP music, etc). The reason I display the confederate flag is to honor the history of this state, and honor the soldiers who died in the civil war, who were from North Carolina.
So why do a lot of people from northern states have to judge southerners who display the Confederate flag and assume they are “white trash” racists? Because we are not, we are simply honoring our heritage.
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I’ve always heard that generally, Southerners are more friendly. Just today, I heard someone who is originally a Northerner, but now lives in the South say that people in the North are nicer, and that the people in the South are mean. What do you think?
Obviously I know that there are both nice and mean people wherever you visit, but I’m speaking generally…
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So I went on a road trip with my family and we went through the south. We met some characters along the way and it was fun. Each part of the country has it’s own vibe and so do it’s people, it’s really quite interesting. So I was wondering what you think when people visit from up north? Do you notice our accents or anything like that haha? Thanks 
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I’m from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I met someone from Texas and they asked me where im from and im like, “michigan” then she called me a yankee? im like wat the heck? so i was like you HICK! lol
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If so, what was it?
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its to resolve a bet as as a rough guide we agred on Birmingham as the nothernmost southern point, everything north of it is northerner and everything south of it is southerner.
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