I would call Huntsville more like mid south than deep south. It’s northern Alabama which is closer to east Tennessee — a longtime Republican holdout going back to the Civil War — culturally, than the deep plantation South. Furthermore, Huntsville is a big time techie mecca with more PhD’s per capita than Silicon Valley thanks to its defense industry connections. Lots of international types around as well thanks in part to its excellent engineering oriented university. That particular Krogers serves the upscale Madison area where all the engineers live. That said, it’s still Alabama and the southern culture is very evident.
My Sister married a Naval Aviator and they have been all over the United States as well as most of the world. She says the rudest people they have met are from San Francisco.
They are retired and now spend 6 months every year in some country usually in Europe. My Sister says the Scots are friendliest people in Europe. The last two years they spent in Hungary. At first they got a bad impression as no one would offer to help you if you obviously did. Then they got to noticing that if you actually asked them for help, they were very forthcoming. They even asked a student for directions and he spent the whole day driving them around showing different attractions and then refused any money.
It’s nice, isn’t it? I live in Houston and some people are nice here, but when we were south of Lafayette, the people couldn’t have been nicer.
You can call someone anything
as long as you end with
“Bless Their Heart”
Like the store manager in this story, which I totally believe. Yet there was a level beyond which we did not go. It may not seem to make sense in the context here, but it does to me; and I call it "honor."
I sometimes trash southernors here for hypocrisy and thin skins, but the underlying fault is not living up to your heritage. Y'all should do and be better.
Welcome to the south. Kick your shoes off and stay a while.
"They're courteous, open doors, you sneeze they say bless you," Chris Gamell, of Dallas, said.
A Jackson, Miss., man said he was a bit skeptical of what he would see in this "cow town," but he said he was converted after spending a couple of days here.
"Everybody's been awesome!" he said.
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Have you tried the boiled peanuts yet?
Bible-believing Christians, of whom there are many in the Bible belt, are blessed to be a blessing. Never deny them/us our blessing!
It is pretty cool being in the South. Zero stress, very easy lifestyle, nothing rushed, people are much slower and willing to have a basic life. It is probably the way everyone should be.
Welcome to the South! Enjoy.
Did you work with the old FoxPro database back in the day?
All G.R.I.T.S (girls raised in the south) have, for generations, been taught the art of southern hospitality. It’s just the way we do things here.
I live in the Florida Panhandle. Florida’s First Congressional District has been called the most conservative one in America.
The people are much the same as people from Georgia, Alabama, South and North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri.
The part that reminds me more of my home is East Texas. Basically the exact same people.
Happens all the time in L.A.
(Lower Alabama)
Welcome to Alabama!
They are happy they are not in MA. Everyone here is freakin’ miserable because its so cold.
Welcome!