Great article. Thanks for posting.
I moved to SC about 5 years ago. Haven’t looked back since. Of course, I moved down here because my values matched. So it was easy to assimilate. I’m getting a bit annoyed at the number of transplants that seem to be showing up lately with no desire whatsoever to be part of the greatness that is the South.
my wife is the same,
I got her to move down here and she hates those from up north who insist the south should be like the north, that they want their shopping malls, bicycle lanes, housing communities, gated housing,
She loves it down here and never wants to see the north again, she’s been accepted by southerners because she fits in but if those who want it to look like the north then they need to move back up north
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welcome BTW
—Of course, I moved down here because my values matched.—
Same here. I just had lunch for the first time with my boss. Turns out we are politically redundant. Not only regarding our beliefs, but our level of knowledge about specific issues. It was pretty amazing.
Your northern transplants sound a bit like the immigrants coming to America, live in enclaves of like immigrants who want everything they left in the old country, brought to their neck of the woods. Don’t speak, but a smattering of English, want an American education, but the Americans teaching their children must speak their motherland’s language, or at least understand it.