I would have said just the same a few years ago, and believe me, I’m a proud conservative and a proud southerner-but the rot has made deep inroads here as well as anywhere. In fact, I’m afraid that too many in the south want so badly to show how “with the times” they are, that they may even be worse. The same propaganda is spread here through academia and media as elsewhere. Too many females in the south can’t wait to show their leftist cred (if they even have enough brains to think it through to that point, instead of just wanting to be one of the “cool kids”), and the sodomites here are chomping at the bit to have a great big boogeyman, in the shape of the “backwards” south, to make themselves out to be the victims, again.
Yep, Mrsmel, I’m from MS, and I see it among my younger nieces, nephews, and cousins. Not to mention the older liberals who are so excited that they can ‘come out of the closet’ themselves and start pushing back against all those they consider ‘rednecks’ and ‘Jesus people’.
‘Got a granddaughter growing up in the SC upstate. Been going back and forth a couple of times a year for a bit now.
Maybe I make my own Dixie down there. Out to Limestone TN, where David Crockett was born...across the Great Smoky Mountains of NC, I’ve never run into any disagreeable types, yet. And it sure is pretty country.