Why is being Southern equated to being stupid?
I’m a college graduate, I’ve had in-door plumbing for 60 years, I wear shoes, I own guns and expect to meet my Maker some day.
But, I don’t suffer fools lightly and am not fooled by some damned Yankee! I resent, mightily, the imposition of forced Northern values on my culture!
“I resent, mightily, the imposition of forced Northern values on my culture!”
Soviet Union goes bankrupt, Ukraine goes free.
The South has changed A LOT in past thirty yrs. I grew up in eastern NC.
Speaking of stupid. I just moved from the east to our mtns here in NC. And I live with the natives. Wow, at first I thought these people were stupid, but they are smart, talented and very industrious (after all they and their ancestors had to survive the winters here). Their children and grandchildren are getting educated and making good money. The Depression didn’t end in mtns until early seventies. I love the natives. They have the same values that I learned growing up in eastern NC.
But what gets me and my native friends are the northerners that come here and say “Oh we love your mtns - it is so quaint here” Then these same people run for office and change the very things they like! We’ve had enough of those kind of outsiders. Our mtns are beautiful and natives have cared for them for centuries.
Hard to get rid of northerners once they come.