I live in NY State and I can testify to the ignorant condescension against the South, particularly from “upper class” folks here and NE Liberals in general.
I will also say this to that part of this author that still holds his quivering, leftist snowflake bourgeois pretensions about having his kid go to Georgetown instead of joining the Marines: your son will come out of the Marines with greater experience, greater character formation, knowledge of humanity and the real world, and true leadership than he would gain in 4 years at any elite university. If at some point in the future he still wants to go to university, then he will find that his Marine Corp experience will only add to his ability to move ahead in life.
This is very true.
To a lesser extent, it’s true of most young people who take a turn in the ‘real world’ before going to University. I’ve never understood the rush to get them into college so immediately. A lot of them aren’t even sure what they want to do with college, yet.
The military has been the making of a lot of people