or have you noticed that some people look down their noses at someone who lives in the south. I am not talking about south of the Mason Dixon, although that is certainly true. I am talking about smaller geographical locations. I moved around a lot during my career and I saw this more than once. We had moved to DE from VA and were at a cocktail party and were introduced to another couple that had moved from VA. When I said we had lived Waynesboro the lady lifted her nose a notch and said they were from "Northern Va". Well excuse me. While in DE it was common to hear people talk about "lower slower DE". I guess that was city folk talking about the agricultural region. It seems this goes on in other places; south side of Chicago, Atlanta, southern parts of Ohio and other states. Is there an explanation, coincidence, or my imagination?
Is it my imagination
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USAF385
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You have that everywhere. Both in a large geographical sense as well as in small regional ways.
"See that guy over there? He lives on MAPLE ST!" *snicker snicker*
There are a lot of people who need to feel superior and if the only way they can feel that way is to scoff at where someone lives, there has got to be some huge insecurity they're hiding.
I don't judge people based on where they're from. I served with people from all over and all sorts of walks of life. Trust me it doesn't matter where you're from but how you were raised.
Pay these people no attention!
"See that guy over there? He lives on MAPLE ST!" *snicker snicker*
There are a lot of people who need to feel superior and if the only way they can feel that way is to scoff at where someone lives, there has got to be some huge insecurity they're hiding.
I don't judge people based on where they're from. I served with people from all over and all sorts of walks of life. Trust me it doesn't matter where you're from but how you were raised.
Pay these people no attention!
Remember your Southern manners. When this snooty "lady" made her remark, you should just smile and say, "Well, bless your heart." Which is a nice way to say, "Witch, I'd like to grate your face off with a brick wall."
sipowicz
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My mom told me to never judge people based on where they live. She said skin color and ethnic or religious persuasion are all I need to form an opinion.
No it's not just you.
I live near Atlanta and some of the work I have done has taken me around the northern part of the state. I have found that the further away you get from Atlanta and the "upper class" parts of town like Alpharetta, Johns Creek, and so on. You find people like me. You find people that are courteous and have an appreciation for a slow paced town.
When you get in the "higher class" part of town. They seem to think they are better than you somehow. They see me wearing a "blue collar" uniform and may think what they will.
I like wear I live and you couldn't pay me to live anywhere near these people. They may have a new Benz or what have you in their driveway every 2 years, and a 6000 sq foot house less than 20ft from their neighbor. most of them are drowning in debt. The women are high maintenance and when the money is gone so are they.
I live near Atlanta and some of the work I have done has taken me around the northern part of the state. I have found that the further away you get from Atlanta and the "upper class" parts of town like Alpharetta, Johns Creek, and so on. You find people like me. You find people that are courteous and have an appreciation for a slow paced town.
When you get in the "higher class" part of town. They seem to think they are better than you somehow. They see me wearing a "blue collar" uniform and may think what they will.
I like wear I live and you couldn't pay me to live anywhere near these people. They may have a new Benz or what have you in their driveway every 2 years, and a 6000 sq foot house less than 20ft from their neighbor. most of them are drowning in debt. The women are high maintenance and when the money is gone so are they.
Alpo
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The correct response to "we are from NORTHERN Virginia", is "Oh. a Yankee", said with as must disgust in your tone as you can possibly put there.
shouldazagged
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Once again, the people who make movies and television have a lot to answer for. They're almost entirely clustered, so to speak, in New York, LA, and so on. Their portrayals of small-town and rural folk are most often condescending if not outright caricatures. The dialogue usually is written by someone who thinks he knows how "southern" or "country" people talk but rarely does, having gotten his ideas from the scripts of other jacklegs who think they know but don't, and it goes on and on. Literary inbreeding, compounded by dialogue coaches who teach actors from California or the Northeast to speak with what they think erroneously is one of the various southern or rural accents (there are many).
The situation isn't helped, of course, by such idiocies as "Lizard Lick Towing" and "Call Of The Wildman" which deliberately foster dumb-*** stereotypes.
The situation isn't helped, of course, by such idiocies as "Lizard Lick Towing" and "Call Of The Wildman" which deliberately foster dumb-*** stereotypes.
A proper Southerner can roll the word "yankee" off their tounge so that it sounds as vile and evil as any slur against man ever uttered.
Bostonians can too, when talking about the ball team from the Bronx.
Remember what Jeff Foxworthy said, "Redneck is a glorious lack of sophistication."
Bostonians can too, when talking about the ball team from the Bronx.
Remember what Jeff Foxworthy said, "Redneck is a glorious lack of sophistication."
LVSteve
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Here it is the reverse. Those who live in North Las Vegas have to mutter it. Those who live in the NW part of the Vegas valley are supposed to be the hoity-toity folk.
fiasconva
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Since we have Honey Boo-boo, Swamp people, Duck Dynasty, Gypsies, some trailer park, and numerous other shows on all the time I'm not surprised. How many of those shows portray Southerners in a positive role?
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though you were gonna say south texas lol
gregintenn
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Where I live, we look down our noses at the people in the northeast; especially around Washington D.C.
I'm a dark skinned, American Indian, disabled factory worker and my wife's a white Italian and works as a home health care aid. Nothing fancy, just honest work. When we tell people we're from West Virginia, they look at us and say, "you don't look like brother and sister."
carpriver
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I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, People from the Lower Peninsula think we UPPERS are backward and slow and lazy. But they retire from their stressful jobs and want to retire to the pease and quite of the woods and waters of the UP. They want to change things , bring the city to the woods so to speak. If I want to shop I have to drive 100 mile to find a Lowe's, Macy's, or any major retailer. we have small towns that are laid back. The people who live here are miner, loggers,farmers, fisherman, small business owners We are a independent group of people. we are proud to be call Uppers we know what it takes to live in hard winter weather. one area of the UP got over 310 inches of snow this past winter.
I spent much of my life work with people form all over this country, It didn't matter were they were from because we were all away from home doing a job. I met many good people and a few not so good.
I spent much of my life work with people form all over this country, It didn't matter were they were from because we were all away from home doing a job. I met many good people and a few not so good.
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gregintenn
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When in high school, a girl moved down the road from me. She came from somewhere in Michigan. After a while we got to know each other well enough that felt comfortable, she confessed to me that she was surprised on her first day of school to find out we actually wore shoes in Tennessee.
Straightshooter2
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Rich, you have to remember that Alpharetta is a Cherokee word. It means "white people driving Volvos."
CW
shouldazagged
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Rich, you have to remember that Alpharetta is a Cherokee word. It means "white people driving Volvos."
CW
And you really don't want to know the origins of names like Johns Creek and Buckhead.
Bkreutz
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I've lived in many different countries on many different continents and I've realized that Cities are cities no matter where they are located. If you want to meet the real people you have to get away from the population centers. I live in a medium sized metro area but my street is 3 blocks long and my neighbors have been the same ones as long as I've lived in this house. (29 years)
