Remember, it’s us Southerners who are bigots
Glenn experiences the Democrats Southern Outreach Program.
I’m reminded of this post from SayUncle past.
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February 28th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
“we in nyc laugh at the south and think you people are pathetic”
The tourests from NY feel the same way about folks here in Wyoming too. They’re rude and insulting to us and then wonder why we dont extend “western hospitality” to them. I’d sooner extend hospitality to a skunk than a New Yorker. Plus they’re forever getting lost. I guess there has to be a street sign every 300 feet for them to figure out where they are. New Yorkers are the last people on earth to call anyone else pathetic.
“It must be tough to think of yourself as so cosmo and still live in hell”
Anyone who lives in NYC ought to know about that firsthand.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
The biggest bigots I’ve ever known have been from New Jersey. And I don’t just mean bigots against the south; racist, homophobic, AND anti-south. Hoplophobes, too.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I lived in Jersey for three years. I concur.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I’ve told my friends who live in the south, and generally self identify as liberal and Democrat, and don’t get why I can stomach voting Republican “You need to come up here and see what liberals are like up here 1) they are batty socialists and 2) they will look down on you because you’re not one of them, no matter what you think now”
I think almost all of them that have actually tried living up here would agree that I was right. Northeastern liberals are insufferable.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
As an ex-new yorker, I feel the sentiment. Mainly, the people from the City feel that way about everyone not from the city. Pretty annoying having to hear how much things are better in the ‘city.’ There’s only one county worth living in in NY, and only because you can walk out with a gun after you buy it. Doesn’t help that the Democratic majority tends to vote corrupt every time.
For many of them, the south begins west of Albany and south of the New York border. Those leeches, taking my tax money. Screw NYC.
But I do agree, any place is better than New Jersey, though.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
“Northeastern liberals are insufferable.”
ALL libs are insufferable, no matter where they live. What I cant figure out is why they think they’re so superior to everyone else since all they ever do is whine and lie.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Northeastern liberals are insufferable.
Not much different than Southern conservatives, in my estimation. Different views, sure. But their attitude toward people who disagree with them? Remarkably similar.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Zip it, hippie.
(Just kidding, but it seemed the perfect punchline to your comment. ๐ )
February 28th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
But they’re supposed to be, unlike tolerant liberals. ๐
February 28th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I think it’s best to refer to anyone from the New Yorker/New Jersey area as “New Yawkas”. (If they assume an attitude, of course.) It works best if they have an accent.
There are only two types of people in New Jersey: those who relate to New York and those who relate to Philadelphia. There is no middle ground.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Tam:
Just kidding, but it seemed the perfect punchline to your comment.
Agreed!
Uncle:
But theyre supposed to be, unlike tolerant liberals.
No, they’re the liberal elite, remember?
Actually, I think the bigger issue is that “asshole” is neither a partisan nor a regional demographic. It exists across the entire spectrum, in every region of the country, in large numbers. But if you grew up in the South, you’re used to Southern assholes, and if you grew up in the Northeast, you’re used to Northeastern assholes, and neither of those groups is likely to have any idea what to make of the other.
And in both regions, there are all-too-frequent examples of people who perpetuate the negative stereotypes, whether it’s loud-mouthed, know-it-all New Yorkers, or rednecks who continue to have their inexplicable love affair with the Confederate flag…
February 28th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Alcibiades:
I think you’re missing South Jersey, which is its own animal.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:14 am
In my misspent youth, I was forced to travel to New York City for work. After my job was finished and I was able to return home, I decided that I would prefer to be at Castle Dracula at sunset than back in Manhattan.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Have you heard of a recent book called, I believe, “Sundown Towns”?
It’s about towns which often had signs at the city limits saying, “Don’t let the sun set on you here, Nigger!”
There was exactly one of them in Georgia.
There were many, many of them in Illinois, the Land of Lenin, uh, Lincoln.
February 29th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
in both regions, there are all-too-frequent examples of people who perpetuate the negative stereotypes, whether its loud-mouthed, know-it-all New Yorkers, or rednecks who continue to have their inexplicable love affair with the Confederate flag
So where does that leave Californians? ๐ I think San Francisco can out smug New York in liberal insufferability.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I just remembered that New York was a major center for Copperhead activities during the Civil War. That means, in a way, they are Confederates.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I have lived and worked in every region of this nation. I can say without fear of valid contradiction that most of the people I have met, anywhere I have been, were as nice and polite as one would let them be. Yeah, even in NYC.
The problems happen when we, identify ourselves as part of a group, and that identification is more our validation of worthiness than our individuality is.
When we give priority to our “group” as our identifier we become embroiled in competition with other members of that group to prove we are MORE group than they are. Then, of course, we are in competition with other groups and we must attack and ridicule them as much as possible to maintain our bona fides in our own group and further to prove our group is superior to their group. Therefore, if our group is superior to their group and we are more group in our own than other members of our own, then we are really special and can feel all kinds of good about ourselves.
It’s all bullshit, but that’s the way we play.
One observation about New Yorkers and maybe a comparison or two. I have experienced New Yorkers putting themselves at considerable inconvenience to help another. The thing I notice about them as opposed the good ol’ southern boys I grew up with, is that they will not smile at you or appear to be very accepting of you or your story. Whereas the good ol’ southern boy will smile at you and shake your hand, engage you in all kinds of small talk and just seem to be real “down home” friendly.
The southern boy grew up in an area and society where he usually knew where to find you if you did him wrong and being overtly friendly wasn’t apt to be any real detriment to himself so aloofness holds no particular allure for him.
The New Yorker deals constantly with people he will never see again and being from one of the people magnets of the earth is aware that skells of all kinds come looking for prey. Therefore, even when he helps someone out he doesn’t smile at them or be overtly friendly just in case he is being scammed. That way he saves himself the embarrassment of having to admit he was totally taken in. Yet I have experienced them going a deal out of their way to help another.
Both are usually good guys, until they assimilate with their group. Then they become insufferable
Or I could be wrong and Yankess and Prunepickers could all just be pricks. ๐
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Alcibiades: Newyawkas couldn’t be Confederates unless they moved south. Copperheads from northern states were just traitors.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 am
They’ll all Confeds in my book…