in the USA is there still hatred between the North and the South ?

Question

or is it all in the past and do you guys all get along now ?
(scots dude wants to know is it kind of like scotland vrs england )

Answer 1

Naah!!! For the most part all of that has died down. I live in the North and I visit the South quite often. When people from the south learn where I am from they still continue to treat me with kindness and respect. I always have a good time whenever I go down there and have developed a many of friendships from people of all races. Peace and God bless.

Answer 2

The increasing polarization between the parties has recently revived much of the regional hatred that existed at the end of the 19th century. In the most recent midterm elections, the Democrats have all but been vanquished from the Southern states while the Democrats are increasingly becoming the party of the North and West. Out of 12 senators representing New England, for example, all but one is a Democrat. There is increasing resentment in the North and West, which still generate most of the country's wealth, that much of this wealth is redistributed to points South while Southern politicians hypocritically rail against Big Government. This is a major contradiction in American politics that increasingly has regional overtones. There are also increasingly prevalent perceptions of the South by the North as poor and ignorant, which are reified by government statistics that depict the South as a region with low incomes, poor education systems, and high rates of incarceration. For example, the Government recently ranked all states in terms of their wealth, employment, education, and crime rates. The bottom 5 states were all from the South (Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas) while the top states were all from the North. These kinds of statistics imbue Northerners with prejudices that Southerners are poor and ignorant in spite of a strong Bible culture while Northern 'Godless' states all have lower rates of divorce, incarceration, and unemployment. It is not uncommon in the North to hear people talk about the irony that the North won the civil war but that now the South increasingly controls the direction of the Federal Government.

Answer 3

Hmmm....I looked at the answers before mine and was a little surprised. I lived for 41 years in the South and I've spent the last 6 1/2 in the North. I think there is definitely some stereotype issues in both areas, but I am not aware of any hatred. If anything, I think there's a lot of interest. Here in the north people seem interested in what it's like down south. They ask me lots of questions. When I go visit back home I get the same friendly, interested attitude there too.

Answer 4

Best look out else they'll send those Welsh mercenaries after ya again! We do have a small core group of wingnuts here in the USA who wholeheartedly believe in the myth of the "Lost Cause" and who rant "The South Was Right!" Most of us pay them little mind.

We make a great sport of reenacting the American Civil War - in fact, it's become somewhat known in the U.K. as well - should you enquire, you should be able to find such a reenactment that's open to the public - but beware: they'll do their best to recruit you - and some are not above, shall we say, the tactics of the old impressment gangs - all in fun, of course. Ahoy - off the rocks there! Is that Captain Semmes aboard the legendary raider CSS Alabama? Sound the alarm! Every man to his gun!

There are, of course, regional differences here, just as there are between regions in the UK. We do usually work them out without too much violence, though a few cracked skull sometimes liven up the old pubs now and then. Can't be too bloody civilized, else we'd all go daft!

Answer 5

There are still a good many misconceptions about the cultures. I am from the south. We are a lot more intelligent than some northerners think we are. I have been up north on several occasions and it definitely has it's attractions. The main one for me is the weather, it is not nearly as hot in some of the northern states as it is down here. Mississippi in the summer is HORRIBLE, one of my friends says she knows she's going to heaven cause she is living in hell right now.(joking about the heat). I was very impressed by the way a good many northerners responded to the needs we had here after Hurricane Katrina devastated us. There's good and bad in both, but I don't think hatred is the feeling any more.

Answer 6

I live in Georgia and the hatred towards the North is very real. When I was in high school there were so many students who still had this "the South will rise again" attitude and that attitude sickened me. There were some northerners I knew who came to the South and some of them commented on the racism in the South. The attitudes still exist.

Answer 7

There really isn't anger any more ; however there is quite a bit of regionalism. In some cases people from northern states believe that those living in the South are uneducated. I have many friends from the North that have moved to the South and talk about how great things are in the North, complain about how bad things are in the southern states, but they WILL NOT move back.
The SOUTH has risen again!

Answer 8

No hatred, but some occasional grumbling. Some of it comes from folks who like to dress up in white sheets (you know who you are) and should be ignored. To some extent, though, there are still some Northerners who look down on Southerners as 'hicks' or 'rednecks' and there is some justifiable resentment to that. Most genuine animosity related to the Civil War itself is long gone; the general concept of states' rights that motivated the Confederacy is still alive but no longer restricted to the South.

Answer 9

We get along, but the lines of custom and speech, the way we do business, the activities enjoyed are very different.
There is a feeling in the north that southern people are lazy and stupid.
The south has the feeling that the north is cold, unfeeling, and self centered, rude and will cheat you when they can.

But we have to get along, we are united and are strong in that unity. We both know that and so we get a long.

Answer 10

I live in a state that was considered a border state --where there were people who fought for the north and people who fought for the south. Families were divided during Civil war times and many times they would split and fight on opposite sides. I guess what I am saying is my viewpoint is scewed because nobody here talks about it or seems to care about it because we have people here for both sides!