What exactly do northerners think of people from the southern US? No smart a** answers please.?

Question

I am from North Carolina and over the years there has been a steady increase of people moving to North Carolina from the north. I know from talking to these people, the reasons they have moved down here and what they think of the south. I am curious to know what the opinion is about the south. I welcome opinions from all over but I am particularly interested in the northern US. Please also state where you are from in your answer if you don't mind.

To the person that said North Carolina is not in the south, it is WELL below the Mason-Dixon line......so, guess again.

Also, to those of you who may think that the south is uneducated, I want to let you know that I live near Raleigh, NC and I am not far from Research Triangle Park.....look that up on Wikipedia.

Answer 1

From Indiana- One word to describe the South? Wonderful!!!!! From the landscape to the people.{For the most part} Where else can you be walking down the street and a perfect stranger say hi and how are you doing today? And really want an answer. It seems in the North people have totally forgotten everything about anything.Most up here have no manners, respect, or care about anything but themselves. Luckily with my grandparents being from the south, they instilled alot of those things in me. Remembering back to my grandpa's funeral, the procession was moving down a major highway, and even the 16 wheelers pulled over and waited. Here, people are in such a hurry, if you pulled over to show respect, odds are you would get hit. People say that the south is slow paced, that may be, but maybe its because southerners actually take time to stop and enjoy the smell of roses. Instead of looking at them as their 'ZOOMING" by.

Answer 2

I'm from Connecticut and I don't really have a strongly formed opinion of Southerner's. From my personal experience I have found that people from the South are much more familiar with each other than Northerners. There was a family in my neighborhood from Tennessee and they thought nothing of walking onto another person's property uninvited to strike up a conversation or have refreshments, this initially made me feel very uncomfortable since I personally would never do such a thing. It has also been my experience that Southerner's don't respond to pressure the same way Northerner's do (at least on the job). I don't mean lazy, the response is there, it's just more a matter of fact thing, like the tides, whereas locals up here respond to pressure on the job as though their very souls depended on the outcome of the task at hand.

Answer 3

I don't think it's fair to generalize people, but that being said, here goes...I have always thought of Southerners as being laid back and mannerly people, with social graces and sort of an aristocracy about the culture. I lived in Columbia, SC for a couple years and I found that to be pretty true for the people that were born and raised there. There are so many people moving down there though that I think the culture is sort of being watered down. - - - I do agree with the other response though that I think a lot of people think of Southerners as being uneducated, and I guess that's kind of what I was getting at with the term "aristocracy". It seems like there is the educated privledged class and then there are the uneducated poor. I think that's pretty much whereever you go these days though.

Answer 4

I don't know much about NC except for the basics, but I am from the north and moved to FL a couple years ago and headed straight back to CT. FL was too slow paced for me, and no money in jobs. And of course then there were the bugs and lizards - yuck :).

I've heard a lot of the south is like that, but I'm sure it's only in random parts, but that's my general opinion :). Hope that helps.

Answer 5

I'm from Chicago. I tend to think that people from the South are family-oriented. Many girls I knew from college were Southern Belles, so I think that there may be a focus on traditional female roles and values of beauty, grace, marriage.

The south appears slower paced and more congenial than the North, in particular NYC and Chicago.

Answer 6

I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but I just moved back up here from living in Durham for two years I think NC people are nice, just country and find boring things to be fun. I honestly could not relate to many of the people my age(teens) but my mom thought the place was depressing too so we just moved. I have nothing against the people though they're way more nice compared to northern people though.

Answer 7

i now live in the south. originally from Illinois. i think all people are the same if they are American citizens or legally here. by the way north Carolina is not in the south. it is a northern state. south Carolina is southern. just like Missouri is a northern state. i have a uncle, aunt and cousins who live in north Carolina.

Answer 8

i'm from the north (pennsylvania) and my impression of people from the south has been very positive. every visit i've had to the south i've encountered very nice, polite people. i live in a college town (psu) and there are many southerners who come here to study and again, i've had nothing but positive interactions.

on another note, one of my interests is "localisms" and the people i know from the south have some pretty interesting ones.

for instance, a guy i know from nc uses the following terms:
"buggy" = shopping cart
"toboggan" = winter hat
"coke" = any carbonated drink

i also love sweet tea which was introduced to me from a friend from georgia.

Answer 9

It's the freakin accents and at times it makes some southerners sound stupid as hell when they talk. The southern accent in general not acceptable. Proof of that can be seen while watching the local news program. You will never see any anchor man or woman speaking with an accent.

Pa

Mason Dixon Line is Pa/MD state line
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Answer 10

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