Why is it that southerners (below the M/D line) have such a mistrust of northerners and feel the need to lie?

Answer 1

cuz the war ain't over.

Answer 2

Speaking for myself as a southerner, I don't mistrust northerners, nor do I feel the need to lie, to anyone. I think it's odd that the question automatically prompted comments about a war conducted back in 1861. Apparently comments about northerners versus southerners still tends to draw comments regarding the civil war. I personally make no connection between north vs. south nor grouping northerners or southerners into certain categories according to personalities.

I think we're such such a diverse nation that such a mindset or comparision is no longer valid. A country of 300 million people can't be so easily characterized anymore.

Answer 3

I'm not completely sure what you're talking about, though I think you'd get better answers if you asked your question in a more polite way.

I'm a Northerner and have lived and worked in the South for extended periods of times. I've made some good friends there over the years, but there are people there who do have a chip on their shoulder against Northerners.

As far as "lying" goes, are you sure they weren't just trying to be polite? They do sometimes seem to avoid confronting others with unpleasant truths/feelings, possibly both from a sense of politeness and because so many people are packing guns. ;->

Answer 4

I was born and raised in New Jersey and damn proud of it! However, I lived in Virginia 2 years and Texas for almost 7. And I swear the Southern geography is like living on another planet. I returned from Texas just a little over a year now back to the North my home state and honey I was so happy to be back home that once I hit the New Jersey turnpike and saw the sign "Welcome To New Jersey", my daughter and I pulled over, jumped out the truck ran inside the first building we could get to which was a hotel with a McDonald's in the lobby and started dancing in the lobby singing "I Love New Jersey!" People looked at us as though we had lost our minds. But we were on cloud 9. I will never go to live in the South again as long as I live. Southerners are very nice people. However, they still have a slave mentality. I've been free all my life! I'm not trying to be down with the slavery deal! And then you hear people in the South complain about their environment and talk about how they want to leave but they never take the initiative to do anything about it. Procrastinators is what I call people who talk and don't do. When I say I'm going to do something......you better believe it's going to get done by hook or crook! Now I have a fantastic job, a fine @ss man, a nice place to live. It's cold right now but hell that's what that man is for. To keep me warm! LOL! Take care!

PS: And to you edward_th...talking about the war ain't over! Honey we kicked your @ss the 1st time I know you don't want another spanking! So shut it up, before you get noonchucked again! As you Southerners say "youall" don't want none of the North again! Please don't get it twisted! Now if you think you can't beat us, bring it!

Answer 5

Well we have not gotten over All the carpetbaggers from the north. Worse yet they are still arriving in herds. We have our own culture you have yours. Up there most people don't realize that the Civil War is still fresh in our memory. The "Y"'s think it was about slavery. It is much more complicated than that.I have raised my children to be proud of their heritage. As a southerner I do have good manners and am friendly and polite.Inside though I am thinking whoa listen to that accent! Can you believe how rude ! what's the hurry? well f they stay long enough they may improve. What do we lie about?

Answer 6

i'm from large apple city and that i nevertheless stay right here. i actually love human beings from the South and that i've got actually no longer something agaisnt them. they are very dazzling and correctly grounded human beings, and that i detect them to be nicer whilst in comparison with those that stay right here in NYC. I even have met a large style of human beings from the south and that they are the coolest human beings i've got met, and a solid pal of mine is from Louisiana. as properly, i admire females from the South, exceedingly ones that have an accessory. i do no longer comprehend why even though it is authentic for some reason that a large style of human beings right here interior the north think of that southerners do in comparison to human beings from the north, and vice versa. it is authentic, the civil conflict ended a protracted time in the past and intensely almost every person is over the conflict anyhow.

Answer 7

Well, being from the South and moving North, I found that people here mistreat a lot of people from the South. They make fun of us and treat us as though we're not quite as good as they are---even if we can do a better job. I'm a radio news anchor, and nobody can tell where I'm from, but I noticed that if they ask and I tell them, they tend to treat me differently. This doesn't usually happen with the more educated people, but it has before. I don't blame people still in the South not trusting them. I personally resent their mistreatment and prejudice. My people have been here over ten thousand years(I'm Eastern Cherokee,) and I don't exactly like people whose families have only been here two generations telling me they're superior.

And to Kate WFAN, I really resent your assumption. It's hardly "just a fact" that people are smart simply because they come from a certain part of the country. That's very ignorant. I have run into so many people who broadcast their ancestry, yet don't even speak their language while living in Connecticut. I speak six, including mine--yet to people like you, I'm still stupid because of where I was born. I've experienced prejudice simply because of where I come from in a region of the country that prides itself on being so open-minded.

Answer 8

I don't know who has lied to you or to what you are referring. I do know that many northerners, not all, come to the south with a "superiority complex". And they think that they are going to run rampant over "those dumb hicks" (their opinion). And they are going to teach them how to live, how to work, etc. Then they have the nerve to say things like: "If it weren't for us northerners, you wouldn't have toilet paper, indoor plumbing or light bulbs." (Actual quote I heard.)
In short, a lot of northerners are rude and insulting to Southerners and think they are better and Southerners totally resent it.

Answer 9

I don't mistrust Yankees, lol, and I don't lie.... but the way some Northern people are is kinda funny. People from the North and South can have different traditions and values but that's just what makes us all unique.

Answer 10

well that is a generalization, my southern husband trusted me so much he married me, i'm from NYC, he's from a very small hick town in NC, i fell in love with him because he has high morals, is extremely hardworking, and honest, you should get out and meet some more southern people before you generalize

Answer 11

You've got to be kidding me!!!!! Don't you know that mis-trust is inherited.