Why do southerners think they're so much better than northerners?

Question

UGH...>:(

Answer 1

Still bitter over losing the war.

Answer 2

All I hear all the time from northerners is how much better it is where they came from.

I dont think we're any better here, just different. All I ask is that you give us a chance or shut up and go home.

Im probably moving soon due to all the northerners moving in, but that is because theyre all tearing down the trees and fields to put in houses. All the charm is gone. They all want to live in subdivisions and I like actual nature.

Answer 3

We don't hate northerners. We just wish they weren't in denial about a lot of things, such as racism and education. Many educated people are from the south, and there are also racists in the north.

For JessicaMarie:
Southerns are proud of what they went through. They appreciate the history of their country and what happened in it. What you're saying is almost like Jew bringing up the holocaust and blacks bringing up slavery, and you telling them shut up and forget about it. You can always just accept the past, but it doesn't mean you have to forget it.

I dont know about the whole "the south will rise again." I've lived in the south my whole life and most of these people like to put on an act for the northerns with the whole yeah slavery is cool, we didn't lose the war, etc. Maybe the certain parts you lived in was bad but not all of the south is like that. I doubt that you will hear somebody from Alabama say "NO! The south really won the war" If people REALLY believe that then they're dumb as a stump. I love the south and i would never leave. I love the people, but you dont have to agree with their beliefs of history, like supposedly the South really won. Yet, I think everybody needs to check up on their history because there are more KKK members in the north than the south and that people up north did own slaves and not everybody up north wanted to free the slaves. Of course no matter what i say about the south, not saying we're better than the North, but don't think that yall have to hide everything that you feel almost to the point of hypocricy.

Answer 4

Who have you been talking to? I am from the south and I don't think I am better than you. I don't know where you got your information. If you go down south people will speak to you even if they don't know you. I have been up north and it isn't that way. I love the north we have traveled up that way often. Keep in mind you have snobs in all areas. Maybe you just found one or two. If you come to our town you wouldn't think that way. Hopefully you would be able to change your mind. :)

Answer 5

i've lived in both the north and the south (for equal periods of time) and southerners are definitely the WORST about being "proud" of their heritage. they feel that they are a separate part of the country, but they don't realize that no one else cares and that everyone else just considers themselves american. i think part of it is an inferiority complex; they're still all bent out of shape about losing the war (for instance, there's a confederate monument in every town - you don't see that up north, do you?) and are upset that the south was much slower to develop than the north as a result. it is horrible down there, and i hated every second of living there. southern people put on this whole facade of "southern hospitality," but it's such a joke; unless you're from there and are "like them," they don't let you forget it. they still call people from the north "yankees," for gods' sake!

and yes, there are racists in the north and intelligent people down south, but no one is waving a confederate flag north of the mason-dixon line. in high school, people used to have confederate key chains, flags on their pick up trucks, etc. don't tell me there's not something funny going on there.

For Slipknot: I'm not saying that southerners shouldn't be proud of their past. There are many wonderful people and events that bear remembering and celebrating. I'm just suspicious about some of the stuff that gets "celebrated": what is so wonderful about a bunch of white (redneck) high school kids (like the people I went to h.s. with) going around saying "The South will rise again!" What does that even mean? They want to resurrect slavery? For that matter, I grew up in an average middle class suburb in South Carolina. One day, a black family moved into the neighborhood. A few days later, someone put a KKK card in their mailbox, and they had moved out again in a week. The bad part one, no one was really surprised that it happened! Is that something in the past the deserves to be celebrated and carried on to the next generation? I'm not saying that the north doesn't have problems, too; as I said, I've lived in both places and both have their fair share. In the north, where I live now, for instance, there are problems with segregation and urban decay, not to mention poverty and homelessness. In the south, thought, it seems like it's always masked as "history" and "heritage," and people get very defensive and call you a "dam* yankee" for not buying into everything.

Answer 6

Because humans always have to think they are better than someone else. It is annoying to say the least.

Answer 7

Cause we are. And for a southener that's all we need. Plus ya'll have some pretty wierd laws, and we just can't understand how you could live up there.

Answer 8

Nothing but another asinine generalization, sweeping a whole group of people into one silly tirade. Ask a proper question, or ask nothing at all.

Answer 9

Because they are still in denial that they lost the war and they lost BIG TIME. Plantations burned, slaves set free to own land and considered people. I think they're still pi**ed off. For real!

Answer 10

We do not! We think ya'll think the same thing cuz you enunciate so much better than we do.

Answer 11

because they are!1