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Anyone else sick of yankees moving down south?

posted 9 years ago by bishop-69757
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A little off topic but I always hear people from IL, NY, NJ, MA and not really Yankees but CA always talk about how we suck and do everything wrong. They sure love the warm weather and cheaper cost of living.

[–] Moss_Garden 9 years ago

I'm the kind of yankee who still lives in New England, so I can't fathom why anyone would move south and then complain about the southerners. That's just rude.

*Formerly Nothin_but_the_Rain*

[–] mltosh 9 years ago

Anytime I travel down South (have an aunt in AL) most everyone I run into is polite and very helpful.
If don't move down South, it's because I can't take the heat and humidity - I love the people I've met.
I live in the Midwest. People on both coasts run us down almost as badly as the South, considering us a bunch of hicks, etc.

I consider those that do ignorant -just like we shouldn't consider everyone in CA to be like the "Hollywood type" either. Though sometimes that's hard not to do. :O

[–] MycroftHolmes 9 years ago

By down south, do you mean Florida?

What we got here is... failure to communicate!

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[–] aimei2006 9 years ago

Well I'm a Yankee who now lives in VA and I love it here.

[–] aurorak 9 years ago

How sick does this make you, exactly?

[–] gapeach1 9 years ago

What do you think?

Question I was asked by some from up North. She wanted to know "why Southerners had hard feeling towards Yankees?"

I told her that it was a long time age - but in one word: Carpetbaggers.

[–] amkatz 9 years ago

Doesn't that work both ways ... i.e. one word: Treason?

[–] starwolf 8 years ago

Doesn't that work both ways ... i.e. one word: Treason?

I know this is an old post, but I will say it anyway.

I assume you mean secession and no, it fit no definitions of "treason" at the time. It wasn't even illegal because the law didn't consider it and the Constitution never provided for a state leaving the Union.

A better argument can be made that the North started an illegal war to force the South back in, but what's the point? It's done.

In fact, the first ruling making secession illegal came a few years after the war in 1869 - Texas v White. Prior to that many members of Congress were for treating the South as conquered provinces instead of states, implying that they had, in fact, legally separated from the US and were a conquered nation.

[–] David12222 9 years ago

No. Its not why. We work around a lot of southerns and there is only one reason they're mad at yankees. They figure they had a good system going on(slavery)and the yankees stepped in and messed up their way of life.

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[–] carlc64 9 years ago

I think individually southerners are polite, friendly people -- but collectively the xenophobia, racism, religious fanaticism and hypocrisy is plainly evident (just look at the GOP elections/debates etc)

[–] cookiela2001 9 years ago

I think individually southerners are polite, friendly people -- but collectively the xenophobia, racism, religious fanaticism and hypocrisy is plainly evident (just look at the GOP elections/debates etc)

I'd never visit the south.

Alexandria, VA, outside Washington DC, is the furthest I'll go.

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[–] kao123 9 years ago

I too am an ex-Northerner living in VA. I have experienced both sides of that, good and bad. A lot of people are polite, others are just plain mean. Goes with any place you can live.

Farewell,and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.

[–] rissa-rissa 9 years ago

The cost of living in the south is cheaper because those states receive more /welfare/funding/aid from the federal government.