North and south: enlighten me! Log Out | Topics | Search
Moderators | Register | Edit Profile

Email This Page

  AddThis Social Bookmark Button

AALBC.com's Thumper's Corner Discussion Board » Culture, Race & Economy - Archive 2007 » North and south: enlighten me! « Previous Next »

Author Message
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Latina_wi
Regular Poster
Username: Latina_wi

Post Number: 352
Registered: 08-2006

Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!)

Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 12:59 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

This question has been bothering me for some time and I think this is the best place to get it answered.

I have been to America many times and often over long periods. However, I personally don't believe that I have been there long enough to witness the supposed differences between the 'north and south'.

I have been to both the north and southern areas of America. But is 'southern hospitality' a reality? Are they really more old fashioned down south? And are they actually a lot more ruder, feistier and forward thinking up north?
And where does that leave the midwest?!

Enlighten me people!
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri

Post Number: 4708
Registered: 01-2006

Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!)

Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 01:19 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Different areas are different, it is true. Some places are fast paced and some are very laid back. And people tend to behave differently in different cities. But my own experience has always been that if I treat others in a cordial manner, they tend to recriprocate regardless of location, and most people are really very nice :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Chrishayden
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Chrishayden

Post Number: 4342
Registered: 03-2004

Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!)

Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 01:26 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

For the most part it is true. It is less true in the more urban areas in each part of the city, but more so in the small towns and rural areas.

People in the south tend to be more friendly and hospitable. They also tend to be more suspicious of outsiders and more violent. The more pronounced "Northern" behavior is on the East Coast, especially in the corridor stretching from Boston to Washington DC.

On the whole people from the Eastern Seaboard are more tolerant and cosmopolitan. On the other hand some of the most racist areas in the nation are in South Boston.

The Midwest. The Midwest is very big. That takes in a lot of area. That is Chicago, where they can be more Northern, and St. Louis, which is really part of the South though they try to go for midwestern, and lots of parts in between.

I would say that though you might make generalizations it is very difficult to type people by location. For instance Columbia Missouri is a college town. On the campus it is more liberal. In the town and surrounding it is not.

Then it depends upon the ethnic background. Jews in these areas are more cosmopolitan. I'd say Germans are not--

But you get some Southern Jews whose views are reactionary and some liberal Germans that are not.

Topics | Last Day | Last Week | Tree View | Search | Help/Instructions | Program Credits Administration

Advertise | Chat | Books | Fun Stuff | About AALBC.com | Authors | Getting on the AALBC | Reviews | Writer's Resources | Events | Send us Feedback | Privacy Policy | Sign up for our Email Newsletter | Buy Any Book (advanced book search)

Copyright © 1997-2008 AALBC.com - http://aalbc.com