[quote]twojarslave wrote:
[quote]BPCorso wrote:
[quote]twojarslave wrote:
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Interesting you should point this out. Most of the most intensely racist people I have met have been from the Northeast. Maybe talking to someone from Mississippi gives them the impression that they can let the full flag fly but I have been legitimately uncomfortable about it. I think part of it is the Southeast has learned how to cohabitate a little better because we seem to be more intertwined in our daily life. We have a fringe that is extremely racist, typically a backwoods group, but it seems as if the “cultured” group from the NE are the ones who have the greatest level of vitriol.
Now blacks I don’t notice the regional differences. The differences there seem more related to urban or rural upbringing. [/quote]
Maine is as north and east as you can get and is ~97% white. Whether or not we are more racist than Mississippi is impossible to determine, as we lack the necessary array of skin colors to bring out the worst in people.
We definitely have our fair share of intensely racist people, and an encounter with a person with a southern accent could provide the outlet they’ve been missing for years to just let all the hate out, working under the assumption that a southern accent implies shared hatred of the others.
What we all seem to agree on in the Pine Tree State is that those subhuman Massholes need to learn how to drive on the turnpike. They are just terrible.
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I get miffed when people unfairly characterize the South as all backwards people. In my personal experience, the idea of Southern hospitality is a real thing and I haven’t seen that level of hospitality anywhere else in the US. No doubt parts of Mississippi are equivalent to a 3rd world country using objective measures. But there are good people and they have a wonderful culture. There are horrible people everywhere.
The educated in Mississippi often display less signs of overt racism than people from the Northeast, in my anecdotal experience. They are aware of their history and that effects how they act and talk. I went to a small private college that was full of very white and very rich kids. At the time it was top 5 in least diverse campuses and there was a lot of money, especially those from CT, NY, and NJ. College is the first place where people were openly dropping “niggers” in normal conversation. Not true hatred, more like juvenile joking. The school is in the pseudo-south but primarily comprised of students from the Mid Atlantic and Northeast. Boston and Philly have to be the most overtly racist cities that I have experience with.[/quote]
I spent nearly a year doing consulting work in Franklin, TN and I found the hospitality there to be quite genuine. It was very pleasant.
Prior to living in Maine I lived in Greenwich, CT for several years, which is just outside of NYC. There is a reason you never hear about NYC or New Jersey hospitality. I understand many people love that part of the world, but I would not take another job in that area for $500,000 per year. No thanks.
Maine is sort of different. Everyone here is friendly for the most part, but in a more reserved and less outgoing way than what you see in the south. Very much a live and let live attitude, and this reflected in our laws, very low crime and general way of life.
Of course, I was not born here, so in the eyes of natives I will always be “from away”, which carries a mostly benign sort of stigma to it.
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Where in Franklin TN?
