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In reply to the discussion: Please feel free to nuke all of us Southerners...Drop a bomb on us redneck ignart Sutherners. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)First off, people from the South created and employ a special 'nickname' for non Southerners, 'Yankees' while there is no such term used in reverse. We say 'people from the South' or even 'Alabamans' or 'Floridians' but there is no cutesy term meaning 'resident of a place not the North' as you folks have with that 'Yankee' word.
Second, people from the South will themselves take part in the American tradition of ribbing other States and regions. My Southern cousins used to love to tell me that CA was 'like a bowl of granola, full of fruits flakes and nuts'. Cute, huh? Then they'd go on about Governor Moonbeam and such. Fruits and nuts.
So all States and regions engage in criticism and joking about the others. The South does it perhaps more than other regions, not less. Other places are far more often the targets, New Jersey gets endless mockery. Do you see New Jersey weeping into their grits about it?
Do you see the South and all who live there as above all criticism, for all time, while they are free to call me a Yankee fruit living in a granola bowl State? Is that the deal as you see it?