A PSA: Dear non-Southerners and non-Hillbillies...

[Unpaid Emotional Labourer]

if you stick out in any relatively minor way, you are never going to make it in the culture and you won't really be a part of it in any meaningful sense.

The culture here is designed to enforce this unspoken rule of homogeneity to a retarded degree. Do you like STEM topics and not sports? Geez, bro, that's a bit anti-social don't you think? Do you like anime (without any sort of fanservice or pandering to degeneracy. I'm talking like DBZ type shit), Japanese culture, video games, metal/hard rock that's a bit outside the norm but not complete noise? That's for children. Real men go fishing and drink with their buddies on the weekend all the time before going to the local college game and listen to shitty country music. It might be because I live in a place that's an intersection between the rural, suburban and urban parts of the South, but this has annoyed the ever-loving shit out of me and has made me want to leave this place like no other.

I was going to argue that I stuck out as a kid with weird interests and opinions, and nobody bothered me about it and I didn’t suffer for it in any way, but then I remembered I’m white, female, and was at the time a conventionally attractive teenager.

 

[AnOminous]

There's only one country that thought a 240mg oxycontin pill was a great idea, and that's the country I'm talking about.

What are you talking about? It's a fantastic idea. The only possible better idea would be a 1mg oxycontin pill marketed as the Widowmaker. Pussy.

 

[BiggerChungus]

I love where I live and I'm proud of general southern culture, but yeah, we're not all we're cracked up to be. Methheads and potheads everywhere, lots of genuinely dumb and ignorant hicks - though less hillbilly and more of wannabe thug wiggers, ironically - and even politically we're getting worse and worse. Besides West Virginia and Kentucky, pretty much every southern state's gotten flooded by people who can't even speak English and our politicians have become pozzed morons. And never forget, WingsofRedemption is a southerner. There's good people down here and I'd never wanna live anywhere else, but the idealistic image of the conservative and wise rural South is one that's, sadly, rapidly fading away.

 

[Certified_Autist]

the combination of the whole good ol' boy shit with frat culture is fucking grating and the personalities of the people here are either dull or infuriating for the most part, plus I have absolutely no chance with any of the women here since they are either shitlib thots or the 1950's housewife type of women who get scandalized by swear words on the caliber of "fuck".

In a sense, that's my problem with the South: it's TOO old-fashioned and yet the ways it's progressing are for the worse. I understand that tradition is tradition for a reason, but we don't need to be so bound to tradition that we can't improvise a little as the times change. Likewise, getting rid of tradition is absolute lunacy. But for some reason, it feels like the American South is trapped between these two worlds in the worst spot possible.

I grew up in the South, I strongly empathize with most of what you wrote but this part, especially the last sentence, is so damn true its not even funny.

I think a big part of it is that a lot of American history revolves around the South, so the South has had to confront its past in ways that other regions/subcultures haven't had to. This leads to the disjointed culture where they are desparate to move forward but can't let go of the past. The South is basically schizophrenic; a third wants the south to move forward no matter what, a third want it to remain in stasis forever, and the final third are apathetic/go along with whichever view is popular in their social circle.

That old marching tune goes "I wish I was in Dixie...."

Well, in which Dixie?

 

[Haint]

Damn right!

 

[millais]

I remember reading an old linguistics paper about how the Reconstruction South was ruined not just by carpetbaggers and freedmen, but also by the movement of the penniless, landless yeomanry of the Virginian/Carolinian piedmont and foothills into the other regions of the South in the decades after the war.

The linguistic researchers can track their spread across the Appalachians into the Deep South based on the dialect shift in each region to the more debased speech patterns characteristic to their kind.

The control group was the descendants of the Brasilian Confederados, who left before Southern speech was contaminated by the mountain speech.

Supposedly the antebellum Southern dialect bore a much closer resemblance to the Yankee dialect, and the reason why it sounds so different now is due largely to the post-war isolation and the pernicious influence of the mountain speech into all the major Southern dialects.

 

[smegma enthusiast]

Out of all Americans, which ones survive in an apocalypse? Sperg theory time.
Any major city Americans die. Miami drowns, NYC dies in a nigger fight, LA dies in a spic fight, Chicago also dies due to nigger fight, Phoenix burns alive. Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco all die due to retarded white faggots.
The South dies due to obesity, flooding, hurricanes, and meth addiction.
My theory is that rural Midwest and rural Northeast survive. California farmer spics survive too. Due to farming knowledge, gun ownership, and general no-bullshit attitude they have a meager, but peaceful existence.
Of course, this is just the contiguous US.
Nothing changes in Alaska.
Hawaii celebrates because it can be a country again after 120 years of being overthrown. The absolute monarchy resumes, China helpfully builds bridges and financial assistance. More Chinese people immigrate and infiltrate Hawaiian politics and infrastructure. Hawaii is overthrown after 5 years and immediately renamed to 可悲的失败者群岛.
All US territories die and are overtaken by China immediately, except for Puerto Rico because nobody gives a fuck.
Feel free to give your own thoughts. I enjoy a moderate amount of speculative autism.

 

[Wormy]

Out of all Americans, which ones survive in an apocalypse? Sperg theory time.
Any major city Americans die. Miami drowns, NYC dies in a nigger fight, LA dies in a spic fight, Chicago also dies due to nigger fight, Phoenix burns alive. Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco all die due to retarded white faggots.
The South dies due to obesity, flooding, hurricanes, and meth addiction.
My theory is that rural Midwest and rural Northeast survive. California farmer spics survive too. Due to farming knowledge, gun ownership, and general no-bullshit attitude they have a meager, but peaceful existence.
Of course, this is just the contiguous US.
Nothing changes in Alaska.
Hawaii celebrates because it can be a country again after 120 years of being overthrown. The absolute monarchy resumes, China helpfully builds bridges and financial assistance. More Chinese people immigrate and infiltrate Hawaiian politics and infrastructure. Hawaii is overthrown after 5 years and immediately renamed to 可悲的失败者群岛.
All US territories die and are overtaken by China immediately, except for Puerto Rico because nobody gives a fuck.
Feel free to give your own thoughts. I enjoy a moderate amount of speculative autism.

Eh, I've heard crazier.

 

[Bonesjones]

The south is terrible and you faggots need to stop moving here.

 

[Banquet Meal]

I never knew there was anything different about being southern, until i moved up north...there is nothing more embarrassing than the person to whom you are speaking asking you to repeat yourself over and over again, finally asking you to spell whatever it is you are saying, and then, when all else fails, locating a token southerner, (when taking care of business in public or on the phone) the idea of having any sort of "accent" never occurred to me, and now that i am out of that tornado ridden hellscape, im reminded of it daily. either people act like they cant understand me, or they think its "cute". stupid niggers.

 

[nekrataal]

Say what you will, but rednecks are the last bastion of true masculinity in the west.

 

[AnOminous]

I never knew there was anything different about being southern, until i moved up north...there is nothing more embarrassing than the person to whom you are speaking asking you to repeat yourself over and over again, finally asking you to spell whatever it is you are saying, and then, when all else fails, locating a token southerner, (when taking care of business in public or on the phone) the idea of having any sort of "accent" never occurred to me, and now that i am out of that tornado ridden hellscape, im reminded of it daily. either people act like they cant understand me, or they think its "cute". stupid niggers.

I dunno, unless you literally talk in Gullah or some incredibly dense dialect that is barely mutually intelligible with standard English, they're the ones who should be embarrassed. Southerners often talk slowly enough that if you can't figure it out, you're probably the slow one.

Say what you will, but rednecks are the last bastion of true masculinity in the west.

Speaking of that term, Randy Newman's "Rednecks" should probably be the theme of this thread. It hits all the points raised.

 

[Banquet Meal]

I dunno, unless you literally talk in Gullah or some incredibly dense dialect that is barely mutually intelligible with standard English, they're the ones who should be embarrassed. Southerners often talk slowly enough that if you can't figure it out, you're probably the slow one.

Speaking of that term, Randy Newman's "Rednecks" should probably be the theme of this thread. It hits all the points raised.

right? i always try and speak correctly, i dont throw in things like "aint" or "yoins", so i have no clue what these people are on about, but definitely has made me self conscious, to say the least.

 

[Occam's Spork]

Technical southerner checking in to thread about the south. Lived in the Carolinas since 1989. The south is a nice place still, but seeing it as some bastion of conservatism or a holding tank of such saving the country or some shit like that is ridiculous. I've been all over the south, from east Texas to north Florida to southern Virginia, and it's a complete mixed bag. It's certainly more conducive to a type of conservative than it would ever be to what passes for a liberal these days, but in some ways it's too liberal. Mainly in rural areas, because nobody cares or doesn't have the funds to pay legal fees against your ass if you get so fucked up on meth and shrooms that you burn down your shitty old tract house from the 30's and come back to steal the still hot copper to sell for scrap for more meth. The rural south is no fucking joke. If you hear people say there is no hope down here in smaller towns they are 100% on the money. Nobody cares about old mill towns down here, and that's not even getting into the beautiful human hellscape that is western appalachia, especially eastern Kentucky. 20 years ago that area still looked like the 50's, but horribly decrepit. I can't imagine what it looks like today.

That said, the south is still a pretty awesome place. Hot, but generally full of good people in the smaller towns around major cities, and the hospitality and charm is still there, especially in the deep south.

Stick to the cities if you are a transplant from some pure blue city on the coasts and have left wing ideals. Although I would prefer that you just stay and shit your own nest, and I say that as a center left dude. The south isn't very cosmopolitan outside of Charlotte, Atlanta and maybe Jacksonville and no one really wants that here.

I don't include Texas cities, because even though Dallas and Austin are sorta in the south, they aren't really southern in culture, and I don't consider much south of Tallahassee southern either, because that's utterly different, and when you hit south Florida, it's basically like LA with more humidity. I also don't really include New Orleans, because that place, while very very southern, is basically an entity unto itself. There's really no other place like it, and in the whole of the south, it's an outlier. Yes there are other bigish cities down here, and it's not like the don't count, but they aren't huge like Atlanta.

 

[Broken Pussy]

I dunno, unless you literally talk in Gullah or some incredibly dense dialect that is barely mutually intelligible with standard English, they're the ones who should be embarrassed. Southerners often talk slowly enough that if you can't figure it out, you're probably the slow one.

Speaking of that term, Randy Newman's "Rednecks" should probably be the theme of this thread. It hits all the points raised.

I don’t know. My mom is from Southeastern Kentucky, and sometimes I don’t even know what she’s saying.

 

[Stormy Daniel's Lawyer]

I'm from the South, I live in the mountains and I love it here, most of the time. I have visited almost every major city in the country. I have been to Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Fransicko, Seattle, Houston, Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, etc... None of those places could ever come close to my little patch of dirt..

Sure, there's a litany of issues in my neck of the woods. The drug epidemic hit my area and surrounding areas like a nuclear weapon. Our local governments and medical infrastructures could not compete against the crush of opioids that flooded our towns. There's probably very few people that doesn't know someone or is kin to someone addicted or dead from opioids.

There's plenty of White Trash All-Stars mucking up our area with their offspring. And yes, they travel around in $27.00 cars with very few working lights and windshields. They keep the oil companies flush with cash as most of their vehicles guzzle oil like a fiend. They sport rebel flag and barbed-wire tattoos as a right of passage, along with their daily abuse of recreational drugs and alcohol.

Our local Walmart's are the prime destination getaway from a shitty life at home, and its full of obese Welfare Moms getting their free lunch from the taxpayers. Oh, and since they never heard of daycare, they bring their brood along for good measure.

Our schools are mostly Title 1, and are filled to the rooftops with Mulatos and a rising population of immigrants from the Unwashed Regions of the World.

Now the good shit about my area...

The good people living here, and they, by far out number the fuck-ups, are god-fearing, salt of the Earth, decent people. They would give you the shirt off their backs. When I got COVID last September, and spent a month in ICU, my neighbors mowed my yard, they called my wife every day, brought food to our house, and I had 100's of total strangers lifting me up in prayer in churches in our area that I couldn't find on a map.

We have plenty of culture here as well. World Class Barbecue, live-action theatres, museums, hiking, hunting, fishing, top-rated colleges and universities, etc...

The cost of living is great, however, the housing is getting stupid high due to folks from the North retiring down here. Ironic?

Yes, we have guns, lots and lots of guns here.. The folks I know own no less than 5 firearms, as does yours truly.

Lastly, I want to say that even with all the bad in my area, I will die here, and die proudly knowing I spent the best part of my life, stuck in the slow lane on a farm far away from the dirty, rotten streets of any city in this country. A place where people wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. A city were your life is worth what you have in your pockets after some nigger puts two in your head. Where the streets are filled with literal human shit, used needles, and strung-out zombies slowly killing themselves.

So go ahead, take a shit on the South, I could care less what anyone thinks. I fucking love it here, and when the shit hits the fan, and you fuckers are starving to death, we will be fine as frog hair. We grow our own food, smoke, and have you outnumbered in the firearm department.

 

[Puff]

The Scots-Irish have been a malignant cancer upon this country ever since the border reivers came over from Ulster nearly 300 years ago.

Your rosy eyed views of my people are just a whiny and edgy cope coming from an ungrateful Zoomer incel who likes to LARP as a Puritan on the internet.

We are not and will never be White and for fuck's sake, we invented nigger culture and hillbilly culture. The country is literally better off without us.

Let it be known now and for all time that General William Sherman and the Baldwin-Felts Detectives both did nothing wrong.

Sherman's actions against the Confederacy in Georgia and Baldwin-Felts's actions against the UMWA rednecks in West Virginia and in Eastern Kentucky were completely and fully justified righteous acts against a malignant and savage race, one that has been both a threat and a disgrace to White America.

The Scots-Irish people are more malignant and cancerous than even the Jew, and the worst part is that the vast majority of border reivers are too low IQ to even realize they're not truly White.

At least the Jew is sapient enough that he knows it's just a grift.

Never forget that it was the Scots-Irish border reiver who taught the nigger their vile ways.

Appalachia Delenda Est

Tried and true border reiver stock (have genealogy to confirm) from south-eastern Appalachia here. Can confirm. I'm from the first generation of my family without at least one murder since at least 1900 and we're the RESPECTABLE family (no drugs, I guess). We've lived in the same county since at least a century before that.
Nobody should move here. The methheads will shoot you and rape your dog and I'll pay some local boys to key your car to say "go home yankee" or the like.
The mountains are shit, but they're mine and you can't have them.

 

[AnOminous]

Sure, there's a litany of issues in my neck of the woods. The drug epidemic hit my area and surrounding areas like a nuclear weapon. Our local governments and medical infrastructures could not compete against the crush of opioids that flooded our towns. There's probably very few people that doesn't know someone or is kin to someone addicted or dead from opioids.

It is often meth too. You can recognize when you're in a meth-ravaged area when all the property cleanup businesses that specialize in cleaning up properties between buyers advertise "meth lab cleanup" as one of their specialties on the sign in front.

 

[Puff]

It is often meth too. You can recognize when you're in a meth-ravaged area when all the property cleanup businesses that specialize in cleaning up properties between buyers advertise "meth lab cleanup" as one of their specialties on the sign in front.

The Ag teacher does that as a side hustle.

 

[Wormy]

It is often meth too. You can recognize when you're in a meth-ravaged area when all the property cleanup businesses that specialize in cleaning up properties between buyers advertise "meth lab cleanup" as one of their specialties on the sign in front.

One other one that's more subtle; count up the number of businesses who have Bible verses on their advertisements but are not related to any church functions. Right across from my office there's a fucking sign for stump grinding but the bulk of the sign is one big Bible and verses along with "AMERICA! TURN BACK TO GOD!"