Issues with the modern US South

[Wormy]

I agree with your post but this made me laugh maniacally. But the focus on sports here is fucking insane. Like I get it as a hobby and a way to meet people. But football is unironically a way of life. Thank God that the more nerdy people down here are more or less indifferent to it and that they are easy to find if you know where to find them.

Likewise, I'm fine with athletics, and I even see it as a positive thing to be supported, but...goddam, I would love to see some sort of sociological project dissecting how it became the unironic second most important ritual outside of church services.

The South is awful, please don't move there.

It's like anywhere else, you just need to know the shitholes from the places that are actually sane. Knoxville Good. South of Myrtle Beach Good. Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia, VERY BAD. To cite some examples.

Southerners are dumber because they’ve historically have a high rate of parasites:

How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name pbs.org / archive​

Hookworms once sapped the American South of its health, yet few realize that they continue to afflict millions.
The culprit behind “the germ of laziness,” as the South’s affliction was sometimes called, was Necator americanus —the American murderer. Better known today as the hookworm, millions of those bloodsucking parasites lived, fed, multiplied, and died within the guts of up to 40% of populations stretching from southeastern Texas to West Virginia. Hookworms stymied development throughout the region and bred stereotypes about lazy, moronic Southerners.

Thankfully many of us took a de-wormer last year so expect the South to rise again soon.

I could only hope it was as simple as that...

man, i'm looking forward to moving back home to the south. i prefer the way it sucks there to the way it sucks where i'm at now.

What flavor of South are you going back to?

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

What flavor of South are you going back to?

the sweet, sweet taste of peaches and coca cola

 

[Sandraker]

-The young smart minds who can actually fix shit don't hang around, and I for one don't blame them because there is next to nothing for a young person to really do around aside from incredibly shit work. Or fuck. Or do drugs.

This part is a very common complaint from my part of the south and while the education you can get here is good, it can definitely turn into a trap real quick if you're not willing to settle down with whatever you got.

While I personally don't mind the slower pace I get plenty of conversations about moving along from older folks who see this area as more of a retirement home. I'd agree on that note since most young guys are fine with busting dishes in a tourist infested restaurant only to go home and smoke till the next shift if they're not one of the main methheads we get.

The culture of college students and the locals also draws some attention as pinked hair weirdos and local druggies don't mesh so it leads to the city keeping their out of state people happy while slowly pushing out the niggas into the outer cities with rising prices across the board for housing.

Don't think its all bad if you don't mind the heat, but if you want to actually do stuff best to pack your bags once you finish your 2 years of tech.