Southerners the only Authentic Culture of America?

**PeacefulCaribbeanDutch** · 08-09-2012, 04:16 AM

When you visit a country like England or Spain the most authentic culture is that practiced in the small towns, so I ask is the most authentic culture of America the southern village culture?

It seems like it to me, and I really don't understand what the hate from city folk towards them are.

Is it the same in europe? Do City folk hate town folk?

**Mechanolater** · 08-09-2012, 04:18 AM

City folk don't hate southerners. Maybe southern city folk hate southern rural folk, but northerners generally don't dislike southerners.

**Stefan** · 08-09-2012, 04:22 AM

I think it's the opposite. Country folk dislike city folk very, very much. I've seen it in my family, and I'm not a southerner. This happens in Pennsylvania. It's natural though. When it comes down to it, eventually these groups recognize the similarities and cooperate.

**PeacefulCaribbeanDutch** · 08-09-2012, 04:24 AM

Originally Posted by Stefan

I think it's the opposite. Country folk dislike city folk very, very much. I've seen it in my family, and I'm not a southerner. This happens in Pennsylvania. It's natural though. When it comes down to it, eventually these groups recognize the similarities and cooperate.

this is odd because the Pennsylvanians I have met seemed to have been the most mild mannered and naive people in america, they really don't know how fucked up the rest of the country is so they are really nice.

**Stefan** · 08-09-2012, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Snug

this is odd because the Pennsylvanians I have met seemed to have been the most mild mannered and naive people in america, they really don't know how fucked up the rest of the country is so they are really nice.

They're nice as long as you plan to leave (the country folk.) They have very little patience with people from the cities, if there is constant exposure. There is a particular country lifestyle that can't be emulated by people with a city lifestyle without a lot of practice. On the other hand, people from the country can fit in fine in the city, or at least put up the pretense.

**~~Contra Mundum~~** · 08-10-2012, 03:52 PM

The South is no more rural than the Midwest or west. There really are cities in the South. I know, shocking.

**~~Contra Mundum~~** · 08-10-2012, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by Planeless Earhart

City folk don't hate southerners. Maybe southern city folk hate southern rural folk, but northerners generally don't dislike southerners.

LOL, say what? The media in NYC despises Southerners. Even Bill Clinton was treated harshly in NYC during the 1992 Democratic Primary. The media there portrayed him as some ignorant hick.

**Leadchucker** · 08-10-2012, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by Stefan

They're nice as long as you plan to leave.....They have very little patience with people from the cities, if there is constant exposure......

This is the case at the South Jersey Shore. All summer long there is a huge influx of city slickers,locally called shoobies, that pack the Shore towns. The name shoobie comes from the old day when day tripper tourist came by train and brought their lunches in a shoe box but has stuck to this day. It's a love/hate realtionship as the Shore economy depends on the money from tourist, but we don't want them here any longer than possible. We love September when most of them pack up and go back to the city giving our beaches and towns back and there are no more traffic jams

**Mechanolater** · 08-10-2012, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Contra Mundum

LOL, say what? The media in NYC despises Southerners. Even Bill Clinton was treated harshly in NYC during the 1992 Democratic Primary. The media there portrayed him as some ignorant hick.

Media =/= average folk of the city. I haven't met anyone who takes the redneck stereotype seriously, and a lot of us have a romanticized view of the south. Large estates, old families, etc. May be as unrealistic as the redneck stereotype, but it isn't negative.

**~~Contra Mundum~~** · 08-10-2012, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by Planeless Earhart

Media =/= average folk of the city. I haven't met anyone who takes the redneck stereotype seriously, and a lot of us have a romanticized view of the south. Large estates, old families, etc. May be as unrealistic as the redneck stereotype, but it isn't negative.

That may be true, especially with the older generation that grew up on 'Gone With the Wind'. People outside the South see it in extremes because of the media. Southerners are shown living on large plantations or dirt poor living in trailers, with the latter being the more common stereotype pushed by the media. The vast majority of white Southerners are just middle class.

Anyway, it's good to see that some people see through media stereotyping.