The Southern States of America have some of the most beautiful landscapes and climates this country has to offer. It also harbors some of the worst people and culture this country has to offer.

Having traveled all over the US, being to every state other than Hawaii and having lived in a total of seven, four of them being Southern States, I’ve had the chance to see what the country is like, it’s various cultures and the people that make up those cultures, and have a developed a strong opinion from my experiences.

That opinion: Fuck the South.

I vividly remember moving from a North Western state to a southern state as a child and experiencing the utter culture shock from the move.

In the NW, I was welcomed for who I was. In the South, I was not.

In the NW, I was able to be who I wanted to be. In the South, I had to be like them.

In the NW, you were judged by your character. In the south, you were judged by the cost and size of your material items.

This is not Red vs Blue States. This is the South vs the rest of the United States.

The utter amount of corruption in Southern governments from the Governors offices’ down to the local police departments is both appalling, but extremely apparent if you just stopped to actually take a look.

There’s a massive amount of suffering from those in poverty in Southern States because of the rugged individualism in the culture and the utter lack of empathy towards those they do not know. As long as they get theirs, that’s all they care about. In the Southern Culture, the mentality is not “we’re in this together”, it’s “not my problem if it doesn’t affect me”.

The South = “Me, Myself, and I” and always has been. Disagree? Then how else can you explain their history if not for their own selfish reasons?

Everyone’s main focus is themselves and their immediate family/friends. Everyone else just exists (barely) and if their existence is worse than the Southerners, then that’s their problem and the southerner will not lose any sleep over it.

The South’s education is abysmal.

During my time of puberty I was living in southern states.

I had no idea what sexual intercourse was or how it was performed until I was 14 because my health classes sex education was “abstinence only”.

I learned by watching pornography.

I didn’t know about the female reproductive system or how it worked until I was 16 when my girlfriend told me about it. When we talked about sexual intercourse and the reproductive systems of both men and women, we talked about solely about STDs and how losing your virginity causes you to lose a part of yourself (this was an actual lesson in the sixth grade, I shit you not. My teacher also talked about how pornography created Ted Bundy. Again, I shit you not).

It’s not at all surprising that teen pregnancies ravage southern states. How could it not? They purposely keep teenagers in the dark as a form of control. And if a teenager breaks out of that control and gets pregnant, then their punishment is to have the child and be a teenaged parent. But this isn’t surprising. The culture of the south has always been about controlling others. They literally betrayed and fought against the United States because of it. And even after they lost, they still could not accept losing control. The KKK was formed, Jim Crow laws established, and they repealed the rights of their fellow Americans. And this mentality still affects Southern Culture to this day with their weaponization of religion and identity politics. (Did you know the Department of Justice was created just to fight the KKK because they were such a big fucking problem?)

Southern culture is also a very cruel and hateful one. (I know! That seems ridiculous to think! But is it when compared to the rest of American Values?)

“What about Southern hospitality?” You may ask.

This is true. The South is known for being polite.

But being polite is not the same as being kind.

Politeness is the social norm of the south, but kindness is not.

Southerners only take kindness at face value. It’s not done out of the kindness of the heart, it is done out of egotism and the need to feel morally superior than those around them. Hence, they’re polite. Not kind.

In my experience, the southerner is the first to judge, but the last to take any criticism.

I could go on and on with little intricate criticisms like the priority of athletics over education (SEC is absolute proof of this), or how you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a picture of a village in a developing nation and small town in rural Mississippi, but I don’t want to be here writing all night.

Obviously the world is not black and white. I know not every southerner is a bad person. I know you can’t put everyone in a singular box as every person is different. But when it comes to defining the culture of the American South, it is an utter embarrassment of the United States and against what our forefathers wanted the country to represent. Freedom and Tolerance of others (Benjamin Franklin actively pushed for the tolerance of other religions in the US. Would the average Southerner do that?)

Our biggest mistake as a country was not completing the Reconstruction of the American South. It is because of this failure you still see confederate flags on the back of their trucks and monuments of traitors in the center of their towns. And now the democracy of the United States is at risk because of it.

Fuck. The. South.

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    9 months ago

    Quoting your original comment…

    “This is not Red vs Blue States”…

    Fucking hypocrite, go shove your opinion up your ass.

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      Dude, he didn’t bring it up. He was only asking questions.

      The Southern states are red states and Republicans are notoriously hateful of those that are different from them. They’re against helping their fellow man. It’s not a coincidence. If you can challenge any of these facts with real data, I’d love to see it.

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        That’s literally quoting their 8th original paragraph/sentence/section, whatever you wanna call it. They conflict their own original post.

        Strikes me as a troll post to stir shit amongst the rest of us. Don’t fall for it.

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          I’m going to go ahead and quote myself by repeating that he didn’t bring it up and he was only asking questions.

          He’s allowed to do that. That’s how you learn.

          Also, frankly, he hasn’t said anything even remotely controversial.

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            You didn’t read the entire post did you? I literally quoted it, word for word. 8th section of OP’s post, word for word…

            “This isn’t Red vs Blue States. This is the South vs the rest of the United States.”

            Please try reading the entire thing before attempting to argue. OP not only brought it up verbatim, they also proceed to deny it in comments.

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      It’s not.

      There are many red states, some I have lived in (ID, IA) that are just fine. Sure, I disagree with a decent amount of people who live in those states, but it’s not conservatism that I have trouble with. It’s the culture of the south that I cannot stand and am just stating my opinion which now I know is not a very unpopular one on this site now.

      Quit being so grumpy crouchy, my jolly ol friend 👉😎👉

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        I don’t identify as a state, I live in a state. I don’t identify as red/blue/left/right, etc, regardless whatever color or side my state is considered. All that mess is about the political views of the politicians running the state. I’m not a politician, and I rightly do not even care about politics in the first place.

        That has little to do with my point, OP themself initially said it’s not about red vs blue, so when did politics come into this? Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s when OP contradicted themself in the comments by mentioning and complaining about southern state colors.

        It doesn’t matter what region you go to, there will be some nice people, some mean ones, some smart ones, some dumb ones, etc. That’s not even politics, that’s just observing the differences between people.

        My first comment to OP attempted to express my nicer understanding side, while also being disappointed with their broad expression of hatred, and I got downvoted and criticized for that. Okay, there’s a flip side to every coin ya know. If trying to be nice and understanding doesn’t get anywhere, then what’s the point of even trying to be nice?

        I hope you at least kinda understand where I’m coming from with this comment, and I hope you have a good day.

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      That’s not what they espouse, but when someone offers it up they are allowed to agree without being a hypocrite. You’re the one showing your whole ass by going for a nitpick you lil nonce

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        That’s literally quoting their 8th original paragraph/sentence/section, whatever you wanna call it. They conflict their own original post.

        Strikes me as a troll post to stir shit amongst the rest of us. Don’t fall for it.

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            Yes. You can filter or block entire communities, instances, or users. It’s quite handy. The exact methodology will depend on your app, though.

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                Oh I know you asked tongue-in-cheek. Still, I’d hate for you to suffer any more inanity due to ACTUALLY not knowing the function was there.